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When hip pain and stiffness make it difficult for you to get out of bed or take a short walk, arthritis may be to blame. The degenerative condition is the leading reason more than 450,000 hip replacement surgeries are performed yearly. “When your normal activities are limited by pain, it’s time to talk to your doctor about hip replacement surgery,” said Brian Lewis, MD, a hip specialist and orthopaedic surgeon at Duke Health. 

Assistant Professor Brett Rocos, MD, a spine specialist and ortho surgeon at the Duke Orthopaedic Surgery Department, recently learned a new spine technique on the west coast via Virtual Reality (VR) goggles from his office at Duke in Durham, NC. "It placed me right in the OR with the operating team." 

Hometown: I am originally from Wheeling, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Adult Reconstruction Eric Stephen Dilbone, MD Residency - Vanderbilt University Medical Center Medical School - Emory University School of Medicine Marcus DiLallo, MD Residency - UCSF Medical Center Medical School - Duke University School of Medicine 

Congratulations to Ben Alman, MD, Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, who was named President-Elect of the Southern Orthopaedic Association (SOA) at their 44th Annual Meeting in Florida. 

Congratulations to Paul Lachiewicz, MD, who received the 2023 L. Andrew Koman, MD, Distinguished Southern Orthopaedist Award at the 40th annual meeting of the Southern Orthopaedic Association (SOA). He is a consulting professor at Duke Ortho and an attending surgeon at the Durham VA Medical Center, with a career focus on total hip and knee arthroplasty.

Duke Doctor of Physical Therapy faculty members Amy Pastva, PT, MA, PhD, and Corey Simon, DPT, PhD, has been appointed as members of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). They will serve as faculty in DCRI's Musculoskeletal and Surgical Sciences (MASS) Therapeutic Area.

If your child experiences sport-related pain or injury, an appointment with a sports medicine primary care physician may be the best option for getting them back in the game.

Hip pain during sex is more common than people think. Still, those who suffer are often uncomfortable telling their providers, said Elizabeth Scott, MD, a hip specialist and orthopaedic surgeon at Duke Health. In many cases, hip impingement or a labral tear is the culprit.  Dr. Scott advises people who experience hip pain during sex to speak up. “If you're feeling it, talk to someone because it's not normal to have hip pain with sex.”