JointMedica & the Hip Resurfacing Comeback
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Hip resurfacing was written off after the metal-on-metal era — but the patients kept coming back happy. Two surgeons who never stopped offering it explain what changed, and what a vitamin E polyethylene bearing does to the failure mode that ended it.
For hip surgeons weighing whether resurfacing belongs in their toolkit, and for anyone interested in where orthopedic implant innovation actually comes from.
Sharat Kusuma left clinical practice to lead JointMedica as CEO, developing the PolyMotion resurfacing device. Craig Della Valle, of Rush University Medical Center in…
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