Hello, I'm new to this forum.
I've read how many people with hip resurfacing is able to go hiking over rough terrain and have a great time exploring the Great Outdoors. But I've found almost nothing on THR patients doing the same, or even attempting it. I've visited two surgeons and asked them if I didn't qualify for a resurfaced hip and had to settle for THR, should I attempt to go hiking on rough terrain, leaping over fallen trees, climbing in and out of deep ravines, climbing hills and large boulders, etc,. They didn't respond, and looked at me as if I was asking on some exorbitant ambition,
instead they told me I could play golf and swim, and that was it. Swimming is fine with me, but I don't play golf. Playing golf appears to be a sort of stereotypical sport THR patients play (so many ads on the internet showing gleeful, elderly men, supposedly hip patients, swinging golf irons into the sunset.)
Are THRs so fragile that all a person can do with them is play golf and swim?
I love the Great Outdoors, I'll be very sad
if I had to give up hikes into the National Parks and other venues. but I'm reluctant to risk my hips going hiking, easily the brittle limits of a total hip, and having the bones attached to them damaged or hurt, becoming more of an invalid that I'm now. Some people I know treat their THRs as if they were made of glass and go around as if walking over eggshells. With great grief, I'll do the same if I had to. I should avoid a second operation. An accident hurting my hips, or leaving me stranded and broken in some gulch or trail, because I overextended myself or acted foolishly is better to avoid.
Thanks in advance for any response.