Hip treatments

To recover patients from hip abnormalities, various choices of treatments are available considering their conditions as well as severity. In short, there are 2 types of methods for hip treatments as follows:

Non-surgical hip treatments

Patients with non-severe conditions do not require hip surgery for treatment. Possible treatments are as follows:

Medication: painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs will be prescribed under supervision of a medical specialist. Self-prescription may lead to overdosing which causes complications
Analgesic injection: pain relieve injection will be considered for cases with severe pain that interrupts a regular daily life

Surgical hip treatments

If the patient suffers from more serious conditions or non-surgical treatments do not alleviate the symptoms, the doctor might consider surgery as the better solution. Examples of surgical hit treatments are as follows:

Robotic-assisted joint replacement: this technology helps the surgeons increase accuracy and efficiency of the surgery.
Hip Arthroscopy: surgeons will generally utilize this method with patients with mild symptoms or less severe partial conditions
Osteotomy: this surgery requires complicated methods to perform, suitable for patients with partial hip osteoarthritis or with a previous record of bone fractures.
Partial or total hip replacement surgery: this method is recommended for hip deformity or with severe pain that disturbs the patient’s daily routine. Partial or total hip replacement surgery is a commonly chosen treatment for many patients because their leg’s length and mobility after surgery is almost as normal as they used to be. Moreover, it takes them less hospitalization period and recovery time after hip replacement.

Surgical hip treatment is not what you should be afraid of, prolonging your pain is. Before your pain ruins your daily life more, meet a medical specialist in bones and joints and get treated through a proper process to give back your quality life.

What’s great about kdms Hospital hip and knee treatments?

It is important for us to involve our patients in choosing their own treatments, both surgical and non- surgical. At kdms Hospital, a top orthopedic hospital in Southeast Asia, our medical specialists will be by your side co-designing all your treatment processes. No matter if you are a hip osteoarthritis patient who seeks choices other than hip surgery or a knee osteoarthritis patient traveling to Thailand for knee replacement surgery who expects an optimal outcome, you can discuss it with our medical specialists before getting through treatments and recovery for the best results and for your relief.

Our hospital provides you top orthopedic specialists for hip and knee pain in Thailand, as well as rehabilitation medicine practitioners, highly productive devices in scanning damages of the knees (MRI), specialized physical therapy, and active physiotherapy.

In summary, treating your knees and hips at kdms Hospital results in better quality of life. Beyond curing health problems, our treatments give back all patients the power to move forward toward their desired life goals. It is our resolution, to “Strengthen Possibilities: Empowering All Movement”.