I am 5 wks post THR. Groin pain is increasing. PT 3xwk. Is this normal

It’s good you’re using ice. I would ice at least 4x daily. Did you have anterior hip replacement and also wondering if you had groin pain before surgery? I would definitely talk to your therapist and maybe back off the exercises that are bothering you. I did not have groin pain before or after surgery. Best to you.

I wonder if the PT is causing these problems. I did not start PT until a couple of months after surgery.

@mykeatwater When new pain arises after surgery, it is always a good idea to consult with the surgeon or their staff. Have you called them?

Since you recently had your other hip replaced, how does this recovery compare to the first?
Years ago when I had both hips done 8 weeks apart at age 55, I found the second recovery much tougher than the first. My surgeon and the PT were no help in figuring it out, but my PCP was blunt "Two major surgeries in a few months is really tough on the body. Before 6 months, the first one isn't completely healed, and then you add another."

In my case, I wasn't walking completely normally from the first surgery, so when I began really moving on two new hips (back to my office job full time at 4 weeks after the first surgery and 6 weeks after the second) - which involved walking around all day overseeing staff, walking to meetings, etc - my groin hurt a lot by the end of each day, and I would get cramps in my thighs at night. The solution was to back off to working more from my desk, and working from home one day a week to give my hips a break. By 4-5 months I was doing well enough to go on a cruise and do all of the excursions.

So, if the doc says all is OK, resign yourself to a slower recovery.

Yes I had groin pain for past year—that’s how we discovered the arthritis that made THR necessary. I do think PT has been pushing me and that may be reason

Could be!!

My groin pain didn’t start until about three years after surgery. Not sure what started it but it has not stopped with physical therapy, pain injection, exercises, etc. Pain is anytime I lift my replaced hip leg … in and out of the car, turning over in bed, lifting it for exercise, etc. I see Dr. Hevesi at Mayo on May 5. Hoping he can give me hope for a treatment.

I would say the PT is being too aggressive. As my PT said, it’s a marathon, not a sprint! At 5 weeks you should be mostly having massages and light stretches. My plan from my Dr said 1-8 weeks massage, light stretches and there’s a machine called Nu Step, that they had me use slowly. They slowly started increasing everything and at 8 weeks is when they started getting a little aggressive. I had to change PT’s when I had a knee replacement because he was being too aggressive. You know your body so if you feel it’s too much, than it probably is.

oh, my, that is so alarming 3 years after surgery. So sorry you have so much pain. I hope your dr. has a
remedy.

I have a friend that experienced something very similar and it took
him a while until a doc finally discovered that it was the pudendal
nerve near the groin area
Which was a quick fix once diagnosed. He is even a PT & was unable to figure it out. It must be an unusual occurrence. Hope this helps. As we know, we sometimes have to do our own discoveries!