Your hip joints are ball-and-socket joints positioned where your thigh bone meets your pelvis. The hip joint is involved in many types of movement. It is also one of the largest joints in the body, ...

An anterior hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which damaged bones in your hip joint are replaced with an artificial hip (total hip arthroplasty). Other names for the procedure are minimally ...

Gluteal tendinopathy is usually identified by a tender feeling on the outside of your hip bone, known as your greater trochanter. The pain sometimes spreads down your outer thigh too. The condition, ...

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After treatment for Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease at the Children's Hospital of, Landon Gallo is back to running and playing.

Please sign up here to subscribe to WBUR's CommonHealth newsletter highlighting important stories about health and medicine. It all began with a single X-ray. It was 1974, and surgeons had been doing ...

It might seem obvious that a dinosaur's leg bone connects to the hip bone, but what came between the bones has been less obvious. Now, researchers have found that dinosaurs had thick layers of ...