From digging around on the site, it appears that resurfacing the hip definitely helps with the range of motion, but not always with back pain. I'm hoping to get some additional insight on your experiences.
While my xrays look horrible, I'm not taking any drugs and doing a variety of alternative therapies that keep my pain to a minimum.
When I am lying down, I'll experience more pain (dull throbbing pain that will sometimes wake me up or keep me awake). Most of the pain is felt in the backside of my glut instead of the front side. Every once in a while, I'll get a sharp pain while walking, but it is not even once a week.
If I try to do some stretching exercises, I notice significant tightness in my pelvis and low back when I try to do internal and external rotation with my hip. I'm guessing those muscles, tendons and ligaments are tight due to compensation patterns. I do walk with a limp from being bone on bone and only have 6 degrees internal rotation and 16 degrees external (but believe that has improved recently).
Please let me know what your experience has been with your range of motion and the difference that has made in the other areas of your body (knees, low back, pelvis, sacroiliac joint). I know it will take time for my body to readjust from all the compensation patterns, but want to know if it is likely that I'll experience improvements with the tightness and discomfort in the other areas too.
Please share as it is going to be another important component in my "when" decision making process. I had surgery for a severely ruptured disc 5 months ago, so I don't want these compensation patterns to negatively impact an already compromised area. I have had some knee pain, but the things I am doing have helped that for the moment.
Thanks for all the insights you've given me on other posts. This message board is great.