Your surgeon or therapist will tell you how much weight to put on your leg.
Exercises for hip surgery patients.
Call your surgeon if.
Don t let your knee roll inward or outward.
Repeat 10 more times.
Perform three sets of 10 three times a day.
Lying down on the bed slide the heel of one foot up toward your buttocks.
Stand comfortably and erect with your weight evenly balanced on your walker or crutches.
You can do this exercise 3 or 4 times a day.
Ankle pumps lie on your back.
Hold this bent knee position for 15 seconds and repeat the bend 10 times.
Squeeze your buttock muscles together as if you are holding in flatulence.
Total hip replacement.
At first you will walk with a walker or crutches.
2 lie on your back with your knees bent in a 10 to 15 degree angle.
Early on walking will help you regain movement in your hip.
Your goal is to achieve a bent knee with your heel remaining on the bed.
Hold for five seconds.
Gently point and pull ankle of your surgical leg by pumping foot up and down.
Therapy can reduce swelling decrease pain improve range of motion build strength challenge balance and develop endurance.
To see the full benefit of hip replacement therapy will be a necessary part of the rehabilitation process.
Repeat 10 times 1 set.
Recovery after surgery.