Welcome to BoneSmart and Recovery
Thanks for joining us!
Congratulations on your new hip. Your knee pain is a very common complaint. Often the knee is maneuvered
in an aggressive manner in an effort to disclocate your hip during surgery. Ice your knee right along with your hip if you're not already. It should help and the pain and bruising will gradually ease. My bruising and discomfort didn't show up until 17 days post op, so I can sympathize.
Read the Recovery Guidelines thoroughly. You'll find a lot of useful info.
Stop back often, we'd love to support you as you're healing.
Wishing you comfort and a restful evening!
Hip Recovery: The Guidelines
1.
Don’t worry: Your body will heal all by itself. Relax, let it, don't try and hurry it, don’t worry about any symptoms now, they are almost certainly temporary
2.
Control discomfort:
rest
elevate
ice
take your pain meds by prescription schedule (not when pain starts!)
3.
Do what you want to do BUT
a. If it hurts, don't do it and don't allow anyone - especially a physical therapist - to do it to you
b. If your leg swells more or gets stiffer in the 24 hours after doing it, don't do it again.
4.
PT or exercise can be useful BUT take note of these
BoneSmart philosophy for sensible post op therapy
5.
At week 4 and after you should follow this
Activity progression for THRs
6.
Access to these pages on the website
Oral And Intravenous Pain Medications
Wound Care In Hospital
Pain management and the pain chart
Healing: how long does it take?
Chart representation of THR recovery
Dislocation risk and 90 degree rule
Energy drain for THRs
Pain and swelling control: elevation is the key
Post op blues is a reality - be prepared for it
Myth busting: on getting addicted to pain meds
Sleep deprivation is pretty much inevitable - but what causes it?
BIG TIP: Hips actually don't need any exercise to get better. They do a pretty good job of it all on their own if given half a chance. Trouble is, people
don't give them a chance and end up with all sorts of aches and pains and sore spots. All they need is the best therapy which is walking and even then
not to excess.
We try to keep the forum a positive and safe place for our members to talk about their questions or concerns and to report successes with their joint replacement surgery.
While members may create as many threads as they like in a majority of BoneSmart's forums, we ask that each member have only one recovery thread. This policy makes it easier to go back and review history before providing advice. @breezing