Hello everyone. I am 26 days post op from an anterior mako-robotic TRHR. Although it’s been 15 years of hip problems. This is my fourth surgery on this hip, and I’m trying to come to terms that it won’t be my last as I won’t give up running. More specifically, I won’t give up running long.
I’ve been a runner my whole life. I remember the thrill of running my first mile in gym class at 12 years old. I was a very competitive 400m hurdler in high school. Even though I decided not to run at the collegiate level so I could focus on engineering, running was always with me. Ran marathons in early 2000 before it was cool to be a marathoner.
Ran sporadically before and after the birth of my kids, but once the second was born, I tried to get back to running. A few months into a half marathon training program, I started to feel a pain in my groin. The pain stopped when I stopped running, so of course I ignored it. Until the pain couldn’t be ignored any more. A MRI revealed I had a tear in my labrum. Had the arthroscopic surgery to clean out the tear in December 2007. A few weeks of physical therapy and I was told I was good to run again. About 1.5 years after that surgery, I was on a 10 mile run when I had a familiar pain. This time I stopped running immediately and called my orthopedic surgeon. Another tear. Another surgery. In November 2009, they went in and this time tried to cut bone to reduce the impingement (I had FAI).
Same scenario – I was told I could run again. Although when the pain came a year later, I was learning how to scuba dive. The weight of the tanks on my back crushed my hip. My orthopedic surgeon said he had never seen such a bad case of arthritis happen so quickly. Due to my age (42 at the time), he referred me to a surgeon who specialized in hip resurfacing. … (Click Here to View Full Post and Comments)