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Hip replacement revision recovery time.
This procedure is called revision total hip replacement.
During your hip revision recovery time you will need to use a walker or crutches to.
You will have to practice some care after undergoing hip replacement or revision surgery.
The bone graft may be an autograft which means that the bone is taken from another site in the patient s own.
Hip revision surgery is performed to repair an artificial hip joint prosthesis that has been damaged over time due to an infection or due to normal wear and tear of the prosthetic hip.
Here are some precautions to shorten hip revision recovery time.
When this occurs your doctor may recommend that you have a second operation to remove some or all of the parts of the original prosthesis and replace them with new ones.
Take care when resting.
The number of hip revisions performed by orthopedic surgeons is growing quickly at an estimated rate of 8 to 10 each year.
Tips and precautions to shorten hip recovery time.
Revision hip replacements may also be performed to manage complications such as infection of a hip replacement hip replacement dislocation or fractures of the bone around the hip replacement.
Hip replacement recovery time.
Here are some precautions to reduce hip modification recovery time.
Your doctor will take x rays of your affected leg to confirm that your hip is healing just fine.
Tips and precautions to shorten hip recovery time.
You will have to practice some care after undergoing hip replacement or modification surgery.
Revision surgery helps to correct the problem so the hip can function normally again.