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162 Pages
The human hip joint has made so much of what humanity has achieved possible. The ability to stand upright (which the great apes cannot do), run, lift, and carry remarkable loads have shaped and defined human history.
However, in the business of modern medicine, in which revenue supersedes the restoration of health, orthopedic surgery has played a leading role in destroying the natural hip joints we were given at birth.
Our hip joints, which are more than capable of serving us productively for a lifetime, can become damaged and inflamed. In far too many cases, even simple fractures that at one time would have only needed a cast and some recuperation and possibly physical therapy, are ignored for a surgical “repair” or total hip replacement.
In ten chapters, with ninety-four color illustrations, and five hundred citations from the scientific and medical research literature, Christine Kent makes it clear that orthopedic hip surgery is based on an old, erroneous perspective of the human hip joint.
162 Pages
The human hip joint has made so much of what humanity has achieved possible. The ability to stand upright (which the great apes cannot do), run, lift, and carry remarkable loads have shaped and defined human history.
However, in the business of modern medicine, in which revenue supersedes the restoration of health, orthopedic surgery has played a leading role in destroying the natural hip joints we were given at birth.
Our hip joints, which are more than capable of serving us productively for a lifetime, can become damaged and inflamed. In far too many cases, even simple fractures that at one time would have only needed a cast and some recuperation and possibly physical therapy, are ignored for a surgical “repair” or total hip replacement.
In ten chapters, with ninety-four color illustrations, and five hundred citations from the scientific and medical research literature, Christine Kent makes it clear that orthopedic hip surgery is based on an old, erroneous perspective of the human hip joint.