If your pain is like this and the X-ray pictures shows impairment of your hip joint then you are an eligible candidate for total hip replacement surgery and you should seriously consider this surgery.
If you are: -
- Having severe pain that can be harmful to your work, but can also adversely affect your daily routine activities.
- Suffering from continuous pain even after a longer period of rest
- Notice disturbing pain also when sitting or standing still
- Having severe pain in your hip that disturbs your sleep
- Taking pain killers but they are ineffective or give you relief only for a very short period
- Suffering from increasing painful stiffness alonwith persisting pain in hop joints
- Taking treatment for several months like (anti-inflammatory medicines, physiotherapy etc) and it did not give relief in the persisting pain.
What are the “patient fears” involved in delaying “Total Hip Replacement Surgery”?
- deterioration of joint tissue
- progression of joint disease
- possibility of a deformed joint
- Patients who are healthier when they get their surgery often do much better than those who have waited and allowed their joints to worsen.
- fear of the unknown
- fear of surgery
- fear of ‘losing’ a body part
- fear of the post-operative surgery pain
- fear that they may end up worse off than before they started
Doctors and surgeons may make recommendations, but the call is finally yours. As in many medical situations, the recommendations of your surgeon should be taken seriously. That is why doctors and surgeons say “surgery early is usually better than surgery later”.
“Do not delay” the hip joint replacement surgery and get it done faster to obtain certain great advantages: -
- Hip replacement improves quality of life.
- Age is no barrier to hip replacement benefits.
- Hip replacement is cost effective.
- High rate of patient satisfaction associated with hip replacement
- The artificial hip often improves the movements in a hip joint that has become increasingly stiff from the effects of long term arthritis and this permits the patient to resume at first gentle activity and then their favourite leisure hobbies
- Improves mobility
- Independence of arthritis sufferers
Megan Green was a typical American teenager. She loved fashion and socialising with her friends. But she always had trouble with her weight. She tried every diet, and went to the gym, but nothing seemed to work. Finally, she turned to surgery and has now lost 50lbs. Megan was 19 when she underwent a gastric band operation after tipping the scales at a dangerous 18st 5lbs – and joined a growing army of American youngsters going under the knife to beat obesity.
