Any experiences with hip labrum surgery

Nephew had the surgery.  D1 kicker.  Had in Jauary and was back kicking in August.  Tough recovery and rehab but he came out of it well but worked his tail off. He had a great season and is getting NFL looks post surgery.

Have you looked into the possibility of PRP & stemcell injections? Univ of Miami is conducting studies on this type therapy instead of surgery. Dr James Andrews is doing similar procedure for shoulders. I don't know much about it, but it may be worth asking your sons orthoepedic.

 

Let me know what questions you have. Unfortunately, I have a lot of experience with it. I have two athletes who are coming off of recent hip arthroscopies and a couple more who have had the procedure done in the past. I successfully rehabbed one girl from before surgery all the way to return to cheerleading and dance in 4 months. If you'd prefer to shoot me a private message, go ahead... 

My son had it done at end of sophmore season. I had it done two years ago.

Both were successful, have any questions feel free to ask??

My son had PRP directly into his hip after his surgery.

I will post back on Thursday when I have info to share.  Surgery is Wednesday for keewartson.

Good Luck!

Update:  today is two weeks post surgery.

 

MRI in October showed hip labral tear.  He played through the pain all season, and started all but one game.  

 

Surgeon said hip was pretty messy when he got in there.  Cleaned up the fraying and impingement and reattached labrum. Two incisions.  Operation took about 1 1/2 hours. Complications after surgery was severe nausea/vomiting  (not sure if this was due to anesthesia or pain narcotics).  

 

He started PT 2 days after surgery 3x week.  He was using one crutch after 6 days and driving after 10 days.  He has started pool therapy.  His PT is amazed at how well he has responded.  The PT protocol is 13 weeks.

 

He had a MRI on the other hip this week.  Usually these things are bilateral.  If warranted (and approved by insurance) he wants to have the other hip "done" asap so not to loose another summer playing ball.

 

 Goal is to be back on the field in February.

When patients need both hips scoped like this, the surgeon tends to wait 4-6 weeks after the first one to do the second one. That allows them to build enough strength to be able to support the second surgery. 

Not hip labrum, but I had shoulder labrum repair in 2010. I have a very solid shoulder post-surgery. I had rotator cuff (supraspinatus full thickness tear) repair on the same shoulder in 2007. I tore the labrum horsing around in the pool with my son. I will say the labrum surgery hurt more than either of the two rotator cuff (had the L shoulder done in 2010) repairs. However, the labrum was a much quicker recovery. I was back to normal activities within a month.  

 

I had PRP done on a ERCB partial tear. It was a waste. I had the tendon repaired a few months later and the OS did PRP at that time also.

Second hip scoped this week, 4 weeks exactly after 1st hip.