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