| Ballet dancers, football players, basketball players, and | | | | their replacement hip and still be a semi-active |
| track stars all have the same concerns when it | | | | individual. |
| comes to having a hip replaced: will I still be able to | | | | There are things to consider though after having a |
| perform? Hip replacement surgery doesn't mean that | | | | hip replaced. Hip replacement rehab is a good place to |
| suddenly life as you know it has changed or stopped. | | | | go over with your physical therapist the realities of |
| Thanks to hip replacement rehab, life with a new hip | | | | your athletic career. The suggestion may be to go |
| can be just as good or even better than before. | | | | from a full-time dancer to a part-time dancer and |
| A person that has an athletic lifestyle as a means of | | | | instructor, or from full-time runner to a coach. No one |
| earning a living can come to a point in life when hip | | | | wants to give up their desired life passion because of |
| pain can virtually wipe out their desired movement. | | | | an injury or severe pain, so educating yourself on |
| When it's impossible to move any more, even to do | | | | how to do what you want to do the right way is the |
| normal things like stand or walk because of hip pain, | | | | best way to maintain your athletic happiness. |
| then it's time to reconsider hip replacement surgery. | | | | While there are several persons who have had a hip |
| It's a known fact that no matter how strong our | | | | replaced and continued their livelihood, there's one |
| bodies are or how well trained, there will come a | | | | person in particular that serves as a famous |
| point in life when we realize it's fragility. Over the | | | | testimony. In 1991, Bo Jackson had to face making |
| past several years, hip replacement has developed | | | | the tough decision of having his hip replaced. It took |
| into a time enduring solution. With the earliest record | | | | Bo Jackson two years to get his body back in |
| of hip replacement surgery being recorded in 1891, | | | | "working" condition, but when he stepped back in the |
| the procedure has had plenty of time to advance. | | | | athletic realm in 1993, it was worth the wait. |
| At first, the replaced hip was a metallic composition, | | | | Fans around the country were amazed at how |
| progressing in some areas to an ivory replacement, | | | | spectacularly he performed and by the time he |
| and finally a combination of metal, a teflon acetabular, | | | | retired in 1995, he had proven a point; with the |
| and an acrylic bone cement is used. About 95% of | | | | proper education on how to rehabilitate a new |
| patients now can have up to 15 years or more with | | | | replacement hip, an athlete can do anything they set |
| their replacement. With the proper care and | | | | their mind to. |
| education, an athletic person will be able to enjoy | | | | |