High-impact sports increase quality of life but reduce durability of hip implants

Artificial hips find some sports wearing.
Involvement in high-impact activities such as football, skiing, tennis or martial arts, significantly increases the wear rate and reduces the 'lifespan' of hip implants in adults who have undergone total hip replacement surgery more than a decade earlier. The work by Matthieu Ollivier, from the Sainte-Marguerite Hospital in Marseille, France, and his team is published online in the Springer journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.