Re: new thought about leg length-clarifying

[Guest guest]

Hi Chris...

Just to be clear, I do indeed lean left. San Francisco boy, you

know. And to further clarify: I didn't intend to suggest that all

hip problems were the result of a leglength disparity. I've often

wondered in my case, though, whether leg length disparity might

actually have been a factor in incurring the injury that brought me

here. And from there I started to wonder whether the subtle

unbalance of a gait with uneven legs might over time cause the OA

that got many of us into this mess. And, as I said was only my

curiousity...and my bent toward sick and twisted irony.

Forgive me... I'm out here on the edge of the left.

All the best,

Alan

-- In surfacehippy , " Roche "

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> Hey Alan,

> In my own case it was a disease that left the femoral head

> necrotic. And my left leg was shorter by about 3 mm before the

> surgery. I also figured the hip went bad following all the years of

> liberal bias on the west coast. We do tend to lean left....

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> > Hey, Hippies...(docs especially, please chime in)

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> > My question of all who now find post-op leg length disparity: Is

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> > possible that the problem that got you to the point of needing a

> > resurf was an undetected or undiagnosed developmental/congenital

> > disparity in leg length.

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> > It's fairly commonly known that bodies do not develop

> symmetrically,

> > so what's to say that our two legs didn't develop at slight

> different

> > lengths as we grew, and that the resurf actually returns the leg

> to

> > the real length it was before the physical problem that required

> > surgery. It may seem perverse (and I certainly could be wrong),

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> > wouldn't it be remarkable if the surgery, in restoring the hip,

> > actually also returned us to the problem that caused the hip to

> fail

> > in the first place?

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> > Hobble on Hippies...

> > Alan