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