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How HIP is TOO HIP?
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I’ve been through a lot of security check points in the past 5 bionic years of airport travel, I’ve been prodded in New York, wanded in Washington DC, intimately viewed in Hawaii, and touched in San Francisco.
BUT…I have never been wanded, prodden THEN taken to a private room, and asked to show my hip replacement scars before…that was a first (in London, by the way).
So, down went my pants to present my surgery souvenirs to polite but perfect strangers.
I know the world is changing, with heightened security and all that it entails – however how much is too much?
I ask YOU!
Healing Gardens for Hip Replacement Recovery
Every condition or disease has its challenges, and understanding these challenges is necessary to the planning process. Designing a space to facilitate recovery from a hip replacement would require a very different approach than designing a space for child with ASD, or a parent with Alzheimer’s disease.
There is much to learn from the Client’s clinical team: physician, care providers, specialists, etc., each of whom has very specific and personal knowledge about the individual and the level of their disability. In addition, many conditions and diseases have societies and support groups associated with them, so there is often a wealth of information available t
Boomers: It’s not your Grandma’s hip replacement surgery
“Hip replacements were once reserved for the elderly, so younger adults with hips damaged by arthritis or past injury were told to wait to undergo replacement surgery until they were very old,” he says. “Baby boomers today, however, have higher expectations, and don’t want to let a damaged hip slow them down. They want to get back on the ski slopes, back on the jogging track and back to an active life.”
via Boomers: It’s not your Grandma’s hip replacement surgery.
Your Hipster Girl….
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Jodi is a DOUBLE HIPster with a “Zimmer” in her left hip and ceramic in her right. Bionic woman of the 21st century, Jodi has used both THR approaches – the left hip was the posterior cutting through the muscle (ouch) and in the right hip almost three years later, she used the anterior approach, which is a weaving through the muscles and ligaments.
Jodi is also the creator and founder of http://www.SingleParentSource.com and www.makinglemonade.com – and author of a Guidebook for Single Parents after divorce (Making Lemonade – the book).
She has been spotlighted for her work with single parents in many on and offline publications; all inspired by being the single mother of SAM, who is now 21 <insert GULP here>
In her new HIPster status, Jodi wants to help people through this process (and initiation) because it was SO powerful for her! She is there for YOU to take you through all the stages of having your hip replaced….from research, speaking to Doctors, planning the surgery, going through the pre-op and post op process, preparing your home and post-surgery care-taking, and planning your hipster party to say good-bye to your original hip and hello to your bionic self!
This is a journey, and there is loss to grieve – but there is also an initiation and celebration into a new, more bionic lifestyle. Traveling through airports will never be the same again either!!!!
And, there is no need to go through this alone, when you can have an advocate! 🙂
Hip Replacement – The Ultimate Remedy for Arthritic Inmates
When a human being starts growing, his body builds up a propensity to come up with diverse heath complications. These health problems gradually weaken the functions of the body parts. One such harmful disease is arthritis which is considered to one of the painful health complications arising in the human body. Arthritis results in pain in the joints and the aftereffects usher on the hip and knee joints. As a result, people find difficult to move their hips flexibly since they experience a kind of stiffness in the joints. To tackle with such health complications, the hip replacement surgery can be a good option. The two types of surgeries that arthritis patients usually opt for are posterior hip replacement and anterior hip replacement.
via Hip Replacement – The Ultimate Remedy for Arthritic Inmates – Health.
Anterior Approach Hip Replacement Surgery | Minimally Invasive Anterior Hip Replacement
A recent trend in hip replacement surgery has been to perform the surgical procedure through smaller, less-invasive approaches. The idea of this trend is to perform the same procedure with less disruption to the surrounding muscles and soft-tissues. By performing surgery through smaller incisions, with less soft-tissue dissection, it is hoped that patients will have less pain and a faster recovery.
via Anterior Approach Hip Replacement Surgery | Minimally Invasive Anterior Hip Replacement.
Baby boomers fueling boom in knee, hip surgeries – USATODAY.com
“I tell patients, 20% of the outcome is the technical stuff I do in the surgery, and 80% is them,” said Hillock, the Las Vegas surgeon. “I can do a perfect surgery, but if they don’t do the rehab they’re not going to have a good outcome.”
Baby boomers fueling boom in knee, hip surgeries – USATODAY.com.
HEALTH: The Thigh Bone’s Connected to the Hip Bone …
According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the most common reason for joint replacement is pain and a decreased quality of life … often caused by osteoarthritis, which occurs when cartilage in your joints wears down over time.
Recent advances in surgical techniques, such as computer-assisted and minimally-invasive procedures, have allowed patients to recover quickly and experience reduced levels of pain. This may account for the increase in the number of joint replacements — the demand for total hip replacements has increased by an astounding 60 percent and for total knee replacements by 70 percent in a 10-year period. Doctors performed 543,000 total knee replacements and 230,000 total hip replacements in 2007 (CDC).
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