Hip replacement and leg discrepancy

hipityhop
hipityhop Member Posts: 18
edited 20. Apr 2025, 08:13 in Living with arthritis

Hello , I Hope you are all enjoying this lovely start to Spring 🌷

This is just a little update.!!

It’s now a month after my left hip replacement and managing on one crutch most of the time. No pain anymore whilst sitting but still swelling in my foot and around knee and thigh and still a tightness and a protrusion around the incision site. Seeing my surgeon tomorrow. My main concern is my pelvis is still tilted up on operated side causing my leg to be one inch (2cm) shorter than my non operated leg. I tried a couple of steps without the crutch and I have a bad limp worst that before the op. I am hoping that my pelvis will drop and the muscles will relax? Will be interesting to hear what the surgeon says !!

Onwards and upwards 🌞

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  • noddingtonpete
    noddingtonpete Moderator Posts: 1,389

    Hi @hipityhop I hope that the surgeon can put your mind at ease.

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  • Rona123
    Rona123 Member Posts: 6

    I had my right hip replaced 7.5 months ago. My operated leg is 1 cm longer (true difference) but 2.5 cm longer (apparent) than the other. I was hoping it would improve with time but it hasn’t. I need to use heel lifts in my left shoe. Ok but can’t get any higher than 1.2 cm without heel pain or knee pain.

    Hopefully yours will resolve 🤞in time.

  • hipityhop
    hipityhop Member Posts: 18
    edited 18. Apr 2025, 21:53

    Thank you and I hope that yours improves Naldo👍 I think it is called a Trendelenburg gait!!

  • Janlyn
    Janlyn Member Posts: 651

    @hipityhop - I had Trendelenburg gait and I have been seeing a chiropractor I was seeing pre-op and he sorted it out with exercise and it is so, so much better. I really feel so much stronger now and no pain or stiffness. You can find the exercises by googling and I also found I needed to just very simply bend my leg backwards whilst standing to almost kick my bottom and that really released my stiffness. I just used to do a few exercises whilst waiting for the kettle to boil and sorted it out quickly, but hoping you get some answers from your surgeon.

    Take care.

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