Classification of the reason for revision surgery is as follows: (1) Implant failure (2) Superficial or deep infection ; (3) Avascular necrosis; (4) Hip instability; (5) Hip dislocation; (6) Open wound; (7) Painful hardware; (8) Intractable pain due to wear of the acetabulum; (9) Peri-prosthetic femur fracture; and (10) Nonunion.
There is much misery in Terence Davies's new movie, and much of the fear that CS Lewis said was like grief, and also a kind of vertigo and euphoria at looking directly, as if for the first time, at the mystery of existence: the painful, intractable mystery romantic love will never quite be able to solve or explain away.
That is a moment of pure poetry, a divine solvent for all the painful and intractable things that are to follow in the film.
But as painful and intractable as many of the problems associated with immigration may be, they have also added, undeniably, to the vitality and variety of French culture, refreshing and renewing it in large and small ways.
When I read "Hamlet" that night, it seemed to me to be all about the question of whether it's worth it to be alive, when life means a tangled, intractable, inherited morass of painful family stories and family responsibilities, about whether education can really pull you out or whether you have to leave the university and go back to Elsinore.
Yet on closer inspection the trauma in Lebanon has opened a small window of opportunity to once again attempt to find a solution to this painful and intractable dispute.
A 66-year-old man developed intractable trigeminal neuropathic pain after trauma of the supraorbital branch of the Vth nerve, associated with tactile and thermal sensory loss in the painful area.
But what lingers in the mind's eye after is the raw grappling with the intractable present, in all its painful, brutal, live-wire intensity.
The situation is painful, complex and seemingly intractable, and into this lion's den, Kramer has willingly walked.
