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Hip replacement
ropedonkey
11-Sep-2011
8:57:17 PM
Does anyone have one or know someone that has climbed after a hip replacement?
Wendy
12-Sep-2011
7:38:24 AM
I went out climbing with Rox the other week, she was 11 weeks post op on her 2nd hip replacement (that's both hips, not the same one twice). She had promised her surgeon that she wouldn't climb anything harder than a staircase for 12 weeks. She may have a more liberal understanding of staircase than her surgeon, but nevertheless, led a 9 and a 12 with no dramas. Maureen is climbing again after hers, my father is playing cricket again after his. It seems pretty promising you'll be able to climb again.

Doug
12-Sep-2011
7:56:06 AM
Yes, you're talking to a post-hip op person. I had a full hip replacement (AMIS procedure with Michael Pritchard in Hobart) in early November 2009. I did some easy climbing (up to 17 at Arapiles in April 2010), walked the Pyrenean Haute Route in June-August, and had an extensive climbing trip to Arapiles, Moonarie, Frog and Nowra this year. I've only led up to 20 (followed a few harder things) so far as my fitness level is pretty low after having also had two shoulder operations in the last couple of years.
I've just started doing yoga for my climbing (at age 56!) and wish I'd got into it much sooner. A good rehab program will be a big help, and I'd recommend the yoga once you start to regain some strength.
If you can find someone who does the AMIS procedure your rehab time will be much shorter.
Here's a couple of videos (one's an animation in case you're a bit squeamish with the real thing!) and a link to Hip Arthroscopy Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aN8cOTyQ3A (the real thing!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfaW6Wlusak (animation)
Hip Arthroscopy Australia:
http://www.hiparthroscopyaustralia.com.au/
Dr John O'Donnell operates out of Melbourne and has been doing the AMIS procedure for about three years now.
Good luck!
Mr Poopypants
12-Sep-2011
6:45:01 PM
Bugger! Now I'm clicking on hip-replacement links and feeling like they are relevant.

I suspect this thread has had more lookers than anyone wants to admit.

Now all we need is a thread on 'adventure' walking frames...

:-)

wallwombat
12-Sep-2011
6:45:38 PM

John Gill


kuu
12-Sep-2011
7:38:00 PM
On 12/09/2011 Mr Poopypants wrote:
>Bugger! Now I'm clicking on hip-replacement links and feeling like they
>are relevant.
>
>I suspect this thread has had more lookers than anyone wants to admit.
>
>Now all we need is a thread on 'adventure' walking frames...
>
>:-)

Wait for it Glenn, it won't be long.

And by the way, have you looked into getting one of those electric scooter things? ;-)

IdratherbeclimbingM9
12-Sep-2011
8:36:10 PM
.... I have been told that the ideal retirement home is within zimmer-frame distance of the local coffee shop!
;-)
ropedonkey
12-Sep-2011
9:14:50 PM
Thanks guys so far all looking kinda positive and less scary. don't worry i am on the end of zimmer frame jokes galore. But at present i look at crags depending on the walk in times rather than the climbs there
TonyB
13-Sep-2011
7:10:50 AM
My specialist told me that I'd need a hip replacement 5 years ago. I was on various drugs and told there was no cure and that it would only get worse. I'd spent months at the physio, with zero benefit. My wife's doctor looked at the same x-rays and warned her against marrying me (she ignored the warning). My wife and I then developed a treatment using very hard massage around the lower spine. I am now pain free and of course back to climbing.
widewetandslippery
13-Sep-2011
8:08:17 AM
My knowledge of hip replacements is they generally need replacing. I don't know the ins and outs (no pun intended) but I've been told working backwards from the date when you think you will be young enough to handle your last replacement should dictate when you have your first. Best of luck zimmerdonkey.
grangrump
13-Sep-2011
11:40:30 AM
>Now all we need is a thread on 'adventure' walking frames...
Think of those kangaroo stilts x4

Doug
13-Sep-2011
12:04:08 PM
On 13/09/2011 TonyB wrote:
>My specialist told me that I'd need a hip replacement 5 years ago.... My wife and I then developed a treatment using very hard
>massage around the lower spine. I am now pain free and of course back
>to climbing.
Great to hear a story like this! Well done, Tony. Unfortunately natural therapy is not a solution in most cases, certainly not mine. When the arthritis got to the point where I couldn't get my leg over the saddle on my bike and I couldn't rotate my leg outward more than a few degrees I'd had enough.
TonyB
13-Sep-2011
1:48:12 PM
Thanks Doug. Mine was very bad. I couldn't even roll over in bed at night because of the pain. There is no way I could have ridden my bike. Even sitting in a chair for a short period was difficult. My totally unsubstantiated theory is that muscle tightness around the hips and lower back limits blood supply that allows the joint to repair itself. I've always done a lot of exercise and always focussed on flexibility but I now have greater mobility than I had 20 years ago. For example, I'd always wondered why a climbing mate could lift his leg much higher than mine to a foothold close to the body (hands on holds up high). Now I can raise my foot perhaps 10cm higher than I used to. I only hope is lasts. The thought of metal hips is terrifying. From all I've heard, you have 15 to 25 years before you're in a wheelchair.
Once the cartilage is worn away completely there's not much hope but I do wonder how many people could avoid the metal that doctors are so quick to proscribe.

Doug
13-Sep-2011
2:37:57 PM
On 13/09/2011 TonyB wrote:
The thought of metal hips is terrifying.
> From all I've heard, you have 15 to 25 years before you're in a wheelchair.
>Once the cartilage is worn away completely there's not much hope but I
>do wonder how many people could avoid the metal that doctors are so quick
>to proscribe.
>

Sorry to bang on, but I think the picture is much brighter these days than the one you paint, Tony. I know a woman who had degenerative hips and had her first set of replacements about 20 years ago. She recently (4 - 5 years ago) had both of them done again and she is bombproof. The technology has come along even further in the past few years. (Having said that, anyone contemplating major hip surgery should avoid hip resurfacing like the plague: there have been some very bad results coming through longitudinal studies and many surgeons won't do them any more!) My surgeon has assured me that the ball he has put in won't wear out. The (new age) plastic cup may wear out with the (relatively) high level of activity that I subject it to, but then it's just a matter of replacing that. He said he will need to see me in 10 years, so I'm pretty happy with that at this stage. The bottom line is that I can do stuff I couldn't dream of a couple of years ago as I was bone on bone and was limping around like I had a peg leg.
Anyway, I'm just off climbing!
Cheers ...
TonyB
13-Sep-2011
5:19:41 PM
Doug, I'm sure the technology is continually improving. I wish you all the very best. Great to see that it hasn't stopped you climbing ... and encouraging for me ;-)
Mine wasn't bone on bone. At that point you have no choice. Interestingly I know a physio who is also a keen climber, who says that in her experience there's not a good correlation between pain and immobility and the actual state of the joint. She says that there can be lots of pain from a joint that is not too bad. My x-rays just showed thinning and darkened areas of cartilage. I was told I needed a hip replacement. Hopefully he's wrong.

kipper
16-Sep-2011
3:25:47 PM
Dr David Malikof, who owns the gym in Port Macquarie had a hip replaced. As far as I know he still climbs. He was climbing on it a few weeks after he had it replaced. I was impressed.
AmberJones
30-Aug-2015
10:12:24 PM
I had anterior hip replacement by *SPAM Deleted*
Very happy, good result.
goldiejohnson26
25-Nov-2015
6:52:40 PM
My Uncle went back to climbing 13 weeks post operation. He was relieved after undergoing hip surgery in India (please allow me to share with you his reference: *SPAM Deleted*
Are you undergoing surgery? Where? Good luck!

IdratherbeclimbingM9
25-Nov-2015
7:10:18 PM
On 25/11/2015 goldiejohnson26 wrote:
>My Uncle went back to climbing 13 weeks post operation. He was relieved
>after undergoing hip surgery in India (please allow me to share with you
>his reference: *SPAM Deleted*
>
>Are you undergoing surgery? Where? Good luck!

Hmm.
Caveat emptor...

http://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/Johnson-Johnson-faulty-implants-Indians-left-in-lurch/articleshow/26814722.cms

?

>Good luck!
Indeed!!*

(*Please note that this site also has a healthy tradition of questioning sales of gear, ropes and other assorted stugangesque thingamajimmies...
Heh, heh, heh.
)
dalai
25-Nov-2015
9:16:31 PM
I call shenanigans

AmberJones one post. Stupid enough to use an email address which just happens to be the email address in the Yellow pages for an Orthopaedic Group which surprise surprise is the same location as listed on the recommended surgeons website!

goldiejohnson26 email and various versions of Goldie E Johnson once again surprise surprise always recommend flaccidway for surgery overseas.

Both users now locked!

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