Dr Chow experiences?
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Anyone go to Dr Chow for their hip replacement? I have to do a revision for my BHR device, as my body is not handling the metallic ions. I am very interested in Dr Chow and the Super Path approach.
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gerriberri66 vbirddogs
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gerriberri66 vbirddogs
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Having problems with this site this evening. I had Superpath done by Dr Chow 6 weeks ago. See if you can search Superpath as I’ve logged my entire experience on this website. The surgery was easy, my recovery has been amazing.. don’t want to be redundant for people on here that I’ve been in contact with on the other forum. Let me know if you can find it. 👀 Gerri
vbirddogs gerriberri66
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gerriberri66 vbirddogs
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Good Morning Vbirdogs,,
?My Superpath experience has been amazing. I live in Nevada and work as a Realtor. This has given me access to many different people from all over the city, so I'm always asking who did their replacements (obviously if we are talking about that stuff). I had a surgeon in mind, that I went to see to establish a relationship with in case I had a hip emergency. At that point, every now and then my leg would just give way and if I ended up needing emergency surgery, that I wanted to have chosen the Dr. He has been doing the mini posterior approach for many years and is very successful with that. I was thrilled that he did it in his own surgical center and you recover (3 days) in surgical suites. Having never had any surgery before, I loved the thought of not going into a hospital. That evening I went on line to research his approach. Mind you, originally when I was going to have this done, my thought was totally anterior... I've known a lot of people who have had very successful anterior surgeries. I'm very big on due diligence and started reading everything I could.. I started hearing about the risks of anterior (not to say there aren't risks with every surgery), but risks that I wasn't comfortable with. Doing my research on the surgeon's procedure here led me to Superpath. Since I am NOT a Dr, I had a couple of friends in the medical field research further for me, because to me it sounded like the way to go. My friends agreed with me, and I made an apt to see Dr Chow with 3 pages of questions. Anyway... as you know the rest is history. I do not know any other person who has had superpath. I believe that most people would not necessarily travel out of state to have their surgery done, unlike me, who would travel where ever if I felt that was the best option for me. It was fortunate that Dr Chow and the hospital were in network as well. I loved the fact that no muscles,tendons cut, nor the hip dislocated. I loved that there were no restrictions. (It's almost hard to believe). But I am living proof that everything was amazingly easy. The recovery process has been superfast. I saw another Agent I know who had his hip done with the surgeon I was going to use.. He had his done maybe Aug? He was still limping when I saw him walking in Dec, and he said he was an athlete. I called him to ask how long he went to PT and he said 3 months.
?Every person and their body is in different stages when they have this surgery. I was not bone on bone, and wasn't in any pain. But I couldn't walk any distance, showing 2 story houses was difficult and it was just inevitable that I was going to need this done. So I choose to have it done before it was totally painful, and I was healthy which would help the healing process. As I'mm sure you read, I'm doing things already that I haven't done in 8 years, The hip feels totally natural and I couldn't have asked for a better experience. I also trusted Dr Chow 1000%..given he invented the procedure and has done thousands of them over 11 years.
?If you would like to talk to me, private message me and I will send you my phone number.
Hope this helps. G
Shelligirl vbirddogs
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I know this is an old thread but I am needing a total hip replacement and wondered if you ended up using Dr. Chow and what your experience was. I have an appointment to meet with him soon.