During a total hip replacement, your surgeon will perform the following steps: The biggest difference between an anterior and posterior hip replacement is where your surgeon will make the incision ...

Savya Thakkar, an orthopedic surgeon and expert in minimally invasive and robotic-assisted total joint replacements ...

It’s called a direct anterior total hip arthroplasty ... Surgeons make a small incision about three to six inches long near the front of the hip. Guided by real-time x-rays, they move ...