Imagine walking down the street making a clicking sound with every step that is so loud people stare. That’s what happened to Kim Horbas the summer after she had hip replacement surgery in February 2008 with a device made by a division of Johnson & Johnson, DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.

The clicking sound was the first sign the Champaign, Illinois woman had that something might be terribly wrong with the device doctors put in her hip. It turns out the doctors themselves had no idea that the DePuy device had a high failure rate.

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Veteran personal injury attorney Jim S. Adler often warns people “Don’t be a victim twice.” That advice certainly applies to victims of DePuy Orthopaedics defective implants for hip replacement surgery.

Such persons endured hip replacement surgery with the assurance that it would last them at least 15 years before another surgery might be needed. Instead, some have suffered pain almost immediately, when the DePuy hip replacement implant — a metall ball and socket joint — failed and eroded. This spewed tiny amounts of chromium and cobalt into their bodies.

That defective medical device meant those persons quickly needed another surgery, or “revision” surgery, to correct the problem. DePuy, which manufactured the failed device, has issued a hip implant recall for the devices, meaning it will pay for victims’ revision surgery.

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A manufacturer of a defective medical device has harmed thousands of Americans. Now it wants them to be victims again. That’s because DePuy Orthopaedics, whose ASR Hip System has caused many “revision surgeries” after failing to do its job, now wants to “recall” its products from others who suffer pain due to its failures

DePuy wants these victims to avoid exploring their legal rights but instead to report for another hip replacement surgery, at DePuy’s expense. It does not want victims to press for their legal rights in terms of all the damages done by this defective product.

But many victims of the defective hip replacement device should know better. They should know that by alerting an experienced defective medical device lawyer or defective products attorney they can pursue full and just financial compensation for their losses via a hip replacement lawsuit.

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Chances are you’ve known someone who’s had surgery on their ankle, knee, shoulder, wrist or other joint in their body, and afterward, they’ve had pain and needed help. And chances are that person’s doctor had them use cryotherapy or a cold therapy system to remove heat, reduce pain and ease inflammation.

If so, this means there’s another chance: that your friend or loved one suffered a cryotherapy injury after such cold therapy treatment. They may have had nerve damage, skin damage and extreme, sustained pain.

This happens in part because such cold therapy systems are supposed to be applied by patients, yet do not provide them with adequate instructions. The cold therapy machine — a cooler with icy water, a pump and a cooling pad placed on the body — can be set at too low of a temperature or used for too long of a time. And that can cause cryotherapy injury.

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Health care is supposed to help your health, not hurt it. But recent studies show that CT scans (computed tomography) may inflict much more radiation than previously believed and can cause cancer. In fact, up to 29,000 new cancers may erupt in America each year due to CT scan radiation, says the Archives of Internal Medicine.

One study in that journal indicates persons in CT scans may be subjected to as much as four times the amount of radiation than previously estimated. Former studies had depended on inanimate dummies to be subjected to scans, but this study examined 1,119 patients at several San Francisco hospitals.

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