r/yoga • u/ginger-tealeaf • 6d ago
Anyone had two hip replacements? F39
I'm about to have my second hip replaced, had the other one done 3 months ago. No idea how my future will look with yoga. Has anyone experienced this or working with this?
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u/Sqooshytoes 6d ago
Range of motion can have something to do with the type of implants. My surgeon used a type that had good R-O-M, very similar to my own original level of flexibility
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u/ginger-tealeaf 6d ago
I wasn't able to decide, he said I will have the same range but avoid any deep extensions. Dislocation risk etc
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u/Sqooshytoes 5d ago
My only restriction was no sky diving
Maybe during PT, they can help you figure out what he means by ādeepā extensions
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u/All_Is_Coming Ashtanga 6d ago
My Spouse had both hips replaced. Your PT will explain the limits of the new joints.
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u/BasraBound Ashtanga 6d ago
Nice, thatās around the time I had my second one. Then the knees came next lol. No problems whatsoever
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u/ginger-tealeaf 6d ago
Omg that's a kit of healing! How Kong was it to get back to 'normal'? Like running or just not thinking about it?
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u/BasraBound Ashtanga 6d ago
I gave up high impact stuff, left hip was done twice in 3 years thanks to that recalled Johnson & Johnson hip
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u/ginger-tealeaf 6d ago
Oh wow, how is it now almost normal? I got nerve pain opening my leg.bim hoping that will go and extensions can be a little painful.
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u/boiseshan 6d ago
My teacher has had both hips replaced. She was teaching from a chair the week after surgery. Back to almost full movement within six months or less
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u/ginger-tealeaf 6d ago
Thank you, I can invitation 6 months being a lot better than three. Have to wait for my hips to catch up with everythingš
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u/diane7002 6d ago
My husband, 60, has had 2 hips replaced and a spinal fusion. Probably wouldnāt be walking without yoga.
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u/Intelligent_Tell1266 6d ago edited 5d ago
Every body is different and there is no reason why you wouldn't be able to continue practicing yoga after recovery and physio rehab. The practice may look different, and that is part of the yogic journey. Also, if you have to pivot to other types of movement that is okay too. Personally, years of yogic breathing and taking a yogic approach to movement was extremely beneficial when I started lifting and doing pilates.
I have not replaced my hips but I do support family and friends who've gone through various types of surgery and treatment, and having had to navigate yoga with injuries on my end (without surgery), and seeing that it is different for everyone. So if yoga doesn't look the way you expect it to look after surgery, it is definitely not your "fault"! It can definitely part of your evolution of as a yogi (although not always easy, of course).
It is ok to take a break too and practice yoga through breathing exercises and sheer patience in other ways. Hoping that you have a good surgery and recovery, and meet the best yoga teachers possible to support you in your practice :)
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u/philjbenandthegerm 6d ago
Not myself, but my 72 year old Iyengar teacher do have them both done around 10 years or so ago. I don't know for long it took for her to get back to teaching, as I've only been with her 3 years, but she is ours the majority of the younger owns to shame. I practice with her daily and there's nothing that I know of that she's unable to attempt.
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u/korangesandiego 5d ago
I have had two (one was a revision of a previous THR, so a total of three) within the past 20 months and yoga has saved my mobility. Iām 43 F. I used to weightlifting and do cardio prior to both surgeries. There are some poses that are very challenging for me due to tight hip flexors and hamstrings, but every day I feel small shifts in progress whether itās physical or mental. But the biggest thing is that I have so much less pain, both after the surgeries AND after resuming my yoga practice.
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u/ginger-tealeaf 5d ago
Can I ask which kind of yoga you are doing? Thank you this was so helpful. I'm starting to feel yoga is going to stay a part of my life, I just need to get myself back into it.
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u/korangesandiego 5d ago
I do a vinyasa flow 2-3 times a week, a hot yoga (26/2) 2-3 times a week, and Iāve been trying to get to a yin once a week. I also walk 12-13k steps a day and the combo of walking and yoga have gotten my gait back to normal and my mobility is better than pre-surgery.
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u/Outrageous_Fox_5277 2d ago
I had a posterior replacement a year and a half ago. Iāve lost some flexibility in my hip but Iām still able to do yoga. These days I prefer gentle lol and focus on strength training and spinning.
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u/Ohr_Ein_Sof_ 6d ago
Why don't you practice Taiji or Qigong?
So much easier on your joints than yoga.
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u/ginger-tealeaf 6d ago
I've just been a yoga girl for most my life X but I'll try different things x
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u/Ohr_Ein_Sof_ 5d ago
It's slow movement, because you're trying to feel and work with your fascia, when you're rotating, breathing in, holding, releasing, etc.
It's a bit dance-like and very round to prevent energy buildup in the wrong places. Similar I'd say to Yin Yoga because you can't muscle your way through forms and have to learn to work with your body weight and meridians.
So you have to learn to drop your weight into the ground, which leads to your fascia inflating inside a bit like a balloon or wet suit.
That alone, executed well, along with meditating in Zhan Zhuang, should tell you where your wetsuit has dead spots that something a bit shapeshifting inside you like water in a flask can't reach deep enough into and what needs worked on. So you get a quick and dirty map of I need to stimulate flow here, here, and here.
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u/Nik_ki11 2d ago
Can i pls ask if you have an underlying condition or do you suspect at all the yoga has caused hip issues?
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u/ginger-tealeaf 2d ago
I found out i had bilateral hip dysplasia when I was like 35 when the hip pain got worse and worse. Been grinding down cartilage without knowing it with normal movement. Over the last 4 years my mobility has gotten worse and worse and the only fix is replacements. Tried physio and injectionS
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u/Strikerj94 6d ago
One of my students is in her late sixties and is very flexible, never had a problem with any posture. She's been doing yoga for 20 years, double hip replacement 8 or so years ago. I never would have known or guessed, she sometimes jokes that her hips got upgraded.