Hip replacement questions?

[BAKPAKR]

Ask the ortho doc if you can put it off until after chukar season.

 

[El Jason]

Ask the ortho doc if you can put it off until after chukar season.

That’s the plan.

 

[Potsie]

Ask the ortho doc if you can put it off until after chukar season.

Hell with chukar season, make sure you put it off until both your cow tag and that one guys’s bull tag are filled and hanging at camp.

Also, steelhead season is pretty crucial too.

 

[BAKPAKR]

I have first dibs on the double.

 

[El Jason]

I have first dibs on the double.

Plenty of birds in flat country…insufferable vultures.

 

[corndog1]

I had mine done in Bozeman three and a half years ago at 48 years old. I did cortisone shots in the fall so I could waterfowl hunt. Mountains were out of the question at this point.I went in to operation room at seven am and was walking at two in the afternoon. A massive improvement on quality of life for me.

 

[noharleyyet]

What Is Hip Resurfacing?

Hip resurfacing is a type of hip surgery that treats severe pain and stiffness. Learn about the surgery details and recovery time.

my.clevelandclinic.org

 

[Treeshark]

My best advice: find a total joint fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon that does only total knees and hips. Let them make the decisions and do exactly what they say.

 

[WesternWyoming]

I've done hundreds of medical consults on post-op joints. Patients getting elective hip replacements are usually the happiest people I talk to with the least pain relative to before the surgery. If I needed a hip replaced, I'd be upset that I needed it, apprehensive about the PT, but not at all scared of outcome.

This thread is really helpful, thanks for the good news. I probably need a new hip after years of hiking and hard work. Gardening is very painful and should be enjoyable. Where in Wyoming/Utah/Idaho is a good place to get this done?

 

[El Jason]

My consult is with one of the best orthos in the region.

I will follow his guidance to the “T”. I’m not worried about doing the PT. I’m worried about overdoing it.

 

[Straight Arrow]

My consult is with one of the best orthos in the region.

I will follow his guidance to the “T”. I’m not worried about doing the PT. I’m worried about overdoing it.

My wife's ortho said walk as much as you would like. Unless painful, it's therapy. For wife it was no pain at all ... so she has been walking alot ever since.

 

[noharleyyet]

My consult is with one of the best orthos in the region.

I will follow his guidance to the “T”. I’m not worried about doing the PT. I’m worried about overdoing it.

Yea, the PA & sawbones will emphasize for you to own your PT, then scold you for doing it.

 

[Wildabeest]

This thread is really helpful, thanks for the good news. I probably need a new hip after years of hiking and hard work. Gardening is very painful and should be enjoyable. Where in Wyoming/Utah/Idaho is a good place to get this done?

I’d look at Park City or SLC, UT, or Jackson, WY. Ski towns seem to have pretty good orthopedic options. You didn’t mention CO, but the same would be true there.

 

[El Jason]

Still waiting on a consult. The first ortho clinic said it was not in their wheelhouse due to the advanced state of osteoarthritis. I have a referral to another clinic and am waiting to hear back from them.

My hip was pretty stiff today so I went for a mountain bike ride this afternoon. That seems to really help loosen it up.