I am 56 and underwent bi-lateral hip resurfacing at HSS by Dr. Su on March 4, 2014. Surgery time was an amazing 3.5 hours. In addition to arthritis in both hips, I had significant deformity to my left femoral head and socket and leg shortening with affected the alignment of my entire pelvic region. Dr Su put it this way to me "you were a challenging case". BTW, two other decent orthopedic surgeons I consulted with wouldn't consider doing hip resurfacing on me.
I managed to maintain an athletic lifestyle with a lot of time spent skiing at a high level. I raced as a teenager, continuing into collegiate racing and in to my forties. Over the years, as a free skier, I've skied extremely difficult terrain throughout the US and Europe.
At ten months post op, I'm back. In fact, I'm technically skiing better than ever and there are things that I can now do on ski's (solid snowplow) that I have not been able to do comfortably since I developed Legg Calves Perthes at age 8 or 9.
Surfacehippy helped me find great information about surgical choices, including feedback from others that successfully underwent hip resurfacing after suffering from childhood Legg Calves Perthes Disease.
Thank you.