Thanks to Cutting-Edge Anterior Hip Replacement Surgery at University Orthopaedic Associates (UOA)

“’I’ll take that (UOA) staff over the ER any day!” exclaims Stephen Russell, a 71-year-old from Somerset, New Jersey. That’s exactly what Russell was thinking during the painful 24-hour period after a fall that broke his hip. It takes a huge amount of faith to hold off on immediate medical attention with a broken hip, but that’s just the amount of faith that Russell had in the staff at University Orthopaedic Associates.

This faith was based on Russell’s personal experiences with the doctors, specifically Dr. Timothy Leddy, with whom Russell had undergone three previous procedures. This time around, it was Dr. Stephen Kayiaros who was able to help him.

With an anterior incision, Dr. Kayiaros made his way into the hip where he performed a total replacement. In the traditional posterior incision operation, the surgeon has to cut through muscles and detach them from the hip joint. The anterior incision is smaller than the posterior one and allows the surgeon to access the hip joint between muscles without detaching them. This allows for a much quicker recovery time, as the muscle does not need to heal and the infrastructure surrounding the replaced joint is largely intact, allowing patients to put their full weight on it sooner and decreasing the risk of dislocation.

Relates Dr. Kayiaros, “I was amazed when I saw Mr. Russell at his postoperative visit just about a month after his surgery. He was walking without a cane, had no pain, and was itching to get back on his bike and drive a car again. He didn’t even look like he just had a hip replacement. The speed at which the patients recover from anterior approach hip replacement never ceases to amaze me. That is the one of the many advantages to this cutting-edge technique. The dislocation rate with this approach is very low too. This is especially beneficial in patients, such as Mr. Russell, who have hip replacements performed after a hip fracture, because the number of dislocations with traditional hip replacement has historically been higher in this cohort.”

Two weeks after this appointment with Dr. Kayiaros, Stephen Russell was back on his bike, enjoying the outdoors with a whole new hip joint, all thanks to the amazing anterior approach hip replacement done by Dr. Stephen Kayiaros.