Luckily, there are treatments and preventative measures that can help. The hip joint is a ball-and-socket joint connected 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 ...

The hip, which is a ball-and-socket joint at the upper thigh bone, is most likely to be fractured at its uppermost portion, known as the femoral neck. Over 300,000 people per year sustain hip ...

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 ...

In Landis' case, problems were complicated further since the area normally fed by the injured vessels was the femoral head, or tip of the thigh bone, which sits directly inside the hip socket.

Norton’s drive is fueled by more than personal ambition. “I picture my family watching at home—my grandpa, my mom,” he says. “That’s pretty important to me, to show up as the person they’d want me to ...