Hip Replacement Symptoms

The symptoms that suggest the need for hip replacement are those that indicate how the patient can perform the necessary activities. X-rays may show things that indicate that arthritis such as thinning of cartilage, bone spurs, cysts. Add to that a patient who has difficulty walking, can not walk a block, can not participate in activities performed, and lives on NSAIDs and you have a candidate for total replacement. How do I know what it is? Because it describes me and my xray in the year before both hips replaced.

It is not only the X-ray but may confirm what is suggested by clinical symptoms of the patient.