Stand comfortably and erect with your weight evenly balanced on your walker or crutches.
Exercises for hip surgery patients.
Therapy can reduce swelling decrease pain improve range of motion build strength challenge balance and develop endurance.
Your goal is to achieve a bent knee with your heel remaining on the bed.
Don t let your knee roll inward or outward.
At first you will walk with a walker or crutches.
Perform three sets of 10 three times a day.
Hold for five seconds.
Gently point and pull ankle of your surgical leg by pumping foot up and down.
Call your surgeon if.
Lying down on the bed slide the heel of one foot up toward your buttocks.
Repeat 10 more times.
Rest and elevate lie down with your legs at the level of your heart for at least 20 minutes.
To see the full benefit of hip replacement therapy will be a necessary part of the rehabilitation process.
You can do this exercise 3 or 4 times a day.
Your surgeon or therapist will tell you how much weight to put on your leg.
Squeeze your buttock muscles together as if you are holding in flatulence.
Early on walking will help you regain movement in your hip.
You may place a pillow lengthwise beneath your surgical leg if you have an increase in swelling.
2 lie on your back with your knees bent in a 10 to 15 degree angle.
Repeat 10 times 1 set.
Recovery after surgery.
Total hip replacement.