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Tense Muscles

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Dsilk05
Dsilk05

Hi all, any of you feel your hip, buttocks and thigh muscles tense up?

I’m a very tense person but I can tell my muscles would tense up prior to surgery in a way to protect myself from falling or to get around walking with the joint pain. 

Now I feel my muscles tense up after my THR I think to protect my leg from further hurt or injury. Plus to hold myself better while walking. 

I think that why my right hip (which I had THR a yr ago on) has gotten a bit painful. I’m sure I’m using the right leg to compensate for my recent THR on my left. 

I finally took a pain pill yesterday to walk more comfortably and I noticed how relaxed those muscles were. 

How Can I relax those muscles without meds? 

It’s been too long walking around tensed up like that and my body I’m sure is used to it. I think I would feel less uncomfortable with this current THR if it weren’t for that. 

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    Dsilk05

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    Thank you all for your comments/suggestions. I will take the pain meds when needed.

     I do a lot of resting but as I’m reclined in bed I also feel my buttocks tightened up so I relax them and then later they are tight again. 

    Wish I could soak in hot tub but incision not ready. 

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