L BHR with Mr Treacy

[imgetinold]

Fantastic!  It's great to hear these positive outcomes, especially when the beginning wasn't the best.  Keep 'em coming.

[Dannywayoflife]

Fantastic!  It's great to hear these positive outcomes, especially when the beginning wasn't the best.  Keep 'em coming.

Thanks mate. The begining was a hard time for my but luckily my surgeon seems to have done his job to the best of his ability, that seems to be the biggest factor longterm. I'm sure that you'll be fine. Just think in 12 months time you'll be able to get back to your full activitys!

[rubyred]

I'm so pleased you're doing so well, Danny! Patience truly is key.

[Dannywayoflife]

Hay ruby thanks.
I've just had my 9week check at the roh. I didn't see Mr Treacy but one of his staff. He was quite surprised by my progress since he last saw me on mid December:-). I mainly asked questions about what activitys I should and shouldn't be doing. Basicly I'm now clear to do non impact stuff in the gym(which I've been doing already!) he suggested waiting until 12 weeks for me to get on my new concept2 rower simply because they generally like 12 weeks to pass to allow near full soft tissue healing. Although he said if it doesn't hurt or irritate me then I could row now but I dont think there's any harm in waiting a few more weeks!

[hernanu]

Danny, you are making great progress! Best fighting you've ever done, you're coming out on top. Congrats.

[Dannywayoflife]

Cheers hern! It's up there as one of the toughest mental fights I've ever had!

[Dannywayoflife]

Well 10 weeks today! And wow how things have moved along! As some of you might be aware from my posts in other parts of the site im now having the problem where i am having to think hang on im still only 10 weeks post op should i be doing that?
Im now able to put my own socks on and tie my own shoes and theres still loads more ROM left to return i can feel it! Im also back to doing stuff in the gym, im doing up to an hour of light cardio in the gym and some light hip strengthening weights. On alternate days im doing 30-45mins on my spinning bike at home.
As i say i feel pretty good at this point. Im still no where near 100% yet but i can now see that i should make a full recovery in the coming months.

[Dan L]

Congrats Danny, sounds like very positive progress.  Has to feel good in many ways, best wishes for continued improvement.

Thanks

[Dannywayoflife]

Thanks mate!

[Dannywayoflife]

Im now 11 weeks today. Progress is still happening. I do however seem to plateu for a few days then make progress suddenly.
Ive just had my mate over who is sorting my scar tissue with the sports massage and some of the releases etc were a lot easyier as my ROM has vastly improved in the last few weeks :)
I still get an ache and twinge here and there but im able to walk totally normally with no pain or limp. I thing the twinges and things i do get are just soft tissue related so as long as im careful they will heal with time.
Danny

[hernanu]

So you goal was twelve weeks, how do feel about meeting it now?

[Dannywayoflife]

I am set to return to work on the 17th of feb. So hopefully i should be in really decent shape by then. :)

[hernanu]

Looks to me like you're right in the pipe for that.

[Dannywayoflife]

Touch wood mate. I cant wait to feel totally normal though with no twinges and a full ROM etc. But each step at a time :)

[Dannywayoflife]

12 weeks today!
Well i have to say i have come on leaps and bounds in the last 12 weeks. At the moment i am doing fairly well. My walking is fairly normal most of the time but the last few days i have to say i heve had a fair bit of muscular aches and pains.
I think that the main thing that i need to work on to further my recovery is to strengthen all the really small stabiliser muscles back up. I think this is my main issue at the moment.
I still as ive said get stiff and aches and pains but i imagine that this is fairly normal?
My ROM is really coming on. I can bring my knees nearly all the way to my chest but in some planes of movement there is still some discomfort but i think this is also to be expected.
I have recently altered my rehab regimine. I have moved away from the cv at the gym and focused on trying to strengthen my leg back up so ive been doing remedial exersices at home and some light stretching. I feel that this has really made a difference to my recovery.

[PistolPete]

That's awesome Danny.  I'm glad everything is finally coming back together.  You must be so excited.  Are you still not seeing a PT and just doing it on your own?  I've been really lucky because my PT is awesome and really works me out hard. One thing he does with me is using a Bosu ball.  I get on that thing and then squat down low and hold a light medacine ball out in front of me and rotate side to side.  I hold it for 30 seconds and do 10 of these.  It REALLY works the smaller stabilizer muscles because they get overused trying to keep that Bosu ball level.  Another thing he has me doing which is great is a slide board.  I wear a sock over my nonoperated shoe and then slide out in side lunges and rear lunge.  It really gets things going.

Anyways, really glad you're making such great progress and I hope you continue in this positive swing.

[hernanu]

All right Pete! I'm doing the slide board too, the thing is awesome. I bought one on ebay, much lower priced than the commercial ones, and set it up at home. I'm doing the slide sock cover over my sneakers and just slide for a bit. I'm doing about 15 minutes (3 X 5) now, started at about 3 minutes. Excellent stabilizer exercise.

I also picked up some juggling balls, which help both my hips (the movement is constant, something I hadn't noticed before) and my eyes (I had lasik surgery about half a year ago).

Another good thing for the smaller muscles, I found is balancing on a pillow or a thick rubber mat, hold for 30 seconds at first - I'm up to 90 seconds now. Once that gets easier, take a soccer ball and holding it with both hands, do figure 8 in front of you as you balance.

Pete's Bosu ball sounds great - will have to try that.

In all, Danny your progress sounds like it's really speeding up. Don't worry about the muscular pains - you had to deal with a lot, now you're demanding more of your body, expanding ROM, more walking, more exercise, of course you'll ache.

[Dannywayoflife]

Thanks guys. Hern I think your correct. I suppose the muscular aches and pains are to be expected for a while yet. I'll try some of those exresices!
Pete I generally don't get on with physio's indeed I think the over zealous physio i saw early on is partly responsible for my initial poor progress. Indeed Mr Treacy told me to sack her off!
I am really excites that I should be able to get back to my sports in around 9-10 months time!

[Dannywayoflife]

Well 13 weeks today! I'm steadily progressing day by day. I can walk pretty much normally certainly the most normal for probably 2 years. Getting stronger all the time.
My mind though is a different Kettle of eggs. The report from the aaos is really doing my head in and might just be the straw that broke the cammels back.

[PistolPete]

Danny-  the problem with the internet and when you start doing research is that you will read negative things.  A good example is my brother took an antibiotic a few months ago and went online to research it AFTER he took it.  He was freaking out because everything was so grim.  He never had an issue with it at all but was freaking out because of all the bad things he read online.  You have your new hip and there is nothing you can do now but press forward.  Live your life now and enjoy your new hip.  If you need a revision down the road then so be it.  It's not the end of the world.  At least next time around you'll be much older so doing things you live wil HAVE to slow down anyways.  Don't sweat that report just focus on getting your life back.

I'm in the same boat but I tell you what I expect to have to replace this thing again at some point.  If I can make it into my 50's then it's a huge success.  If I make it longer then even better.  In the meantime I'm going to beat the crap out of this thing and get my life back.