Range of movement - towards chest

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What's your best tip for improving this? At 21 months post-op still

can't hug my knee.

Kathy

> Hi,

>

> I will only add here that 18 months out from the Resurface op that

gave me a

> hip for the first time in 35 years I am still getting my ROM

> back............ I am around the same age and yes it is a nuisance

it

> doesn't happen overnight.......... apparently even for people who

were

> pretty fit before hand.............. However, it sounds like you

are pretty

> used to working on your body with all the things you did preop to

keep

> going........... so I guess in the end there will be little option

than be

> prepared to continue to do these and have the hip ligaments etc

loosen

> up/function properly in due course................

>

> Personally, I am determined that even if it takes me another 10

years I will

> in due course be able to tie my shoe laces............ there is no

time

> limit on getting more flexible etc. i.e. They take 80 year olds

down to

> gyms and get strength and condition back so I figure we can at our

> age...........smile. There are specific exercises and things to do

that will

> enhance ROM but it may pay to be careful that the area has healed

> sufficiently before you get too adventurous.............for pushing

it too

> hard only seems to cause pain and wasted time waiting for it to all

heal

> again.

>

> Best of luck with it all and keep us posted on progress..........

>

> Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Sydney Aust 8/02

>

>

>

> > I am a little concerned about the range of movement (ROM) in my

> > recently resurfaced hip. It's not that I expect to be fully

flexible

> > at this time, but rather that it feels like much further movement

may

> > not be possible. First a brief personal history:

> >

> > I am a 56 year old male (UK) who for the past few years had what I

> > took to be a groin strain, or trapped nerve. I limped and did not

like

> > bending. 15 months ago it got to the stage where I could not

stand for

> > any length of time, or walk for more than a few hundred metres

without

> > severe pain. At this stage I sought specialist help, and it was

> > revealed I had severe osteoarthritis with cysts and consequent

joint

> > space narrowing. I was sceptical, since for most of my life I had

been

> ETC ...........