Leg length and straitening

Foot turning inwards sounds awfully familiar, I believe its due to the weakened muscles, remember they have really knocked you around to dislocate the joint and then put it back together again.

Do your physio, hope they gave you a handout, and what to do and what not to do, if not look up post hip replacement exercises, and look for coastal orthopedics in western australia, same booklet as I got at my hospital in queensland, nice colorful pictures of real people, full of hints.

Take your pain killers as you need them, and get lots of rest with you legs up, on bed worked for me.

10 - 12 inches is about what they need to get at that joint, mine is the same, with time it vanishes, to just a faint white line, joint is deeper inside you than you think.

 

HI Sandy now is the most important time to do the bed exercise squeezing your whole leg into the bed and holding it there in sets of three at first then in sets of five to seven to strengthen you legs again and promote internal healing of the operation, it is also quite tiring and will help you sleep which is also so important right now.

The pain gets easier, and improvements come slowly at first but continue for ages, I am still getting stronger after two years, y8ou are on the right road and have to work at it to get better now.

Sounds like me! Anterior??

That's a primo tape and the incision is glued. They will remove that at about 3 weeks. I could shower with it. I had a couple small spots "open" a bit and they took a lot longer to heal.

My foot turned inward a lot as well and my knee became very sore (still is) as those muscles really took a hit and will take a long time to heal. I'm 11 weeks post op and still have to pay attention  to proper placement of my foot when I'm walking....

Best wishes. 

Sandy

Sounds great that you were home 28 hours post surgery. My incision is rather longer as it was revision surgery and initially it was very pronounced with quite a deep v along most of its length. But 8 weeks on it is almost flat and much less obvious.I think glued incisions (mine was just stitched) are meant to produce a smaller scar.

It will take a while for your leg to be normal again but concentrating on walking as normally as possible is good.

Persevere with your exercises and walking and you will keep getting better

Mike

Hi Sandy, I was surprised that my incision was an upside L shape and wassimilar in length to yours. My foot turned outwards and my surgeon said it was down to muscles. Gave me an exercise to do and it worked. 2years post op today and it feels great.  At the time thought I was never gonna recover. Mine was dissolvable stitches 

Thanks for your replies! The more I read the more I realize the seeming variations of the surgery and its recovery. I think I would have felt less anxiety if the surgeon had explained what he did or didn't do when he was in there ' switching things out'! 

I did have a group P.T. Session before I left but barely remember it so took the groups advice and looked up exercises. " I hope the extra long incision and ' blue print on my leg' mean extra time and extra careful surgery🏃🏼

Hi Sandy, 

warm welcome to the best hippies forum ...

I am not sure if I understand your question correctly --- is your foot turned inward and you have a problem to turn it outward (straight) ? or the other way around ---

After 2nd (L) THR my foot is positioned a bit inward and I was told told be aware of that and try to turn it so that it is more straight - it is a weird feeling but not painful ..

You just had major invasive surgery and your leg was pulled, twisted and pushed around in not such a gentle way ... were you told that it is cemented?  

Impressive scar, darling but not unusual - is it stapled ?

If you are up to it and curious enough, you might want to have a look at the live surgery on you tube .. not for the faint hearted though - there is also an animated version which show the procedure in a less gruesome way ... after I watched it (the live version) I was in shock and awe - skill of surgeon and team, and how my body is able to heal from this trauma ...

Why were you discharged after only 28 hours post-op?   Did you have anterior approach ? that usually is far less invasive and has a much smaller scar ...

Can you call your surgeon's office or the ward and find out more?

Big  warm hug

renee