Last year I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day on crutches, recovering from my second arthroscopic hip surgery in one year; this time on my right side. This year I ran five miles and took a kick-ass spin class. What a difference a year makes, huh? Wishing everyone a happy,…
Yearly Archives: 2012
Another Hip Scope for A-Rod
It’s a double-header for Alex Rodriguez. The New York Yankees announced today that its star third baseman will have to undergo yet another arthroscopic hip surgery – this one on his left side – to repair a torn labrum and bone impingement and to remove a cyst. (His right hip…
Posted in Hip Labral Tears
Thankful
There are many reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving weekend. For starters, my family and I survived Hurricane Sandy (yes, we live in hard-hit New Jersey) relatively unscathed. Even though I lost power for 10 days and my commute to New York was for awhile a two-hour odyssey each way,…
No Pomp, Better Circumstances
“You’ve graduated! See you in a year, maybe, so we can get some more data on you.” Those were the final words from my hip surgeon at the end of my regular checkup this past week. As I was leaving his office, I was handed – not a diploma or…
Posted in Hip Labral Tears, My Story
Exercise Slider
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s another new blog feature: “Click for Quick Exercise,” located on the bottom right of the Catching a Third Wind homepage (under Archives). When you click on this button – well, not the one you see here in this post – out slides an exercise…
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Knowing When to Stop
The latest post on HSS on the Move, the Hospital for Special Surgery blog, offers some tips from its Center for Hip Preservation on managing hip pain. It suggests, among other things, avoiding “repetitive hip flexion,” or moving your hip or leg toward your chest, along with deep squats and…
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Positive News for Injured Pros
Research presented last month at the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine in Baltimore provides more evidence that there’s (an active) life after hip surgery. And that includes the more complicated procedures. The study, by Dr. Marc Philippon, a pioneer in arthroscopic hip surgery who trained…
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One Year Later
I couldn’t let this day pass without acknowledging that exactly one year ago I had my first arthroscopic hip surgery, on my left side. (The right side was scoped five months later, in December.) And so began one of the longest years of my life. My very skilled surgeon at…
Posted in Hip Labral Tears, My Story, Physical Therapy
A Major Milestone (And Update)
Yes, I am running again. And I am thrilled to report that I actually covered three miles this morning – my longest run in a year, in fact, almost to the day. (Back then it was clearly a therapeutic endeavor: to calm my jitters two days before the first of two…
Posted in Hip Labral Tears, My Story, Physical Therapy, Running