Kneeling after thr

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5 months post op I am uncomfortable kneeling and can't push up with my operated leg to get up.It is painful to lean back on my heels,feels like I am stretching the muscles.I am still afraid of dislocation and think this is making me tense and unwilling to try things.Anyone relate to this?I am 64 btw

Janet

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    Have you continued with all your exercises? It takes  months to get back the flexibility and strength for most people. If you stopped the exercises, then that will be holding you back. It is almost certainly the actual fact that your are stretching muscles that are fighting you back! 

    If you aren't exercising the muscles enough, or in the right way, then you need to get back to a full range of regular exercises. The strength can come back. But it takes working on. If that doesn't help, ask your GP to refer you  for further physio. They can check that you have the right range of exercises, and are doing them properly; and advise on Amy others that you need to build up the muscle tone.

    For what it is worth, kneeling is one of the hardest things to do anyway! It isn't a natural resting  position and uses a lot of muscles to build the position, and to move from it. And my very, very good personal physio told me that these days, unless there is a surgical failure, dislocation from everyday activities (even strenuous ones) is very rare and, more often than not, just bad luck. So there isn't any point in being wary  or tense, because unless you do something very silly (which, for me, was something like thinking I could go back to judo - which I didn't expect anyway, but just so you understand the magnitude of what she meant by silly) dislocation is very unlikely and very unlucky.

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      Thanks for your encouragement.I admit I haven't been exercising as much although I walk every day and have started on exercise bike.I only got one physio session and the waiting time is 12 weeks!

      I am stepping up my exercises.Got some good ones on u tube.Need to get my other hip done this summer so my first leg needs to be strong.

      Thank you for all the other replies hippies.

      Janet

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    Hi Janet, im agree with Beth,

    Have you doing exercises ? Try do water excesice in pool that

    help. I was sent to PT in hospital and I did 4 weeks hydro therapy

    and I got some exercise to do home. Im 3 months and im OK

    with kneeling. I still doing excesices every day least 4 time a day.

    Also walking but walking it's hard now because is 40 degree here in Australia. I try early morning just quick walk.Like Beth say

    dislocation is rare unless you do something síly. My PT sad I can do most of thing but have to be careful. Try some excesice in pool like walking, swiming but not frog legs. It help. Here in Australia you are having physio after 6 weeks for 3 to 6 weeks in gym or hydro therapy in hospital rehabilitation building. It will take time to build muscles it will not hapen over night . It is brutal operation and everthing take time. Try the water excesice it help me lots.

    Good luck hug Madla💗

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      Hyrdotherapy does depend on where you are. In the UK it is very hit and miss. Our hospital (which I wouldn't have gone to anyway - that's a whole other story) has a waiting list a mile long and you have to be almost immobile to get on it. The second one has closed, to shortly be followed by the hospital!

      ?I am fortunate in that I have private cover and there is a private facility nearby - but it is the only one of it's kind for many miles. So I get it, but I don't know of anyone else who ever has - certainly not of the NHS. Even on private cover, I got two physio appointments and they were less than useless. But becuase I have a complex range of issues I get a personal physio cost at 50% on an ongoing basis, and pay the other half myself. It's worth every penny.

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    Hi Janet. I am the same as you but 47. My surgeon said I had a complex hip replacement as they had to cut out a full piece of muscle to get to the joint. Then put it back in. Also I was I. Pain for 12 years as the doctors said I was too young to have the surgery. I have an extreamly weak left thigh muscle and have to do intensive physio to. iLife the muscle up. Maybe you should see about do this also.
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    Do you have much call for that position? I'm 63 and can't recall the last time I leaned back on my heels in a kneeling position! Mind you, I have carpal tunnel syndrome in y knees so gave up that practive a few years ago. 

    The surgeon said it take 4-5 months for total healing, so maybe if you did some specific physio, you could gain that ability back...?

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    I had to do CPR class and had to get on my hands and knees for the 1st time.I must admit that between the knee and hip replacement on that side I was nervous.It hurt though and it hurt for about a week thereafter. Be careful,don't push it.

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