Where should I be 10 days post THR

Sounds as if you are progressing well. We are all different in so many ways that it would not really be realistic to tell you where you should be at ten days.

Take it as fast as you are comfortably with without overdoing it. Obviously you need to avoid falling down! I suggest that you concentrate on a good balanced walking gait, speed and distance comes with time.

Good luck

Richard

Hello! 10 days after the op I was still on morphine. I kept on thinking "I should be walking!" Looking back I can only say to myself "you should have been resting! I did rest, most of the time.

I did my physio exercises 3 times a day if I could manage it (often only once or twice), and I walked around very slowly on 2 crutches when I felt like it. Someone told me to rest and then move for 10 mins every hour whilst awake for first 2 weeks. Some people walk on 1 or no crutches after 2 weeks (where are they??) I didn't.

Do you have a physio? I really trust my physio and I do what she tells me to do with regards to 2 crutches, 1 crutches, 0 crutches. I trust her on the exercises more than I trust my surgeon. Without my physio I'd still be baffled over what I was "supposed" to be doing, I couldn't work it out on my own at all. For example she's told me that I can be on 1 crutch around the house now and outside for short distances, otherwise 2. I'm now 4.5 weeks. She also told me that because of my lack of muscles supporting the hip, I will be on 1 crutch at least until the 6 week mark if not beyond. I honestly don't know what I'd do without her!

I hope that's helpful. If you don't / can't have physio for any reason there are amazing people on this forum who are so kind and so helpful.

I am just one week post THR (anterior right hip).  I did not think I was getting any PT (guessing this is what you call phisio) but they came to my house the day after I got home (surgery on a Monday home on the Wednesday).  I was shocked to learn I was doing too much.  I was putting myself at risk of a blood clot by not elevating the majority of the time the first week.  The most important thing I do is toe pumps (25 per hour, every waking hour).  I also have exercises I do three times a day, walk for a bit every hour (I am using a walker for stability) and rest when necessary.  

Be good to yourself - go slower than you suspect.  Just because we can do certain things at this point does not mean we should be doing them.  Our bodies are healing on the inside in ways that we cannot imagine.

Best of luck

Sounds like your doing great!! I agree that my Physical Therapist has been great. I'm 4 and 1/2 weeks out and have very little pain. I'm on a cane but walk 30 mins each day without the cane(also some around the house). My gait isn't great yet. I walk a little like Walter Brennen from the old Westerns. By the end of the day I have some pain in my groin, but haven't taken any pain meds in 2.5 weeks. The PT is strengthening my muscles and increasing my ROM.

So pleased you are doing so well. My experience at 10 days was that I was sleeping a lot, still on 2 crutches but the pain was improving.

I was presented with a walking stick at 4week point physio. I used this around the house until I just "forgot" to use it.

It was as if I instinctively knew that I could manage without it as opposed to a conscious decision. For myself I think this was a confidence thing.

Your body with tell you what to do and when to do it as opposed to putting time scales on progress.

The physio I had was insistant that we should not measure our progress against someone elses. We are all individuals and will heal at different rates.

After my initial euphoria at getting rid of the pain I have tended to over do it causing some discomfort where I had none previously. I have had to ease off a little from my exercising to get back to where I was a couple of weeks ago.

I hope you continue your recovery well at a pace that is right for you.

Regards :-)

Dear angle in 10 days I was not even try the stair & walk by walker now am 19 monthes post op enjoing my pain free life

Pleas talk to your pt you will know where you should be my dear

Big hug