FAQs

Hip pain limits your mobility and makes it difficult to perform everyday tasks. At Elite Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, we perform hip replacement operations to correct long-term, severe damage and help you lead a pain-free life. With our help, you can get back to your desired lifestyle as soon as possible. Our board-certified hip replacement [...]

Most hip replacements will last between 15-20 years; however, factors like age, weight, lifestyle, and osteoporosis can affect the longevity of your hip replacement. 

The team at Elite Sports Medicine + Orthopedics provides you with instructions on how to recover from hip replacement surgery, including pain management, wound care, diet, and activity recommendations. Physical therapy and rehabilitation is an essential part of a successful recovery from any type of surgery. Most people can resume light activities, such as climbing [...]

Elite's hip replacement surgeons always consider conservative treatments before recommending surgery.  Hip replacement surgery may be right for you if you have hip pain and limited mobility due to arthritis or another condition that doesn’t respond to non-surgical treatments like physical therapy.

Before hip replacement surgery, the Elite hip replacement surgeon perform a comprehensive physical exam and review your medical history. They may order blood tests and take an on-site imaging test like an X-ray. During the procedure, you’re asleep under general anesthesia. Your hip replacement surgeon may perform a posterior or anterior approach to hip replacement.  [...]

Arthritis is the leading cause of long-term hip pain and disability. Elite's Nashville hip replacement surgeons use hip replacement surgery to treat many types of hip arthritis, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and post-traumatic arthritis. Other conditions that might need hip replacement surgery include severe hip fractures and osteonecrosis. Also called avascular necrosis, osteonecrosis involves reduced [...]