I am a 47 year old male who works as a Medical School Professor and am very active. I had a THR on Sept 15, 2008 and have recovered nicely. I learned a lot of from reading the surface Hippy Web site and picked my surgeon, Michael Mont of Baltimore based on this information. I have psoriatic arthritis (PA), which is a form of inflammatory arthritis that is similar to rheumatoid arthritis. The PA has hit my hip joints and caused the rapid decay of my right hip; my left hip is on it’s way out also.

At the time when my right hip was bone on bone, I had been racing my bicycle for years and seriously considered a resurfacing by Dr. Mont. I traveled to visit him in Baltimore and did a lot of research on metal on metal hip replacement devices. I felt that the resurfacing would …