Ball and socket joints, like the ones in your shoulders and hips, are crucial for many of the movements you make every day.

Ocie Ni Dheasmhunaigh has a form of dwarfism so extremely rare, she's one of only three known cases in Australia. The "happy ...

Hip dysplasia is a condition in which your hip socket doesn't completely cover the ball of one of your thigh bones. Your hip is the biggest ball-and-socket joint in your body. The ball of your ...

Nancy Pelosi sustained a hip fracture due to a fall while in Europe. Days later, she underwent hip replacement surgery.

Medically reviewed by Raynetta Samuels, PT, DPT, CLT Hip pain when walking has various causes that affect the bones, joints, ...

Hip replacement (also known as total hip replacement or total hip arthroplasty) is a surgical procedure that is performed to ...

or ball to the ball and hip socket, So here's some cartilage here, but there's no cartilage there, that's basically raw bone and he's been walking on a surface of raw bone there and that's very ...

Doctors said my arthritis was probably hereditary. Apparently, my hip sockets are very shallow, which means the ball of the ball-and-socket joint doesn't sit as well as it should. But, happily ...

Your hip joint supports basic functions of balance and movement in the body, such as holding up body weight and enabling upper leg movement. It’s a ball-and-socket joint that connects your femur ...