The worst part about recovering from arthroscopic hip surgery hasn’t been the pain or soreness, or even the bad anesthesia headaches that lingered for several days. It’s been the limited mobility. And for an active person like myself – who doesn’t really stop until hitting the pillow late at night…
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Femoroacetabular impingement (F.A.I.), or hip impingement syndrome.
Surgery Update
The four words you always want to hear, and I did hear, after surgery: “Everything went very well.” Recuperating, though, hasn’t gone nearly as well – bad headaches from the spinal anesthesia, nausea, stomach pains and general lethargy. Which was why I hadn’t written anything since my arthroscopic hip surgery four days…
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In Love (With Running)
Two days to go before my hip arthroscopy surgery and nervous jitters are getting the best of me. So I did the only thing that I knew would calm me down: I went for a run. It was a slow and easy three-mile run — more like a jog, really…
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Surgery Countdown
Today was my preoperative examination and check-in before my hip arthroscopy. The purpose of any pre-op exam is to evaluate a patient’s readiness for anesthesia and surgery through a battery of tests, and mine was no exception. The first stop: the office of the internist, which required me to fill out…
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Good As New?
What are the chances of returning to the same level of competition in your sport after arthroscopic hip surgery? Pretty good, it seems. Seventy-eight percent of surgery patients get back in the game after a about nine months, on average, and 91 percent of them are able to compete at…
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Surgery Countdown
Two weeks to go before arthroscopic hip surgery to repair a torn labrum — the result of femoroacetabular impingement (F.A.I.), or hip impingement syndrome. That’s when the femoral head of the thigh bone rubs against the acetabulum, or cuplike socket of the hip joint. This rubbing can damage the soft elastic…
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Surgery Countdown
As of today, I have exactly one month to go before arthroscopic surgery to repair the torn labrum on my left hip. And am I ready already! Not only am I dealing with the constant pain associated with the tear — it’s generally dull, though intensifies when sitting too long…
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Joined at the Hip
What could I possibly have in common with Alex Rodriguez, Tara Lipinski and Mario Lemieux? Certainly not their athletic prowess or major league bucks. But you might say that we’re all joined at the hip. Actually, we’ve all been sidelined with hip labral tears. My recent diagnosis: femoroacetabular impingement (F.A.I.),…
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