My wife had both hips done. I did my knee almost a year to the date. Yup, hip recovery is lower pain, but no bending for a few weeks and more time with a walker or cane. I was going up and down stairs within a couple of days, but had high level pain (and little sleep) for about three weeks (I was warned about that). I started PT before surgery, and was diligent about afterward, and continue with many of the exercises today. At five weeks, I regained most of my range of motion. I was 90% recovered at 10 months and fully recovered now. Glad that my recurrent PCa didn’t rear up until this summer.