Orthopedics Highlights

Recovering from hip replacement surgery can be a long and difficult journey, but worth it in the end. Learn about some of the things you can expect when you need to have your hip replaced.

You average 1000 to 3000 steps every day. For people suffering from knee problems, every single step can be extremely painful. Find out about a new procedure helping people live pain free almost instantly.

Every day in the U.S., there are 25,000 ankle sprains. Those sprains can lead to more chronic and painful problems for some people. Now, a new kind of graft is helping them when nothing else works.

A college student is one of very few to undergo a new procedure that's taking the technology of transplants to a new level. You'll see firsthand how her new hand is working.

200,000 people will have hip replacement surgery this year. Until now, getting the right fit was just an educated guessing game for surgeons. Now, there's a new way to mistake-proof the operation.

Instead of fusing joints and making them stiff, doctors are testing a new generation of implants that gets patients up and moving again.

Surgeons are giving amputees new options beyond prosthetics. This procedure gives a soldier a new hand, using a unique approach to lower the risk of rejection.

From the weekend warrior to the Olympic athlete, sports are hard on the knees. The newest treatment for knee pain is a cartilage transplant.

Two-million people visit the doctor every year because of pain from ankle arthritis or fractures. For some, ankle fusion was the only option to ease the pain, but it made the ankle stiff. A personalized ankle replacement could be the answer for those who

A new invention could change the billion dollar bone grafting business forever. How researchers are using material you can find in the carpet padding to make new bone.

A new twist on a technique used to help cancer patients is getting people with bad hips out of wheelchairs and walking again.

This doctor says many of the quarter million spinal fusions done every year in this country should never have happened! Meet the first woman to have her fusion reversed and see how it changed her life.

Meet a doctor who says many people with arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome may be misdiagnosed. He discovered a new type of injury that's impacting professional and everyday athletes.

Judy, a 53-year-old mother of two and grandmother of three, was rear-ended in a car collision, and the impact caused a delayed reaction that ultimately dislocated the base of her skull from her cervical spine. Watch her amazing survival story.

Judy, a 53-year-old mother of two and grandmother of three, was rear-ended in a car collision, and the impact caused a delayed reaction that ultimately dislocated the base of her skull from her cervical spine. Judy underwent an extremely risky surgery to have her skull reattached to her spine. A year-and-a-half after her surgery, Judy joins The Doctors to discuss how her life has changed since the operation.