Squeaky Hips

 I guess there's getting to be more and more of these?  

From the blog...

Squeak Hips - can they hear you coming?

No serious consequences, although the FDA has warned Stryker...ceramic on ceramic...about 3% of patients experiencing problems...the video shows you what it sounds like...BD 

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As all three patients — and hundreds of others — discovered once they pinpointed the source of the noises, they had become guinea pigs in an unfolding medical mystery. Their artificial hips are made of ceramic materials that were promoted as being much more durable than older models. But for reasons not yet fully understood, their hips started to squeak, raising questions about whether the noises herald more serious malfunctions.

“There is something amiss here,” said Dr. Douglas E. Padgett, chief of adult reconstructive and joint replacement service at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. More than 250,000 Americans get total hip implants each year, a procedure that generally costs close to $45,000. Hip replacements have a success rate of more than 90 percent, based on patients’ achieving relatively pain-free mobility after recovery periods that range from a few months to a year.

Ducknet:

“There is something amiss here,” said Dr. Douglas E. Padgett,

 

He should have said .. "There is a mystery afoot"