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Hip replacements for fractured hip due to osteoporosis
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Your example with a recovery after hip operation certainly gives a support and hope for many other OP patients meeting different challenges. Good luck in your road!
I wonder how difficult it was to restore a muscle function in the hip. Could you describe please how you did it?
I am lying in bed with knee cup fracture, and my leg is immobilized. In several weeks I expect that my hip muscles will be terribly weakened, as I am prohibited to walk or put any weight on the leg. Unfortunately I have not started to take OP medicines, putting my hope in resistance training, walking, etc. All that I cannot do now.
Thanks.
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melia7,
I started physical therapy before the hip replacement and went to PT three days a week after. I didn’t baby myself because I really wanted the surgery to be successful. They give you pretty powerful pain meds after the surgery. Percocet in my case. The drug worked and didn’t make me woozy. I took the pain meds for 3-4 weeks. The pain is real. I wouldn’t have been able to handle PT without
Pain meds.
I found walking with a walker very disagreeable and stopped using it at home after about a week. I still used it when I left home.
After a month or so, I returned to the gym and fid a modified version of my usual routine.
I was actually in a lot of pain before the hip replacement, so the surgery and recovery was a small price to pay.