Hello Saad,
My Doctor (Dr. Dyreby, Rhinelander WI) trained with Mr. Mcminn. It’s kind of interesting, when I first officially met with him, back in June of 2008 (I personally know the doc and had many off the record conversations with him about resurfacing prior) he stated that because of my size (6’4”, 230 pounds) and the relative newness of the operation he would want me on two crutches for at least 6 weeks. This seemed very restrictive compared to what I was reading from patient experience on Surface Hippy. I actually pursued using a different doctor for many months, but the insurance company made it very difficult. Again after another out of the office conversation with Dr. Dryeby where I learned he had again just met with Dr. Mcminn, he had changed some of his post op protocols. I think it is a combination of gaining more experience and building off what other surgeons have experienced and share. But I learned that I would be able to be weight bearing as soon as my body could handle it, also none of the restriction normally put on total hip replacement patients would apply. I am completely paraphrasing here and I am not a doctor so please someone correct me if I mis-speak, according to what I remember from my conversation with Dr. Dryeby, Dr. Mcminn and others had brought forth studies that potentially showed that weight bearing on the joint and bones could actually be beneficial. Most problems with hip resurfacing show up in the first 6 months, many times it is a femoral neck fracture so the key is making that bone stronger. My understanding is that means weight bearing, but NO impact. And it’s best to have NO impact exercise for 12 months. Most of us have been babying these joints for years leading up to the surgery and the body makes natural compensations by shifting work to the good leg, thus even though you may see no muscle atrophy you still could be losing bone strength.
Again I am not a doctor, but as an engineer this makes total sense to me, so even though it is going to be very hard I am going to listen to my doctor and avoid impact sports for at least a year, and do everything possible to get that bone strength back to normal.
I think post op protocols are going to be a ever changing item as doctors gain more experience. I went with a resurfacing doc who would be called inexperienced by most, however this doc has done thousands and thousands of total hips and I probably know and have talked to 10-20 patients or family of patients some hips, some knees, and even two resurfacing patients and no one ever had a bad word to say, plus everyone I talked to including other doctors talked about how meticulous he is. I even happen to know the medical device salesman who supplies the drills saws and tools to my surgeon and he said I couldn’t go wrong with this doc. That coupled with knowing him personally and the knowledge I gained from this site gave me the confidence to go ahead with the surgery with only minimal reservation, and most off that was directed internally as in “do I really need to be doing this.”
Anyway good luck, I hope things go well for you.
Mike
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