I just skied for the first time in 10 1/2 months! I only lasted just under 2 hours, but it was SOOOO MUCH FUN!
Can't wait to go again on Wednesday!
I just skied for the first time in 10 1/2 months! I only lasted just under 2 hours, but it was SOOOO MUCH FUN!
Can't wait to go again on Wednesday!
I haven't skied in 2 weeks, and I can't imagine breaking for that long. Congrats on a full recovery & return to the slopes. Stay intact.
Congrats wandering! Makes my ACLR recovery look like a cake-walk!
i had my first fai hip surgery done on monday. i had both cam and pincer lesions burred off, 3 loose bone fragments that had busted off of the acetabular rim (socket) and were floating around in there removed, a giant dysplastic cyst removed from the femoral head, and the labrum was anchored back to where it was pulled off.
dr bryan kelly is the man!
i did pt the next morning and did some more today. the narcotics are bothering me but seem to help with the pain.
i have an ice machine, a cpm machine, and exercises to do daily. it's not a fun recovery so far but the PT thinks i will paddle whitewater again, once i get recovered and get the other hip done.
my experience at the hospital for special surgery was very good. they are the highest level of skill and attention in every aspect when it comes to musculoskeletal diseases and injuries.
4 weeks out today and i am weaning off crutches, can almost put full weight on my leg.
i am ramping up the pt and am hoping for the best while not overdoing it.
but i'm sore enough now to think there's no way i am doing the other hip earlier than 6 months after the first like some people are offered by surgeons (some say they will do it 8 weeks out, no thanks).
whoa..
looks like this is the place I should be.
When all of you talk about the pain you've had with your hip was it sharp like electrical shock of a nerve that would come and go? or a dull ache deep in your joints?
I've had an MRI and will be talking to an ortho to review it next week. I signed the report out to myself and the exact wording is
"FINDINGS
The bone marrow has a normal signal throughout. There is no evidence for a joint effusion. The ligamentous and tendinous structures appear intact. There is some abnormal signal associated with the superior lip of the glenoid labrum consistent with a small focal tear. A soft tissue mass is not evident."
Anyone want to take a stab at how convinced this guy is?..and what does it mean that a soft tissue mass is not evident?
and I had five minor shock to the nerve pains while in there laying perfectly still..I'm assuming they can see that?
Exploring all possibilities.
Thanks everyone here for the updates and especially to wandering for the thread
Snowful I was wondering whatever happened to you. Any update?
ps..I'm interested in any and all updates
Speaking from experience...Quote:
Originally Posted by EarlyWood
I have noticed a dull ache deep in my hip for years and always thought it was just sore/tight muscles. Although I occasionally do feel sharp pain like a charlie horse when I squat deeply or ride back seat on a snowmobile.
My hip would sometimes ache, it sometimes felt like someone was trying to chop my leg off with a dull knife, that's one problem with diagnosis, it was never the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by EarlyWood
As far as the tear to the labrum, it's really hard to tell if it's torn. For mine, the radiologist saw the tear, two surgeons didn't, and finally Dr. White agreed that there probably was a tear. It turned out mine had detached, rather than torn. That being said, my hip felt better about 1 week after surgery than it had felt in years...
For an update, I skied for a lot of March, even getting on some of the extremes at CB. I'm having all six screws from my osteotomy removed on Tuesday of next week, which is really soon since I just saw the surgeon who's doing it for the first time on Wednesday. At least a couple are bothering me and Dr. White recommended that as long as I'm having surgery I should have them all out and be done. It's going to mean opening up almost my entire beautiful 6 inch scar, so they better do a good job sewing me back up. Of course, an almost 6-inch incision means general anesthesia and the pain of not being able to shower for a week and all that other crap that comes with surgery.
I'm not sure I'm entirely mentally prepared for my 3rd surgery in 10 months, but it's definitely worth it to do it now. My other option would have been the end of September, and Squirrelmurphy and I are getting married Labor Day weekend, so it's better to do it now. It would also suck to be fully back to my real life and then have to take a 6 week hiatus from doing anything active again.
earlywood, the glenoid labrum is in your shoulder, so i wonder what the radiologist is smoking, and if it's cheaper than what i pay.
but, anterior and superior labral tears is common in hip fai. if there is a tear there, and swelling and damage, the signal will be abnormal. but sometimes the signal is abnormal for minor tweaks that wouldn't need anything done to it.
more important than those guys checking the soft tissue is to look at the acetabular rim (socket) and head/neck junction. that can be seen on supine, frog-legged xray and for any fai-experienced doc, it would be plain as day.
symptoms are vague and diffuse but some signs are not being able to (in attempt to find very common examples for tgr types):
kick a rainbow kick in hackey sack
squat without your knees pointing out.
sit in lotus position/indian style
pain in groin/outside of hip/si joint/low back... likes to move around. exercise aggrovates big time.
a dull ache that can sometimes be sharp
clicking or clunking in hip
catching of hip esp while walking downhill
basically, pain on internal and external rotation.
just as important as the labral tear is the boney impingement(s) that can cause the tear in the first place.
the hip fai is often congenital and over time leads to muscle imbalances and spasms along with strain patterns. these spasms can be causative of those zings of pain that come and go.
wandering, best of luck with that!
and there-in lies my loopholeQuote:
Originally Posted by mysteryzombie
I did some research on this and got a little excited that maybe they had me confused with another patient (or were incompetent) ... turns out the hip really does have a glenoid labrum but it's old school vocabulary.
I researched the soft tissue mass issue and I'm pretty sure they're talking about a tumor or something cancerous not being evident
thanks for listing those symptoms.. based on those, I'm still not convinced I'm a FAI guy..not that there's anything wrong with that.. heh
then again, I would like to pin this down to something.
thanks for everything here
3 months out from major fai surgery with labral repair.
i'm walking pretty much normally and each day i scramble along the uneven river bank.
i'm pretty pysched i got it done as of thus far.
the other hip is getting scoped in september.
If you have hip fai, nothing will fix it besides surgery. Sure, you can exercise to get stronger but your body is then only going to build stronger compensatory patterns, which may cause you to fuck up your back, knee, etc..
I am recovering from my 2nd fai scope now and hope to rock again this summer.
Has anyone had a "Lateral" hip scope? My ortho. doc just told me about this guy DR. Sampson who performs a less invasive repair to Labral tears with a much shorter recovery time. http://www.hiparthroscopy.net/index.php
Anyone have any insight?
^^ My labral tear (and bone spur on my femur) was repaired arthroscopically by Dr. Coleman at HSS in NYC. Can't speak highly enough of the guy. I have two small incisions in the TFL region, and it was done as an outpatient treatment. No guarantees that it's the same method (pretty sure though). I was very happy with the results. Recovery was still a bit rocky for me, though. The doc was a bit surprised at how long it took me to recover, so I may have just been a bad patient. He couldn't fit me in the week I originally wanted, so I had it done on a Friday and still went to class on Monday. Managed to avoid missing classes, but I'm sure that prolonged my recovery time. I think he usually has being off crutches in 2 weeks, but I used them for about a month. A round of anti-inflammatories about 1 month in made life much better, and it was pretty exponential from that point on.
I was curious to read that the average labral tear takes 2 years to diagnose - thanks WNL for posting that. It took me 4 years before anyone believed it wasn't just my continuation of sports that kept me from heeling. But that statistic makes me feel slightly better about it.
Long term updates from anyone with the surgery?
mysteryzombie - Especially interested in hearing why you chose Kelly over Philippon.
Mysteryzombie how you now doing with both hips?