Be careful not to sit around after physio

Had an appointment with my physio today who worked on my back and upper gluteals while we chewed the fat about footy and the Adam Goodes racism issue. I enjoy my chats with Matt.

I was sitting and driving in the car for about an hour after the appointment and started to feel very sore with that old familiar burning pain in my right hip and groin. I did mention to Matt that I was feeling soreness in the hip/groin while he was working on my back but I didn't expect it to flare up so much.

Posture is everything but it can be difficult when you need to keep your hip angle greater than 90 degrees. I might get the ice onto it.

On an entirely different topic, I'm not a religious man and probably refer to myself as an agnostic atheist with a Catholic death bed Golden ticket. But as a father and a husband this got to me. Thanks for the heads up, Matt. I'm not sure if I look forward to continuing to read this or not.

http://howthelightgetsin.net/2011/11/06/in-defense-of-daddy/

First physiotherapy appointment - 11 days post-op

Visited my old mate, Matt Clark, who is my physio in Ballarat. There was no treatment but we went through some exercises I can do and a more gentle alternative to the quadratus muscle exercise. I’ll be seeing him every Tuesday for the hips.

Amazing keyholes

As I am an hour away from the surgeon’s rooms I had organised to have my sutures removed by my GP as required 10 days post-op. The dressing on the right hip was starting to come away after showersing so I thought I should change it. I gently pulled it away and lo and behold there were no sutures or stitches! The surgeon has glued it or stuck it together with tape. Either way the wounds are clean and neat.

The morning after

The surgeon popped in this morning and I was amazed when he said there was a lot more damage to repair in the right hip. I was certainly sorer last night after this bout of surgery but I put it down to different pain medication considering I had a bad reaction to the Tramadol last week.

Turns out there was labrum damage which was debrided and a CAM lesion that required removal but there was also considerable cartilage damage that was removed. The surgeon then performed micro fracturing on the site to promote growth of a bone “scab” and causes new cartilage to develop.

Very strange as the left hip has always given me the most trouble and pain.

Here’s my right hip with and without the waterproof dressing. Arthroscopies are an amazing technology.

The lovely Irish physio came in and suggested I back right off on the isometric exercises until I see my local physio. I mentioned I had been sore from doing them on my left side and she gave me a simpler quadratus muscle exercise that I could do.

Here I go again!!

Well. Here I go again. The oldies have driven me down to St Vincent’s Hospital this morning and I’ve been wondering if I am wasting my time. The left hip was the one that gave me the most grief when I run and play sport, and as it turned out the damage wasn’t a great as the MRI suggested once the surgeon got in there last week.

While I still had labrum debridement and a femoral osteectomy of the CAM lesion on my femoral head/neck, the surgeon didn’t seem to think it was too bad. If that is the case, I am quite fearful that he’ll get into my right one and find there is nothing wrong with the bloody thing.

On the other hand, I recommend St Vincent's & Mercy Private Hospital where you’ll have your hip shaved and painted and you’ll get an injection in the guts from gorgeous young Irish and Scottish nurses and physios.

Plus you get these fetching underpants!

Now, back to my newspaper.