All About Hip Replacement: a Patient's Guide
Publisher: Oxfrod University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Melbourne
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 179
Description: The book records the experiences of fourteen patients, including troubles with old hips. deciding to replace them, finding surgeons and hospitals and preparations for operations. It describes patients' hopes, and concerns with medical advice from surgeons, rheumatologists, physiotherapists, nurses and occupational therapists. The book is intended for patients and medical staff involved with changing lives around the world.