Pain after infection and fall after THR. Shockwave? Another opinion?

Posted by tamsue69 @tamsue69, Apr 17 7:50am

In July I had my left hip replaced and felt wonderful. At 4 weeks put on antibiotics for infected incision. Then hard on that hip at 5 weeks, was hospitalized and put on IV antibiotics for my body was allergic to the sutures and they infected.
Now at 9 months later am still having pain in groin, outside hip and butt check. All labs are good; no infection. X-rays, MRI are good. Doing PT, Chiro, Accupuncture, red light therapy, hyperbarics, ultrasound guided steroid injections which only felt good when lidocaine was effective. Now they recommend shockwave which is out of pocket. Will it help? Or should I try a revision specialist outside their clinic? The expenses have already been extreme for me.

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tamsue69 | @tamsue69 | Apr 17 7:52am

*Hard fall on that hip

Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | 6 days ago

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@tamsue69 How frustrating to be doing everything possible and not to get good results. I'm sure both the fall and the infected sutures set back your recovery a good deal.
I had pain issues like you describe, plus in my knee and back, after one of my hip replacements, and it took a special type of physical therapy to get on track.
Can you describe what you have been doing in PT?

tamsue69 | @tamsue69 | 6 days ago

Hip adductors, bridges, semi squats with band around calves, small amounts of cores. What kind helped you?

Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | 6 days ago

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@tamsue69 The PTs evaluated my gait, posture (standing and sitting), position of my feet, leg length, and determined I was turning my toe in when I walked and worked really hard on that and walking straightwithout limping. Also many exercises to strengthen quads, calves, ankles and glutes. Water walking and kicking helped too. Adductor/abductor work was much later because it caused pain to flare up. I worked with 2 rehab PTs who work mainly with accident/trauma patients, not just one who typically does post-hip rehab, which is usually a set protocol.
Also, I was told to replace my pre-op workout and every day shoes because they were worn-in to my old way of walking (limping, actually). And no crocs, flip-flops, or going barefoot on hard surfaces.