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Hi Ligol,
First ion all, please don't be terrified.
I moved in 2018 and had to find new Drs and orthopedic surgeons . I'm sure you have many good ones in your area.
My criteria for finding a good ortho surgeon is as follows: 1) find a surgeon in their mid/late 30s to mid 40s. They are young and ambitious and armed with the latest surgical know-how, 2) select a surgeon with a good med school and residency/fellowship pedigree. The best ortho surgeons will gave completed a residency AND fellowship in a specific area of orthopedics, like hips, knees, shoulder. spine, and on.
I did this and found some great surgeons. Since 2018, I have had both knees replaced (2023) and this year (2025) had my right hip and left shoulder replaced. All were extremely successful and eliminated the pain I was in. I was very active in rehab and did everything that I was told to do as far as rehabbing at home.
Hips are supposed to be the easiest replacement surgery, and mine certainly was. I would advise getting a hip replaced with an "anterior" incision rather than posterior or lateral. The anterior approach spares all the muscles and results in a faster recovery.
Hope that helps, and all the best to you!
Joe
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I would slightly alter your guidance to 40s and 50s and add what I consider the most important criteria (and why I am increasing the age range): extensive experience doing the same procedure I am wanting. I would want at least 100 praocedures and preferably hundreds or thousands.
Someone has to be the trainee. I don't want it to be me. I was in the supermarket recently and bumped into a woman who enthusiastically told me she had recently had a hip replacement by a surgeon who had been trained by the inventor of the method. I asked if she meant Jimmy Chow and she said yes. I then told her that Jimmy Chow was my surgeon. My point is that the guy who was trained I am sure is a good surgeon and Dr. Chow runs a fellowship program but I prefer the trainer, not the trainee.
There are newer approaches to hip replacement: Superpath, STAR, etc. instead of anterior or posterior. I had Superpath by the primary inventor of that method (Jimmy Chow) and I had zero post surgery pain. I attribute more to his skill than luck because seven weeks ago he replaced my right knee and I had zero pain after the surgery as well.
I believe the single most important decision one can make is surgeon selection. I have a bunch of criteria for that but once you have selected the surgeon, I believe in following his instructions and advice.