Hey I appreciate your journey. Cycling is a lifeblood and possibly the best exercise for hip replacement IMO. Crashing of course is another issue, and a bike crashed caused me to tear my labrum and end up having THR probably 2 years early (OA). Im 5 weeks post op and have started riding gravel trails outdoors this past week. I switched to flat pedals after reading about other MTB's with THR using for better exist on crashes. Plus flats are the rage this year! I will be investing in hip padded bike shorts to spread impact when I go back to the singletrack. Keep on riding bro.
Wishing you best of luck with your recovery, keep the rubber side down and you will be fine.
I was thinking about flats for the mountain bike, but they are just not for me.
I am a very slow rider, and not accomplished- i just do it for fun and to try keep fit, but I suck. Everyone else is faster than me. But I couldn’t care.
I have only come off the bike twice, but both events put me in the hospital. once in 2007, when i broke my collar bone, and once in 2012, when I T boned a little car that turned in front of my bunch. Got 6 hip fractures, but they were not displaced, so I recovered quickly without any surgery.Still, I kinda wonder how much if at all it affected my OA, as I became symptomatic about 3 years later.
I have only replaced one hip so far,and the other is ok for now, but I am not relishing the prospect of having to go through the ordeal of surgery again. Who would?? It was all so traumatic looking back on it. The worst was the bottle that they attach to you, and the red yuck that is on the inside of you drains into it, and you realize that you are the sum total of the protoplasm now in that bottle, except of for the new titanium piece that goes ping every time you wanna get on a plane.
Anyway, as far as disjointed posts go, this one takes the cake I guess.
Anyway, Why don’t you tell me all about your bikes and the cycling routes and trails that you do.