Sit upright with knees bent, hands resting behind you. Cross left ankle over right knee. Let right knee travel out to the ...

The front of your pelvis drops and the back rises — that's anterior pelvic tilt for you, often caused by long hours of ...

Hips rotate forward causing lengthened hip flexors and shortened lumbar extensors (Figure A) After long term exposure to this positioning the muscles will adjust to these improper lengths. Figure C ...

When any of these muscles are tight, the tension pulls your pelvis forward into an anterior tilt, putting compressive stress on your lumbar spine and knees that can lead to hip immobility ...

They may need to do this because of special conditions with your hip. Your recovery may take longer if your surgeon performed the posterior approach. With an anterior approach, your surgeon works ...

Liberal, Kan.-based Southwest Medical Center orthopedic surgeon Firas Kawtharani, MD, has added minimally invasive anterior hip replacements to its roster of procedures. Dr. Kawtharani will now offer ...

Our orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Firas Kawtharani, is proud to offer his patients a significant advancement in hip replacement ...