That should really read "walking in water" !! Saw the Physio this week (I'm 5 weeks post op) and she said it would be good to do the exercises I'm doing in water. So today I went to the local pool and walked up and down and did my exercises. She suggested I walked backwards - which was really hard work! Lovely to be in water though 😀😀 - it seemed to benefit my scar too. Need to wait a few more weeks before I can start Pilates, which Physio recommends as my pelvis is awry ( from broken ankle years ago).
Hope everyone is healing well 😊😊😊
Yes, exercising in water is great. Keep up the good work and enjoy!
I just loved being in the water today - I felt much more stable and stronger than on land! I "swam" too - using just my arms and keeping my legs straight. So refreshing 😊🏊🏻🏊🏻🏊🏻😊
Abby - congratulations, isn't the water wonderful, the weight of it makes you work harder, without even realizing you are doing it, or not too much.
I am still doing my exercises 11 months post THR, the specialist was most impressed, with my efforts to make myself strong and healthy, which I do believe I am doing too the best of my ability.
Don't overdoo it, you will feel it if you do.
Another exercise my physio gave me, is stepping sideways, in the water, first one way and then back the other way, check with your physio before you start, or maybe physio will suggest.
Hi, Lyn - well done on keeping up the exercises for so long! Yes, the physio suggested I did the sideways walking too - that was ok, but the walking backwards was quite an effort. I only did 20 mins in total, which is what physio recommended.
Still struggle with backwards walking, it causes me quite alot of pain, but its not coming from my hip I do believe, but from my back.
I have 3/4 inch difference in leg length, and that is part of the reason I do so much in the pool, as I struggle to walk any distance, with any comfort anywhere else, the more I do the more pain, and then, I lose control of my foot, and start tripping. Not good, all only started after my left THR.
I have come to the conculsion that the exptra length that was added in my surgery has been part of the cause, but stenosis of the lumbar spine was there and may have eventually caused problems, but the extra length has just brought nerve impingment, on earlier.
Poor you re the leg length problem. I thought I had different leg lengths after the op, but Physio says it's my pelvis that needs releasing. Have you tried a heel raise in your shoe?
Yes have a shoe lift.
My problem has been confirmed by Long Leg X-Ray.
Nonsense that I had to go to that length to prove that i had an extra long leg after surgery, but thats what it came down to.
Everybody in the hospital and even my own GP, kept telling me there was nothing wrong, and I kept complaining that I had a problem, just didn't feel right. Nobody checked with the lying on back, bent knees and ankles to bum test, or as close as you can get, you can see the difference pretty clearly, with that little check.
New specialist, saw him last week, that nobody in the hospital had used that test, when I complained.
Ah interesting. Good you got it clarified so you know what you're working with.
Abby - What really gets to me, is I have had to do all this research myself.
Track down the X-ray clinic that does the long leg x-ray.
Work out that I needed a shoe lift, still not sure still that I have that correct, or thats its firm enough, or even high enough.
The Dr's have I sure tried to fob me off with there's nothing wrong with you, some have even suggested it was in my head, well the x-ray proves my claim.
I felt like beating the Dr over the head with the x-rays, just hours earlier he had told me "its in your head you are going to have to learn to live with it", my reply was prove me wrong then, end result I proved him wrong.
I am frustrated and angry because a little bit of honesty and the knee check on the day after my surgery, and it could have been corrected then.
I believe they have been negligent, and they should have checked at the time what I was claiming.
Now everything has been stretched they are telling me it is going to be very hard to correct, and the end result of a revision, is the hip could be very unstable, and difficult to keep the ball and cup together until the muscles take up, danger of dis-location.
Sounds very frustrating - well done for persevering. Fingers crossed for a good outcome - with no dislocation!
Hi Abby good to hear all going well. Bet it felt great to be exercising in the water. Great for the muscles. I'm donning my swim wear tomorrow!! Given go ahead to swim by my surgeon. Front crawl for the time being but can't wait. Will give the walking backwards ago too!! Bestsishes Annie x
Hi Annie - yes it was just great being in the water; I felt the best I had for the last 5 weeks!! Hoping to go again tomorrow if I can get a lift. Good luck with the backwards walking!
Abby