People who underwent hip replacement surgeries would attest that recovery and rehabilitation is never easy for them. Having chronic pain after surgery then is unwelcome. Orthopedic surgeons claim that previous damage on the hip joint account for the pain and it is being compounded by the hip procedure. Unfortunately for those who have received the hip implants manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics, they would have to suffer from more complications due to the inherent flaws found in two of its AS...

DePuy Orthopaedics, a division of Johnson & Johnson, issued a hip replacement recall in August of 2010 for the company’s Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) Hip Resurfacing System and ASR XL Acetabular total hip replacement, consequently due to data linking these products with substantially high failure rates. A serious condition that has added to the suffering of hip replacement recipients is metallosis.

 

Metallosis results from metal-on-metal friction of the hip implant causing release of ...