Loading ...Here in BC Canada they mostly now do the anterior hip replacement surgery which only requires a 4″ vertical incision as day surgery and send you home the same day, but when I had my right hip replacement surgery in September 2015 they still did the posterior 6″ incision which cuts across the muscle and is much more invasive than this newer anterior approach, so required a hospital stay of 2 days. There is lots of info on both procedures on the internet. The new anterior approach makes the 4″ incision in front of the hip and the old Posterior approach makes the 6″ incision from behind the hip on the Glute (butt) muscle.
I too had to have a few classes on what to do post surgery; log roll, sitting on a toilet, going up and down stairs, and other do’s and don’ts. … I opted for a spinal tap with a mild sedation so when the surgery was finished I came awake very quickly. I was supposed to stay in the hospital for two days post surgery but I was up walking the same evening of the surgery, walked the halls for hours with very little discomfort, and the next morning I asked to be released to go home…which after my doctor read the nurses reports, he approved. Naturally I was very careful for the next few days and weeks but the whole thing was a “piece of cake”. My incision healed quickly and I have had no problem with that hip….and it’s been 9 years now.
Anyway, just a FYI of my experience, which again was Silverngold