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Phoenixx29
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Glad to see the forum is working again 
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I have not been around much these last few weeks as I was waiting for my pre-op. That's now done, and I'm now waiting for a surgery date. Unfortunately they did not give me a date during my pre-op, which I had hoped for.
The various sessions at the pre-op were quite interesting and I took home a lot of reading material. It still strikes me as odd that the protocol is so different in different countries for the same operation.
While everyone was waiting for the hip talk to start, they showed us a video produced by the local NHS trust on their enhanced recovery programme. They did talk a lot about the benefit of going home as soon as practical after surgery, as by activities of daily living (going to the bathroom/making a snack etc) the patient is doing PT without realising it (does this sound familiar?), whereas while hospitalized the patient is waited on hand and foot.
The PT talked a little about some excercises that need doing after surgery and handed out a sheet. These are purely very simple foot rotation and lower leg lifts to keep the circulation going. No more.
The OT session was the most interesting. Apparently the trust has just decided to do away with the restrictions imposed after THR, ie the 90 deg rule. This is what I most worried about. We were told just to be sensible, and obviously not to push through pain to perform a manoeuvre, and all should be well. I forgot to ask if that means I can sleep on the side, so that is something I will still need to ask. But I expect in the early days this will be uncomfortable anyway.
They encourage patients to get back to daily activities as soon as possible, but to build up slowly; so the first day go for a walk to the first lamp post outside the house, on the second day perhaps try to the second lamp post. And the best physio excercise of all is - drum roll - walking! And more walking...
They are also big on pain control. They advise to keep on top of the pain, and not to come off them too soon and to suffer through the pain, as pain will delay the healing process.
So I can calm down a bit as not much has changed since I had my knees done at the same hospital and I should be in good hands. And now the countdown continues.....I hope the date comes through soon as I do struggle more each day.
.I have not been around much these last few weeks as I was waiting for my pre-op. That's now done, and I'm now waiting for a surgery date. Unfortunately they did not give me a date during my pre-op, which I had hoped for.
The various sessions at the pre-op were quite interesting and I took home a lot of reading material. It still strikes me as odd that the protocol is so different in different countries for the same operation.
While everyone was waiting for the hip talk to start, they showed us a video produced by the local NHS trust on their enhanced recovery programme. They did talk a lot about the benefit of going home as soon as practical after surgery, as by activities of daily living (going to the bathroom/making a snack etc) the patient is doing PT without realising it (does this sound familiar?), whereas while hospitalized the patient is waited on hand and foot.
The PT talked a little about some excercises that need doing after surgery and handed out a sheet. These are purely very simple foot rotation and lower leg lifts to keep the circulation going. No more.
The OT session was the most interesting. Apparently the trust has just decided to do away with the restrictions imposed after THR, ie the 90 deg rule. This is what I most worried about. We were told just to be sensible, and obviously not to push through pain to perform a manoeuvre, and all should be well. I forgot to ask if that means I can sleep on the side, so that is something I will still need to ask. But I expect in the early days this will be uncomfortable anyway.
They encourage patients to get back to daily activities as soon as possible, but to build up slowly; so the first day go for a walk to the first lamp post outside the house, on the second day perhaps try to the second lamp post. And the best physio excercise of all is - drum roll - walking! And more walking...
They are also big on pain control. They advise to keep on top of the pain, and not to come off them too soon and to suffer through the pain, as pain will delay the healing process.
So I can calm down a bit as not much has changed since I had my knees done at the same hospital and I should be in good hands. And now the countdown continues.....I hope the date comes through soon as I do struggle more each day.
I had asked about having a drink the weekend before.
