I'm nearly 9 weeks post op and I am waddling like a duck, I do my excersises and its getting no better, The physio said i waws to carry on with the excersises I was doing as I had added some from when I had brusitis. Has anyone else had this problem? All help would be greatly accepted. I can walk with one crutch no problem but I'm not quite confident enough to use a cane yet. I feel as if I'm letting the side down
Hugs to all
Kim
Hi Kim,
I was same as you. I stayed with a crutch because someone advised me it was more secure than a walking stick /cane (the crutch holds your arm). I used it till 4 mths p.o. I'm now 6 mths p.o. and it is only last 3 wks I am feeling back to normal. Still got swollen ankle which is worse when I walk to much. Don't rush it. Your body will do it in its own time.
Brenda xx
I am appraching 8 weeks and still waddle.... and I am using 2 crutches when outside. Indoors I am trying to walk without any aid... and concentrate on using my knees like a normal walker would.
Have gone from being a Penguin to Orangutan, and now waddling or my husband sings Wombles of Wimbledon, as I walk across the room.
You are not letting anyone down... we all get to the end result at our bodies time. Do not give up....
I get frustrated but then reflect on what I was like before the op... Pain, unable to do any walking.. now Pain nearly gone only op healing pain.... and I am getting out and about walking.
Eeek! Know what you mean and you are not letting anyone down.
I waddle because I don't feel confident but zi keep trying heel of foot followed by ball of foot and hold my head up when walking. Give it a try. Good luck
I too am still waddling, it's made me depressed as I thought I would be back to normal after 12 weeks po. My physio says I've got to strengthen my glutes, so keep doing the exercises, but it's quite painful sometimes. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who waddles lol. Keep up the exercises.
I am 7-1/2 weeks po. Sometimes when I feel myself waddling, I try to stand straight and walk heel to toe. I feel that helps.
Estou 9 semanas pós-operatório e ainda ando um pouco mancando quando me levanto de sentado. Isso pode ajudar, mas observe a posição dos seus pés. Depois que fiz a substituição do quadril direito, percebi que meu pé ficava virado para fora. Agora, quando ando, tenho certeza de que meu pé está alinhado e não virado para fora. Um bom exercício também é, quando estou em pé fazendo flexões de joelho, garantir que os joelhos fiquem sobre os dedos do pé número dois (ao lado do dedão) e não virem para dentro. Meu problema no tensor da fascia lata também melhorou. Isso realmente ajuda. Espero que isso faça sentido. Seria interessante ouvir os pensamentos de outras pessoas sobre isso.
This all resonates with things my physio has said too.
How many times have we heard - our-bodies-are-different-we-all-have-our-own-pace-of-recovery-don't-fret!
And of course it's true - but we all have some innate competitive edge -whether with others or some version of ourselves (likely 20 years younger too) and of course, stripped of many of the responsibilities and tasks in which we take pride, we want better, dan it better at walking and mosteoporosis any thing else!
My experience with hip #1 (with other hip limping alongside) wasn't great. And I used the walker (Rollator for some of you) fr quite a while on the advice of my physiotherapist. She believes that it helped me to slow down and practice what several here talk about: walking slowly through heel and toe and trying to land through the middle to outer toes. She also had me look carefully at my alignment of knees and toes as Polly describes.
I got pretty decent at much of this (even with one still punky hip).
Now I am going on 3 weeks post my 2nd hip and I am really itching to practice this all, but I am partial weight-bearing for another three weeks (Linda D - I don't know how you kept sane with no weight-bearing for 6 weeks). I find it very hard (okay ... not to be coy, impossible) to employ these same techniques while trying to channel my weight through my arms and hands and walker).
Hhhmmm .. thinking I hear murmurs of that P******* word ... and I am starting to have the same visceral reaction to it as the S*** word if used in any weather report prior to November 1st!
Well .. thats enough of a rant for our Thanksgiving holiday - time to stuff the turkey! I wish you and yours a beautiful day with so much to be thankful for .. including the company of this lovely forum.
L
Boa sorte com sua recuperação. Parece que você tem muita paciência. :o)
There is that word again (shuddering, next thing you know that white stuff will start falling)!
Thanks Polly. I hope Thanksgiving dinner here does not derail me too much - I usually waddle a bit more the following day.
Good luck with your recovery.
PS. - did you even know that you had an IT band prior to this surgery. I continue to be astonished at how much new knowledge I am acquiring about my body through this journey.
Hugs,
L
Hi Kim I am near 10 weeks post op LTHR and I got severe bursitis in the operated leg knee and it hurts like hell. They gave me a cortione shot and that did not help. Had a bone scan and it showed the knee is shot and full of osteoarthritis, funny never had a problem with that knee before surgery. Now he told me to coool down the exercises a bit but I am going back to phsio for heat and tens machine and see if that works, but I can hardly walk at times. The hip feels great but my knee got messed up in the process. Guess the osteo was there but it never botherd me. I know it mean a new knee in the future but I had 2 surgeries this year and yes I am waddling.. Godd Luck
Hugs June
My surgeon told me that the most important exercise to reduce and eliminate waddling is side leg raises. He said even if you only do this one exercise, it really works.
Stand next to chair or counter touching your unoperated side to the chair. Lift your operated leg out sideways and hold for count of 5. Do a set of 10 twice a day.
You are not allowed to do this before 4 weeks post op.
Kim, have you got rid of the pre-operation OA pain .... if so, you are a winner already . Personally I don't really care if I waddle or limp a bit, it's so much better that pain I had before.
It's like when people insist on having anterior surgery over lateral or posterior, what matters is the outcome of the surgery, not where the scar is.
If you haven't built up confidence yet, well that's your speed of recovery. we all keep trying to compare ourselves to others,and foret we are all so different in healing rates.
Try not to let it worry you - easier said than done, I know, I get bouts of depression over my hip.
Best wishes
Graham - 🚀💃
Canadá - Esse foi um dos exercícios que me mostraram quando eu me levantei pela primeira vez, na sala de exercícios do hospital, explicado para mim, mesmo que você consiga mover apenas o tornozelo cerca de 10 centímetros do outro tornozelo, isso é tudo o que precisamos por enquanto, e não até que doa, mas apenas até sentir o estiramento. No segundo dia, consegui mover cerca de 20 centímetros, e depois disso, todos os dias melhorava um pouco mais. Interessante as diferenças.
Também me fizeram fazer - ficar em pé na perna boa e esticar a perna operada para trás, eles ficaram chocados com a distância que eu conseguia girar a perna operada diretamente para trás de mim. Acho que assustei os fisioterapeutas com o medo de deslocamento, mas eu fiquei encantado, tive problemas reais com a marcha porque não conseguia passar o dedão do pé além do tornozelo há muitos anos, gastei uma fortuna com fisioterapia por causa de tendões aparentemente rígidos nas pernas.
Só durante a cirurgia minha teoria foi comprovada correta, que eu tinha osso morto/danificado na articulação do quadril devido a um acidente ocorrido 30 anos antes, e não eram tendões, mas sim um problema ósseo.
hi kim,
I know what you mean .... I am many moons post-op from 2 THR surgeries and still waddle at times .... many years of bad posture and walking has ingrained bad habit - to correct this takes a lot of energy and thinking how to walk - I know for myself that I became very rigid, trying to do the steps right - so much to think about - straight posture, yet relaxed in the shoulders, soft knees, take step heel to toe, ....your body needs to find her balance - we just want to go forward !
it is so challenging, isn't it ?
don't worry too much about it - use the crutch for as long as you need it -
you are doing great, darling -
big warm hug
renee
Thank you Renee
I don't know what I'd do without you, your replies are always warm and encouraging, that hug feels like a real one xxx
Returning the hug 💜💜💜
Kim