Methods and Tolls for Hip Replacement with Supercapsular Percutaneously Assisted Total Hip Approach

A surgical procedure for replacing a hip joint in an operative leg of a patient, comprising

• making a main incision on the operative leg, the main incision is initiated at a point being a projection of a tip of a greater trochanter and extends proximally about a distance in the range of from 1 cm to 8 cm in line with the femoral axis of the operative leg;
• making an inline capsulotomy to expose the hip joint capsule for accessing the hip joint, the inline capsulotomy is performed while keeping muscles and posterior capsule intact;
• preparing the femoral canal of the femur in the operative leg for receipt of a femoral implant;
• resecting and removing the femoral head of the femur;
• and
• performing a step of acetabular preparation using a retractor comprising two tip rails, each tip rail having a plurality of tines.