Things are changing, as technology changes. And they can offer far more its not just people with osteoarthritis that have hip replacements, there are replacements of other joints- things are advancing all the time. I thought when I was on the ward that I would be one of the youngest (at 63) but there were people quite a bit younger than me. There is very little coloration between how something appears on an x-ray and the amount of symptoms, so to a certain extent they go on the symptoms. It’s also a question of supply and demand. The government see healthcare in terms of surgery, therefore they set targets that can be measured, so there have been more, its easier to get a hip replacement than it was. In my case, it was if your sleep was being disturbed; you’ve got pain in the night.
extract from interview with Alison Creed. Retired
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