to Eleanor Re: Rotated femur anyone?

[Guest guest]

Dear Eleanor,

Where did you have your operation done and who did it? I'm sorry to

hear that you're still having such problems.

Limpy

> This is from Eleanor again, still plodding/struggling on at five

months

> post-op. The good news is that I am beginning to walk better and

can

> hike fairly long (2miles) without too much difficulty, but slowly

using

> two sticks. Keep forgetting to take my cane with me when out

shopping,

> etc. but do like to have it for balance.

>

> The bad news is that I still get a lot of aches and pains at

night, and

> still some, but much less, and sometimes none, during the day.

These

> vary—are not in the hip joint ever, but can be in the thigh, under

the

> wound, in the groin, by the knee or shooting down the leg.

>

> Have just had an Irish physio visiting who gave me a wonderful work

> over. She immediately commented on how rotated my hip and walking

is.

> I have always been pigeon-toed since a child, and despite a parent

who

> made sure I had `corrective shoes' (in the fifties), and good

fitting

> shoes, still continued fairly pigeon-toed and have always assumed

that

> this rotation is what led to my OA. For some reason, I thought

the BHR

> would correct the rotation, but have been told it doesn't—

everything is

> just put back the same. She also found that my muscle under my

wound

> feels hard and congested. My ROM is still very bad—still can't

tie my

> laces and have trouble even putting on my pants. My operated leg

is ½

> inch longer, and was the same pre-op. When exercising, I am

finding it

> hard to differentiate my pelvic muscle, so often end up using my

back

> when I think I am moving my hip only—ergo exercise has been

useless.

>

> Has anyone else had this problem and what have you done about it

if you

> have? I really wasn't too bad at all pre-op. Feel much worse now,

> except for the lack of pain in the hip joint itself. My physio

friend

> has given me some new exercises which use my husband to help make

sure I

> use the correct muscles.

> Eleanor

> RBHR Nov 23/ 03

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