It’s also done when another shoulder replacement surgery didn’t work. The metal ball gets attached to your shoulder bones, and a socket is implanted at the top of your arm.

X-ray - a test that produces images of internal structures on film. X-rays can show irregularities in the shape of the ball or top of the thigh bone or excess bone around the rim of the socket.

The ball joint is attached to the shoulder bone, and the socket is attached to the upper arm bone. This surgery is very effective at providing pain relief.

The shoulder joint has three main bones, the collarbone (clavicle), shoulder blade (scapula) and the upper arm bone (humerus). At the upper end of the humerus is a ball, called the humeral head ...

It is a long bone between the elbow and the shoulder. The humerus has a spherical portion at the top of the arm, which acts as the “ball” to the “socket” of scapula.

The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint that connects the upper arm bone to the shoulder blade. Four muscles attach to the bones of the shoulder joint, and these form the rotator cuff.

The weight and gravity should reposition the ball of your arm bone back toward the socket. The shoulder should “pop” back in. After 20 minutes, remove the weights.

Hip dysplasia is when the ball and socket of your hip joint don’t fit together as they should. Usually, the ball-shaped end of your upper thigh bone (femur) fits neatly into a socket in your pelvis ...

Ball and socket joints also allow types of movement called abduction, adduction, rotation and circumduction. Abduction – movement away from the midline of the body.