Treating hip osteoarthritis

2.46 million people in England have osteoarthritis of the hip, and many of those go on to eventually have a hip replacement - which is now widely considered one of the most commonly performed and successful operations in the world. Jessamy Bagenal, clinical fellow with The BMJ, talks to Nick Aresti, a specialist registrar in trauma and orthopaedic surgery and one of the authors of a clinical update on hip osteoarthritis, recently published on thebmj.com In a linked podcast, Nick Nicholas, a patient who has hip OA gives us his perspective. Read the full article: http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i3405 Listen to the linked podcast: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/having-hip-osteoarthritis