Total Hip Replacement–a Patient Guide

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Total Hip Replacement A Patient Guide
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What is Hip Replacement?

• Total hip replacement is a surgical procedure
  with remarkable success and patient satisfaction
  rate.
• It is performed on patients with arthritis of hip
  joint resulting from several causes like ageing
  wear and tear, avascular necrosis of the hip ball
  due to loss of blood supply, rheumatoid
  arthritis, post-injury arthritis or hip fracture.

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Who would need a total hip replacement?

• Do you have constant pain at your hip joint?
• Do you limp at your hip while walking?
• Do you feel your affected leg to be shortened?
• Is your gait changed due to hip pain or leg
  shortening?
• If answers to most of the following mentioned
  questions are YES, then probably hip replacement
  is need!

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Who would need a total hip replacement?

• Does the pain travel from front of your hip to
  front of the thigh and even up to the knee?
• Have you been on long term steroid use for any
  disease?
• Has your hip pain started following any previous
  hip injury or fracture?
• If YES, then, probably it's time to consult your
  orthopedic doctor and get your hip joint
  checked!

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Hip Replacement Surgery

• Hip replacement is a surgery with high success
  rate. The result is achieved by a teamwork of
  highly trained professionals.
• Patient must be made aware of the advantages of
  the procedure as well as the precautions to be
  taken after surgery.
• Check out the key goals of hip replacement
  surgery .

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Goals of Hip Replacement Surgery

• Following are the goals to be achieved from a
  successful hip replacement surgery
• Pain relief at rest as well as during all
  activities.
• Improved hip joint movement and function.
• Correction of any leg length discrepancy.
• Improved strength of the muscle acting around the
  hip.
• Improved gait pattern and resumption to active
  normal lifestyle.

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Goals of Hip Replacement Surgery

• Precautions to be taken for hip replacement
• are as following
• Avoid sitting on the floor or sitting in crossed
  legged fashion.
• Avoid indulging in high-energy activities like
  running, jumping or jogging.
• Avoid accidental falls.
• Cycling, swimming and brisk walking can be
  carried out after around 3 months of surgery,
  depending on individual recovery and limitations.

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How safe is total hip replacement surgery?

• People all over the world have been experiencing
  the success of THR. Its totally a safe
  procedure.
• Added to the conventional medical treatments, the
  science has always invented much and made THR
  even better than ever.
• The advanced THR procedure is accurate and done
  almost without any risks while or after the
  operation.

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Recovery after Hip Replacement

• With new innovations in surgical techniques,
  invention of improved materials and designs of
  hip implants, nowadays, Hip replacement has
  become very safe procedure.
• The patient starts walking on a same day of
  procedure within few hours.
• Stair climbing and stick walking can be carried
  out on 3rd or 4th operative day.
• Discharge to the home on 4th or 5th day of
  surgery.
• Very short and pain-free physiotherapy period of
  2 to 3 weeks duration.
• Resumption of active daily life and regular
  duties in 4 to 6 weeks time.
• Long lasting results and happy pain-free years
  added to life.

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How long will THR usually last for?

• The hip implants in as many as 85 cases will
  last for approximately 20 years or more. It is
  twice as much as the time it lasted in the 1970s
  for.
• The innovation in surgical technologies,
  techniques and hip implants has yet much to offer
  in near future.

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