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If you are suffering with osteoarthritis in your hip, you are probably frustrated with the limited medical options available to you.  Pain management doesn’t offer a permanent solution and often leaves you still suffering.  Hip replacement surgery is generally not recommended for people with osteoarthritis until later in life, usually around 55 to 60 years of age.  The replacement parts have a limited life span of about 20 years.  So you must live with the pain and the limiting effects osteoarthritis has on the quality of your life.   

You may not know this, but there is another option for younger people living with osteoarthritis.  The procedure is called hip resurfacing.  This surgery has been around for almost a decade and is intended for middle aged arthritis sufferers.  The surgeon will reshape the top of the thighbone.  Then a metal cap is fitted over the reshaped thighbone, sitting inside a thin metal hip socket.  The metal cop blocks the nerve endings on either side, blocking the pain.  The surgery is said to almost completely eliminate the pain from osteoarthritis within 5 years.  It will also make any surgeries that may be necessary in the future more successful and easier to perform.