Surgeons find a rise in metal ion levels over time in patients receiving uncemented metal-on-polyethylene hip arthroplasties. This highlights a need to review follow-up protocols for patients receiving any modular metal #implants ow.ly/Ccs650AKWTh Caroline Dover Peter Craig

In an environment with appropriate infrastructure, patient selection, isolation, screening, and testing, elective orthopaedic surgery is safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated with high patient satisfaction. online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/full/10.13… Bone & Joint Open #COVID19 #Orthopaedics

Achieved by making sensible decisions as part of a team with a unified philosophy. It’s not rocket surgery. The impact of this, worldwide, on potential reduction in revision rates and lifetime costs are fairly clear to see.

Early evening cycle. Hard to believe Twyford Down M3 cutting is nearly 28 years old.

Delighted to see #JointSchoolApp ft. in the The Guardian #ArthritisAndYou campaign! In fantastic company too! 🌟 Sue Brown (also on bluesky) ARMA Dr. Dale Webb (he/him) @NASS_ASone NASS Bob Handley BOA NRAS Arthritis Action CCAA - Kids With Arthritis (JIA) Good Boost #selfcare #arthritis

Overall, total hip #arthroplasty has a relatively low complication rate. However, surgeons find the posterior approach had a significantly lower overall complication rate compared with the anterior approach, with an equal #dislocation rate ow.ly/7BDH50BUp5B #hipsurgery

😊🤓 All thanks to our many excellent guests! ❤️ Prof Tim Board Shaun Ryder Post Op Home Physio @louisegranthip David Barrett Dr Arj Imbuldeniya Jeremy Latham Rahul Patel Simon Fleming 🛠 Alex Dunin @DannyGreevesBMW Dr Anushka Aubeelack, now on 🦋 & more!

Cell therapies hold significant promise, however, despite advances in #research, there is growing concern about the increasing number of clinical centres making unwarranted claims or performing risky biological procedures ow.ly/GuvR50C2Vx2 #stemcells Iain Murray

So sad. Possibly the worst thing we ever did was name our surgery ‘elective’. It makes it sound expendable. Living with severe #hip and #knee arthritis is awful yet there is a ‘cure’. The NHS needs to protect its elective surgery with green sites. #medtwitter #orthotwitter

Still the one. #itjustworks

Robotic-arm assisted total #hip #arthroplasty (THA) is associated with improved accuracy in restoring the native centre of rotation, better preservation of combined offset & more precise acetabular component positioning compared with manual THA ow.ly/N7bt50Cz4dV #openaccess

New NHS England waiting list data shows trauma & orthopaedic patients are worst affected – 35K ppl waiting 1yr+, 244K ppl waiting 18 wks+. In October, ortho got to 63% of normal activity, less than any other surgical specialty. Our analysis here: boa.ac.uk/waitingtimes

"Robotic-arm assisted THA is associated with improved precision in achieving acetabular component positioning within the combined safe zones of Lewinnek et al and Callanan et al compared with conventional manual THA" ow.ly/6LEy50CLIEn #hip #arthroplasty Prof Fares Haddad

"...there is growing concern about the increasing number of clinical centres around the world that are making unwarranted claims or are performing risky biological procedures" ow.ly/ZTgd50D65NE Iain Murray Jorge Chahla, MD, PhD Rachel M. Frank, MD Nicolas S. Piuzzi, MD Bert Mandelbaum, MD #cells #ortho

Great work from Liam Yapp in Bone & Joint Open : During the 🦠pandemic in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #TKA and #THA volume has fallen by 61% and 54%, respectively. Working at 120% of normal it will take over *4yrs* to eliminate the deficit for #knees and #Hips in #Scotland online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/full/10.13…

A third of patients waiting for Total Hip Replacement are in a state worse than death. They can be helped with surgery. This new study from The Bone & Joint Journal shows twice as many patients are in this position as a year ago. Here is our joint statement with BOA @baskonline

UK surgeons report that the rate of postoperative COVID-19 following elective hip and knee arthroplasty was < 1% during the first wave & the overall mortality rate secondary to COVID-19 was also low (0.09%) ow.ly/qPTX50Em2nZ #COVID19 #arthroplasty

92,000 patients on our NHS waiting lists for orthopaedic surgery! Estimates of £200m and four years running at 120% to get back to pre-covid situation. #COVID19 #orthotwitter #medtwitter

Please see this excellent response from BOA NJR on a recent study regarding orthopaedic surgery. We fully support the response and reassure patients that our surgeons offer extremely well proven treatments. boa.ac.uk/resources/poli…

The UK is, yet again, facing widespread cancellations of elective surgery. Forever seen as the easy target and release valve at times of pressure. Our patients are suffering, mentally as well as physically and so are those around them.