Hip Replacement
A hip replacement done right doesn't just reduce pain. It ends the quiet negotiation a patient has been making with their body for years.
A failing hip doesn't just hurt. It reorganizes your life.
The way you walk changes. The way you sleep changes. The things you stop doing — not because you decided to, but because your body quietly stopped cooperating — that list gets longer.
Dr. Siddiqi’s goal isn’t a hip that hurts less. It’s a hip you stop thinking about.
What is Total Hip Replacement?
A total hip replacement removes the damaged femoral head and acetabular socket and replaces them with implants designed to reproduce the mechanics of a healthy joint. When it’s done well — with the right approach, the right planning, and the right preparation — most patients go home the same day.
That outcome matters. Going home the same day isn’t a benchmark of how fast the surgery was. It’s a measure of how well the body was set up to tolerate and recover from it — the surgical approach chosen, the pain management protocol built around it, and the biological preparation that began weeks before the patient walked into the OR.
Why Dr. Siddiqi Uses the Anterior Approach.
There are several ways to access the hip joint surgically. The posterior approach — the most common — enters from behind and requires detaching muscles to reach the joint. The anterior approach enters from the front, working between muscles rather than cutting through them.
The difference matters to the patient, not just the surgeon. Less muscle disruption means less soft tissue trauma, faster functional recovery, and fewer movement restrictions in the critical early weeks after surgery. It also means a lower dislocation risk in that early period — when the hip is learning to trust itself again.
The anterior approach is technically more demanding. Dr. Siddiqi uses it because the recovery data supports it and because the patients who go home the same day walking better are telling him something about what the technique produces.
Precision planning. Patient-specific.
In hip replacement, implant positioning is everything. The angle of the acetabular cup, the depth of the femoral stem, the restoration of leg length — these variables determine whether a hip performs correctly for a decade or begins to show problems at year four. The acceptable margins are measured in millimeters.
Dr. Siddiqi uses robot-assisted surgery because it allows him to build a three-dimensional surgical plan from each patient’s own imaging before he enters the OR — and to execute that plan with a precision that reduces the variability every surgeon carries in their hands, including his. He will say that plainly. Most won’t.
The robotic system doesn’t perform the surgery. Dr. Siddiqi does. What it provides is a patient-specific plan and the instrument precision to execute it. The combination produces outcomes that are more consistent, more predictable, and less dependent on the variables of any given surgical day.
The work that happens before the OR — and after it.
Every hip replacement Dr. Siddiqi performs begins weeks or months before surgery day. At the first consultation, he evaluates not just whether the patient is medically safe to operate on, but whether their biology is in the right condition to recover well — nutritional status, inflammatory markers, albumin levels. Variables that are upstream of the outcome and modifiable, if the preparation starts early enough.
If the numbers aren’t right, the surgery date doesn’t get set. The next 60 to 90 days are spent changing them. It is a slower path to the OR. It is a faster path to recovery.
After surgery, every patient has direct access to Dr. Siddiqi and his team — not a call center, not a messaging portal with a 48-hour response window. The access commitment is the same on a Sunday evening as it is on a Tuesday morning. Recovery doesn’t follow a business schedule, and neither does this practice.
Is hip replacement right for you?
Dr. Siddiqi will review your imaging, explain what he sees, and give an honest assessment, including whether surgery is the right answer.