Interesting how things develop.
At the beginning of April, my other hip (right) was really hurting. My neck was still sore as well, giving me a searing right side headache. I enrolled in 3 complimentary yoga/mobility classes geared specifically for hip/core area issues in athletes & athletic people with hip issues etc... I'd hobble in with my cane & leave the class not needing my cane. Only to start all over the next day.
I made a phone call to my surgeon, asking if we can discuss my hip & pain at my 2nd year post op appointment next month. And because the headache was unbearable, I made an appointment to a local chiropractor to see if she could do something as I could not move my head at all to the right.
It was the first time I was seeing her professionally as a patient but we had known each other for over 15 years as she was a client of mine & my husband's.
And I wish we would have been 15 years ago... so 10 days ago, she was looking at me for the first time from a doctor's POV and from the second I walked in, she started picking up on things. She started asking questions. I was completely blindsided as I went in for my neck & a splitting headache... she wanted to know more about my hips & my SI joints (which I was asking every single doctor, PT, surgeon etc from day one about & who told me to disregard what I was concerned about). What started the whole ball rolling when I was 14 & that every single specialist could not figure out. She did. She put all the pieces together, asked my permission to work on me after being aghast by what she was witnessing.
To me, it had become my normal for 40+ years. So... in her opinion, it's not a mild hip dysplasia that was overlooked that caused where I am today. Everyone, including herself asked "Did you have a significant trauma/fall as a child?" And we couldn't remember anything specific. Well nothing that brought me to the hospital. But I did have several falls, I was constantly falling. When walking, running, playing, down stairs, head first, butt first. It was "normal" for me. Plus a family member was abusive. Add the horses, I've been dragged (foot caught in a stirrup & dragged down an old stone road), reared & flipped onto, bucked off... So, no I've never broken anything but, I bet my body sustained enough trauma to shift things around that didn't get put back where they should have... like my SI joints.
That, over the years, plus add the fact that I was active, did ballet & physio to stay flexible & have core strength, yet, my back would go out with a sneeze! No wonder they never could pinpoint what was wrong. So the wear & tear of the years, then came on the OA.. no wonder I ended up with a new hip at such a young age.
My right SI joint was off by almost 3". After she made the first adjustment, she asked me to walk & for the first time, I walked like a normal person. It was overwhelming.
I am on week 2 of seeing her 3X per week now & she is teaching me how to walk normally. It's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. My body wants to waddle like a stiff, peg legged cowboy pirate. Every day I slowly feel different things going on as the correct parts awaken, the "on" parts slowly release, nerve pathways, blood flows etc. Today, I resumed my physio & for the first time, I did not have lower back & sacral pain. Everything was easier, the muscles engaged better & evenly.
I joined a local gym that offered the complimentary classes for my situation & the instructor will work with me to help me improve the mobility & strength in my hips & core.
Over the weekend when at work, I sat in the western saddle I was hoping I could purchase at some point (but my new hip was so stiff & sore sitting in it). And it was much more comfortable to sit in. So there's hope.
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