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I have a hip plant and now I have a 70% torn, gluteal, minimus tendon
I had a hip arthroscopy with successful implant nine years ago. Now I have a 70% torn gluteus, minimus tendon and a 15% torn gluteus medius tendon.
I could barely walk and was in great pain so I was given a PRP injection. I am walking successfully, but do not know if this is a final answer.
Has anyone else experienced this? What was the treatment? What was the outcome?
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I went to the University of Missouri Ortho Institute. The biggest problem for me was getting a correct diagnosis .
Once it was determined that the tears were present a surgeon at the Institute took over my case. I was pleased with the information he gave me in advance and with the follow-up from him and his staff. I hope you will feel comfortable with whomever is assigned to you. Ask lots of questions!
@cs53 the clams could be aggravating things more. Stick to isometric exercises. Thats the advice I've been given for degraded and torn tendons in my hip.
Does anyone have tendon issues related to an antibiotic? Specifically Levofloxacin. But any in the flouroquinolone family will cause this. Law firms won’t touch it because the Pharma lawyers are so good at this that it would waste their time. And levofloxacin is a generic of Levoquin and apparently you can’t sue on a generic drug. These drugs have double black box warnings!
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I recently was lucky enough to get an appointment with one of the top doctors for this type of repair. He agreed to do the surgery but gave me a 20-70% chance of improvement. I would always have a limp, some instability, may not need a cane; the biggest gain from this type of surgery he said was reduced hip pain. I don’t have hip pain, just my long term back pain,
I have since worked with a great physiotherapist to strengthen my gluteus Maximus and abductors. I now can walk without a cane, still slight limp but I don’t have walking endurance. I feel more secure with a cane.
The surgeon says that I have achieved the best of what the surgery would accomplish. Unless my condition changes and/or pain starts, there is no advantage to having the repair which is quite onerous with a long recovery period. I hope this information is helpful. Good luck.
There are a lot of good articles on the web if you do an AI search with very specific and full detail description in the search
@patgrant Thank you for the information. I hope you continue to have improvement. I have another opinion with a surgeon in 3 days. I have had some pain improvement doing exercises my PT showed me. I am looking forward to this new consult and what he says about the tendon repair. Thanks again.
I would be interested to hear what he says.
Pat
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> Repair surgery recommended but had PRP first PRP completely healed the
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I would be careful these days of a googled response. The first response is from Google's AI and it could be an hallucination. Be cautious.
But, on the other hand, a holistic approach for a few months won't kill you and it might actually work. If one can avoid major surgery, that is a victory.
I have a condition called CVID or Common Variable Immuno Deficiency. My body doesn't fight viruses or bacteria. Sort of boy in the bubble light. I do infusions of blood plasma of other people so I can get their antibodies. So for years and years when any of us would get something like a sinus infection we would be given Levoquin because it was very strong. Now for the last ten years or so unless it's extremely serious they will not give us any of the black box antibiotics because so many people were getting permanent damage.
Have you had CVID all your life? Or, do you think it is an effect from all the Levoquin you were given? Law firms just turn me away when I bring up these drugs. There needs to be a documentary about them. People need to know.