How to nurse after total hip replacement

Update Date: 2024-11-03 Source: Network

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My friend had a car accident recently, in which he was seriously injured. The doctor said that he needed to have a total hip arthroplasty. He was very worried about the sequelae after the operation. Today, I'd like to talk about the complications after the total hip arthroplasty.

How to nurse after total hip replacement

First: after artificial hip replacement, through rehabilitation training, patients can basically return to the normal level of activity, that is, all kinds of activities in life can be done. But to achieve this effect, we need to have a certain premise: first, the diseases leading to hip replacement are not some special diseases.

Second, if it is because of common femoral head necrosis, femoral neck fracture and other diseases caused by hip disease, these patients after hip replacement, to ensure that no hip dislocation within six weeks. Once dislocation of the hip occurs, it needs to be reset in time and limited activities. If dislocation occurs repeatedly, it needs to consider the second revision and other issues. Even after rehabilitation training, it will take a longer time to recover to reach the normal level of activity.

Third: within six weeks after surgery, patients can walk with walking apparatus three times a day in the morning, middle and evening, but they only need to walk for about 15-20 minutes each time and then need to sit down and rest; after six weeks after surgery, this time can be extended to about half an hour each time. If patients take a long walk each time, it will increase the pressure of artificial hip joint in a short time. At the same time, it is easy to have edema of the affected limb, and it will also lead to muscle soreness due to long time of activity, which affects the process of postoperative recovery.

matters needing attention

There are a lot of patients with hip joint inflammation after hip replacement surgery. Therefore, after the artificial hip replacement surgery, we must often go to the hospital to review the wound healing, and take active exercise after the surgery, but we must pay attention to the propriety in the exercise.