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link to How To Choose A Surgeon For Hip Replacement: A PT’s View

How To Choose A Surgeon For Hip Replacement: A PT’s View

As a physical therapist, having done thousands of home rehabilitation treatments of total hip recipients, starting within 48 hours of discharge from their 2-day hospital stay, one thing is perfectly...

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link to Speed Up Recovery After Total Hip Replacement: (a PT’s Advice)

Speed Up Recovery After Total Hip Replacement: (a PT’s Advice)

After seeing hundreds, if not thousands of total hip replacement patients in the past 40 years, be they in the hospital immediately after surgery, in their homes a day or two after surgery, or in the...

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link to Total Hip Precautions: Anterior, Posterior & Lateral Approaches

Total Hip Precautions: Anterior, Posterior & Lateral Approaches

As a licensed physical therapist I have seen hundreds, if not thousands, of total hip replacement surgeries over the more than 4 decades of treating patients as a hospital-based physical therapist,...

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link to Can I Sit In A Recliner After Hip Replacement? A PT’s Advice

Can I Sit In A Recliner After Hip Replacement? A PT’s Advice

“Can I sit in my recliner chair” is a question almost every total hip replacement patient asks, when I see them in their home as a physical therapist to start their home program, about two days...

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link to Crossing Legs After Total Hip Surgery: (A PT’s Complete Guide)

Crossing Legs After Total Hip Surgery: (A PT’s Complete Guide)

Over the many years that I, as a physical therapist, have seen patients with a total hip replacement, the instruction the patient typically does not understand is the instruction: “Don’t cross...

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link to Stairs After Total Hip Replacement: A Physical Therapy Guide

Stairs After Total Hip Replacement: A Physical Therapy Guide

As a physical therapist seeing home-bound total hip replacement patients immediately after hospital discharge, I see many patients with two-story homes that elect to reside on the first floor of the...

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