Reflections & Insights: AHF 2025 Traveling Fellowship - Part I

Send us Fan Mail A Toronto hip surgeon on what two weeks in the operating rooms of leading US anterior hip surgeons changed in his own practice, and what American hospitals could learn from Canada. For hip surgeons weighing the AHF Traveling Fellowship, and for anyone working to make anterior approach care more efficient inside a hospital system. This is the third and final conversation with the 2026 AHF Traveling Fellows. Host Joe Schwab sits down with Justin Chang, an adult hip and knee s...

Send us Fan Mail Every hip surgeon will eventually crack a calcar or fracture a femur — what separates a manageable complication from a cascade is what happens next. Three hip surgeons walk through intraoperative and early complications after anterior approach total hip replacement, from the first broach to the first weeks at home. Complications come with hip arthroplasty, and the anterior approach has its own: femoral fractures and calcar cracks during broaching and seating, lateral femora...

Send us Fan Mail Three 2026 AHF Traveling Fellows on what two weeks in the operating rooms of the highest-volume anterior hip surgeons in the US taught them that no video could. For early-career hip surgeons weighing the fellowship, and for anyone trying to turn anterior approach technique into surgical judgment. This is the second of three conversations with the 2026 AHF Traveling Fellows. Host Joe Schwab sits down with Jadye Kee, a joint replacement surgeon in community practice in Bryan-...

Send us Fan Mail Three 2026 AHF Traveling Fellows on what two and a half weeks scrubbing in with the most experienced anterior hip surgeons in the US actually changed in their practice. For early-career hip surgeons weighing the fellowship, and for anyone refining their anterior approach technique, revision skills, or practice model. Every year the Anterior Hip Foundation sends a small group of early-career surgeons city to city to scrub in with the highest-volume and most innovative anteri...

Send us Fan Mail Can you really revise a failed total hip through the anterior approach? Three surgeons who do it every week explain when they stay anterior, when they still go posterior, and how they plan the exposure. A practical roundtable on anterior approach revision hip arthroplasty for arthroplasty surgeons, fellows, and residents. The knock on anterior approach revision has always been that it is not extensile. Eric Cohen, Kris Alden, and Molly Hartzler take that head-on: from the A...