BHR De Smet 12/05/07 December 20, 2007 2 weeks post op! After several years of joint pain, and trips to doctors, a friend put me onto your site at the end of this summer. I am a 54 yr old female runner, who used to do sprint triathlons and bike and kayak. The pain…
Continue reading →June In Belgium – My Second BHR This Is What It Means To Be Healed June In Belgium – My Second BHR What It Is Like Having Surgery In Belgium Life At Home 6 Weeks After My First BHR Surgery Dearest Hippys, Hip #2 is going well here in Gent Belgium. Everyone says that I…
Continue reading →June In Belgium – My Second BHR Other Posts by Lynn This Is What It Means To Be Healed June In Belgium – My Second BHR What It Is Like Having Surgery In Belgium Life At Home 6 Weeks After My First BHR Surgery Dearest Hippys, Hip #2 is going well here in Gent Belgium.…
Continue reading →Recovery – Life At Home Other Posts by Lynn This Is What It Means To Be Healed June In Belgium – My Second BHR What It Is Like Having Surgery In Belgium Life At Home 6 Weeks After My First BHR Surgery Dear Ones, I have been home for 10 days now. It has managed…
Continue reading →Updated 6/16/08 Download Patricia’s Book in pdf format by clicking the button below: Pat has written her new book to help people with questions about hip resurfacing. It is her complete story about her BHR that she received on March 15, 2006 from Dr. De Smet in Belgium Book Cover Book Forward Book…
Continue reading →LBHR De Smet January 15, 2008 Julie 4 weeks after surgery Julie 6 weeks after surgery Salut ! I am now 12 days after surgery, back home in Montreal. I am now a happy owner of a left BHR. It took 50 minutes to implant the device. The installation of the femoral component…
Continue reading →Dr. De Smet 2009 Updated 3/15/2010 In the summer from 2005 I went to Belgium for resurfacing from my right hip by Koen de Smet. I was born with hip dysplasia and had a pelvic osteotomy 30 years ago. The last few years I had a lot of pain and couldn’t walk more than 50…
Continue reading →Three Year AnniversaryYo, Hippy Kids…. Today marks three years of remarkable, painfree, unrestricted life after a resurfacing on 15Dec04. In my case, for you who are new here, I was crippled after a handball mishap in May of 1996. I had to stand, leaning on crutches, to check into the hospital, because it finally hurt…
Continue reading →My husband had an LBHR with DeSmet yesterday and all I can say is "WOW" Everything has exceeded our expectations. We arrived at the Villa Cento Passi on November 5th around noon. We were greeted by the Villa staff as if we had just arrived home. Our luggage was taken to our room (#6) and…
Continue reading →LBHR De Smet June 13, 2006 Updated 71/5/08 I was a marathoner with 6 years between my last long run and hip resurfacing for protrusio acetabulum with Dr. Koen De Smet in Gent, Belgium. I have to admit that my fanatical pursuit of hip resurfacing was initially driven by a desire to run again. De…
Continue reading →RBHR with Dr. De Smet 1/11/06 How Very Strange This Universe Works January 31, 2006 – how very strange this universe works… I am recently back from Belgium with a brand new right hip (De Smet, Jan.11/06). So far, life "on the other side" (as Alan called it once!) has been great. Slow and steady,…
Continue reading →What it is Like Having Surgery in Belgium Other Posts by Lynn This Is What It Means To Be Healed June In Belgium – My Second BHR What It Is Like Having Surgery In Belgium Life At Home 6 Weeks After My First BHR Surgery Hello to all of you who are Belgium Hippy’s, or…
Continue reading →Bi-Lat with Dr. De Smet December 2006 Updated 1/2/09 Kani at the Villa in Belgium The following is an account of my bilateral hip resurfacing adventure gathered from some emails I had sent and some of which were posted on the Surface Hippy website. I hope they will give an insight for anyone interested in…
Continue reading →I have now had the operation from Dr De Smet for my hips. Pretty courageous move to achieve. Interesting he used the Conserve plus device in the end in which I thought he would. He is not biased in any way just what he thinks works best. My surgery was … Continue reading →
Today is my 8 year anniversary of my BHR by Dr. De Smet of Belgium. It is still doing well and I never had any problems with my hip resurfacing. I was very lucky to have a quick and easy recovery. I was on one crutch for 3 weeks and … Continue reading →
Pablo’s Hip Resurfacing with Dr. De Smet 2013 February 04, 2013 I’m a 46 year old male, and will need a hip resurfacing this year. The arthritis in my case is apparently due to the combination of three factors: developmental dysplasia (mild I guess), femoroacetabular impingment (FAI) and joint hypermobility. … Continue reading →
Roemer Visser’s Hip Resurfacing with Dr. De Smet 2013 Friday, Oct 11, 2013 It’s strange, but I have a new hip. That is to say, just three days ago, Dr. Koen de Smet resurfaced my left hip using the Birmingham method. I’ve just entered the last two hours of my … Continue reading →
Jira’s Hip Resurfacing with Dr. De Smet 2010 I received a Right Conserve+ 17 days ago from Dr. De Smet of Belgium. We got home to Canada 6 days ago and today I had my first exercise session in our local pool. The therapists were blown away by how mobile … Continue reading →