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Why continuing pain three years after a successful hip replacement?
Joint Replacements | Last Active: Feb 5 9:22am | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
I have had pain since my hip replacement 3 1/2 years ago. I have gluteus medius tendonitis and a tear in my glute minimus which has led to some muscle weakness. I believe the tear was caused by the surgery and the tendonitis was exacerbated. I also have low back issues. L4/L5 or L5/S1 bulging discs or stenosis in particular can cause hip pain. Have you had an MRI of your lumbar spine and your hip/pelvis? Something that helped me for a while is dry needling from a PT . That activates the muscle for you and helped with the pain. Has anyone checked to make sure there was no damage to the superior gluteal nerve wwhich activates the hip abductors.
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@cs53 my wife started with total bilateral hip replacement. The femur nerve on left leg was compressed requiring a mobilization of her left leg. Once the nerve started to activate emergency surgery was required for the right hip due to a fractured pelvic fracture; never had a fall outside of falling during rehab in the shower because they removed the mobilizer from the left leg. 6 years later, still experiencing pain in both hips, they did a revision on the left due to extremely high Cobalt and Chroumin levels. 4 years later a revision of the right hip due to staph infection and continued high levels of Cobalt / Chroumin. They removed the whole component, placed a medicated spacer for 8 weeks, revision. That is at least 6 epidurals in her lower back. Today, 4 years later finally no hip pain. There is nerve damage and leg length issues. Between the leg length difference and all the epidural injection she now has a lot of issues with her lower back. They were going in and burning the nerves in her lower back with little improvement, so she chose to stop this procedure. Now only goes to the gym 3x a week. This has not improved her mobility or lessons the pain but hopefully does keep her with the ability to walk. “The Golden Years” and she is only 65 now!