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    THR Concerned about long lay off from swimming?

    One of my new swimming friends had a total hip replacement last week. She described it as an "s-rom", a technique new to her, used because her hip was said to be deformed, hardly surprising, since this is her 3rd hip operation, at the age of 40, the others being in her childhood. I have...
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    THR staffsknot story so far

    It seems I should have been putting my story all in the same thread, and instead it's been all over the place, hidden away in comments aboutt he struggles of other people. So here's a relatively quick synopsis of what I take to be a fairly typical recovery, which may be of use particularly to...
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    Wince or Winceyette?

    I know I am improving and I know I am finding it hard to summon up enough patience for the task of recovery. Just wanted to let you know how I was getting on and to see if anybody could help with my remaining problems. This is all a bit selfish of me, because I can read that others are having a...
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    Going back to look for my stick

    Not quite right yet. Right side feels reluctant and a longer walk requires use of a stick. A splendid stick, metal, with a pattern of brown squares, different shades all down it. A bit effeminate if I'm honest. It breaks down into four folds when you need to carry it in a bag, rather than in...
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    Not moaning really, not much to moan about

    12 weeks since my new hip and I feel as if things are going very well. My general level of strength and stamina is fairly good. Gym sessions are not a problem and I can swim about half a mile with no ill effects. The only problem is that I am still limited to 2 miles or so of gentle walking and...
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    Measuring the effort

    Hello, everybody. I'm responding to the feeling that I get, when people say that they like to hear about successful recoveries because they cheer up people who are struggling or haven't had their operations yet. I'm doing OK. I was very active before and this maybe helped. Not much seems to...
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    Ballet and yoga, whatever next?

    Within weeks a professional ballet dancer can do multiple jumps and a yoga expert after a short time can go into full splits. I really am delighted for them. But elsewhere in these pages I can read stories of people in the toils months and even years after their operations. My heart goes out to...
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    You can do anything you like

    Well, the OS did qualify it a bit by banning high impact things like running, but said occasionally running to catch a bus would be OK. It was the first check up after the operation, 8 weeks, a little longer than the 6 weeks that seems to be more usual. When I asked about stopping precautions he...
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    I seem to be doing too well. Help!

    In my 7th week of recovery from R total hip replacement and have only just discovered you. Too late really, since I had quite a few nasty surprises at first. Had rheumatic fever twice in childhood, then further pains in late 20s. Specialist told me to do " as much activity as possible". Did...
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