Leg length descrepancy
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2 weeks post op THR, now have right leg 1 inch longer then left....what should I do?
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Posted , 8 users are following.
2 weeks post op THR, now have right leg 1 inch longer then left....what should I do?
0 likes, 9 replies
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jackie56101 mike999
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Take care let us know how your doing
Jackie
mike999
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valerie190541 mike999
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Good luck, Valerie
Whalie mike999
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good luck with it
whalies
Sredni393 mike999
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seriously, it take ages for things to even up. How can such a surgery be precise as there's swelling and everything out of place. It kind of finds it's own level and there is no exact time frame. Sometimes if you're lucky it will be identical, other people find they have 1/2or 1 cm. mine started as more than an inch and now, well, I can't tell as my socket is too huge fir my body and therefore my posture hasn't stabilised to one position... The operated hip is wider and thrown my skeleton out so I wear a raise in one shoe. You do get used to the asymmetry as there's not much else to be done. The body adapts to a lot of assaults to it. You're early days
ceboyd mike999
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My surgeon was very clear to tell me that my legs were the same length after surgery. glad he did because it's taken months and months to rebalance out and the thing that helped the most was getting back on my skis as you must weight both of them evenly or one just flops around.
I do think those of us who either have the apparent discrepency (the majority I'm told) and those poor souls who do get a length difference, are in for a longer road to recovery than those whose bodies aren't all skewed and screwed up.
cariad62 mike999
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Because of 'muscle memory' I will have to go for a couple more appointments to top up the treatment, but the expectation is that after three treatments the muscles should stay relaxed and most of the problem will be sorted once and for all.
Basically, over the years of pain and limping due to the arthritic hip, the muscles in my back that support the pelvis had tightened up, particularly on the right side. Once they are relaxed, the pelvic tilt causing most of the perceived leg length discrepancy goes. My specialist and physio had both said I should either learn to live with it or wear an orthotic in the opposite shoe, but I knew in my gut that there was something not right and I am really glad I followed my instincts. To be walking around this weekend almost normally has been amazing.
kathryn42557 mike999
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mike999
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time will tell...