If you’ve recently had hernia surgery, it’s normal to wonder when you can go back to your usual daily activities again. And even though there is no single amount of time that could determine when patients can continue with physical activities following their hernia repair, for most people, full recovery time takes around three to […]
Polypropylene mesh is a synthetic mesh that is widely used in hernia or pelvic prolapse surgeries. Its versatility, strength, and durability are some of the reasons why it continues to be a popular choice for medical use. But research indicates that polypropylene mesh can cause more problems for patients compared to other types of surgical […]
Adhesion is a hernia mesh complication caused by potentially defective hernia mesh implants which can result in further injuries. In fact: Victims who have filed a hernia mesh lawsuit have often named adhesion as one of the injuries they have suffered from following hernia repair using surgical mesh. What is Adhesion? In general, adhesions are […]
Over the past years, the use of mesh devices has been the standard of care to fix hernias. In the United States alone, over a million hernia surgeries are performed each year, and the most widely used mesh product for this procedure is the polypropylene mesh, which is a synthetic material that has been known […]
In the past few years, the hernia mesh device has been increasingly used in hernia repair surgeries that it has been considered as a gold standard in treating hernias. Recently, however, surgical mesh implants have been linked to a wide array of side effects and complications. In fact, the hernia mesh medical device has been […]
More than 1 million hernia repair surgeries are done in the United States each year. However, not all of these procedures are successful. In fact, the hernia mesh device, which has been the gold standard of hernia treatment has been named in several complaints filed in the court. According to plaintiffs who have filed a […]
Nine out of 10 hernia repairs in the United States make use of the hernia mesh device. However, with the increasing number of cases filed in the hernia mesh lawsuit, where plaintiffs claim that they experienced numerous side effects and complications after they were implanted with a surgical mesh for their hernia repair surgery, this […]
Hernia, which is described as a weakness in the abdominal wall, is one of the oldest diseases recorded in medical literature, dating as far back as 1500 BC. But it wasn’t until 1891 when the first surgical mesh used for hernia repair was instroduced. Since then, this improvement in the surgical approach to treating a […]
Mesh migration is a kind of hernia mesh complication experienced by patients after a hernia repair using mesh. This complication mostly happens when a defective hernia mesh is used for the procedure. Painful experience is an understatement to describe what victims of these defective medical devices that suffer from mesh migration go through. To add […]
Every year, more than 100,000 hernia mesh devices are implanted in the United States alone. Although widely used by doctors in a hernia repair, hernia mesh implants have been known to fail due to design defects. And with millions of hernia repair surgeries done in the country each year, it should come as no surprise […]