Still limping after hip replacement? Your new hip may be fine—but your gait may still need work.

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Why Your Limp May Continue After Hip Replacement Surgery

Why Am I Still Limping? Gait – Part 2

Why am I still limping after hip replacement surgery? In this episode of The Hip Replacement Podcast, Chris explains six common gait problems that can affect walking after a total hip replacement, including weak hip muscles, short strides, poor balance, leg length discrepancy, altered foot position and the lingering walking habits developed before surgery.

Hip replacement surgery may remove the damaged joint, but it does not automatically correct years of muscle weakness, compensation and poor walking mechanics. Chris shares his personal experience with uneven leg length, reduced balance, numbness, weak stabilizer muscles and a foot that turns slightly outward after surgery.

You’ll also learn why getting rid of a walker, crutches or cane too quickly may reinforce a limp, why walking farther is not always better and how physical therapy, strength exercises, flexibility and gait training may help improve your walking pattern.

The goal is not just to walk more. It is to walk safely, evenly and confidently. A new hip can remove the reason you learned to limp, but it may not automatically remove the limp you learned.

New hips. New you. Let’s go.

Thanks for joining THE HIP REPLACEMENT PODCAST.

-Chris

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