Top 4 Exercises To Delay And Possibly Avoid A Hip Replacement Surgery

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I hear you thinking you might need to  get a hip replacement at some point in   the future has your doctor told you that  your hip osteoarthritis is getting worse,   and that a hip replacement surgery is in the  cards for you, in the next year, maybe the   next few years? What did you know that if you can  get the mobility and the strength up in your hip?  You can greatly improve the chances that you can  avoid a hip replacement, or at the very least,   delay getting a hip replacement, which  is very important, because it buys you   time to get stronger so that if you have to  have a hip replacement, some people just do,   you're going to be in a better position to  recover quicker after they have replacements.  Now there's a whole process for getting stronger  and improving your hip mobility. And here in my   clinic, we do see patients that have hip  osteoarthritis, and then they get better   by doing the right exercises and strengthening  over time, so they can improve their situation   tremendously. Now I'm going to show you the first  four exercises that we'd start people out on when   they're coming into our clinic. And they're more  moderate to severe in their hip osteoarthritis.  And they've usually been told at this point  that you're going to need a hip replacement   soon, and they're working to improve  their situation. And hopefully avoid   a hip replacement altogether. So the first  exercise is you have got to become obsessed,   and I mean obsessed with hip fidgeting. So sit  down somewhere comfortable, you might already be   sitting. And all this is it's the easiest exercise  in the world, is you're just going to wiggle   your thighs, move your knees in and out. Just like so this is fidgeting, you know, it looks   like I'm just doing a nervous tic like some people  just do this naturally anyway. But what this does   for your hip joints, if you think about the ball  and socket joint of the hip, it's putting a little   wiggle through it. And if you just do that nice  and easy in a way that doesn't hurt, it should   be comfortable, it should be painless, shouldn't  bother you to do this, it shouldn't feel worse   over time either, then this is great for you. Because what you're doing inside the ball and   socket joint of the hip is you're moving around  the fluid, the joint fluid is called synovial   fluid, so that you can get it to all the different  surfaces within the hip joints, and improve the   lubrication and nutrition of the cartilage  inside your hip joint, you may have been told   that you have bone on bone hip arthritis, this is  probably just some spots that are bone on bone.  Maybe you have several of it's more severe.  But if you can do this here along with the   next few exercises that I'm going to show you  and your situation is improving week by week,   you know after a few days of doing this, you  should notice a little bit of an improvement,   then you got a chance you have a chance  of delaying at the very least and setting   yourself up for a quicker rehabilitation after and  at the best situation than you would potentially   avoid a hip replacement surgery altogether. So the best way to do this is to do this in   five minutes spurts. Literally  set a timer on your clock and   your watch kitchen timer on your smartphone,  whatever you'd like to use to time yourself,   just keep an eye on the clock. And go for five  minutes like this just nice, easy wiggles you   can do the side that's affected more. So if that  works better for you generally set asides easier   than going up and down. But you can go up and  down. And just to show you what I'm doing here.  Then to give you a better angle on what I'm doing  here, my legs, I'm just moving my legs in and out,   my feet are planted on the ground. If your feet  were gangly, you could still do this. And it's   not tiring at all to go for a few minutes.  Now if for some reason this hurts your hip,   like it's hurting you right here, then you can do  the motion a little bit less so instead of going   all the way out like this, just do smaller wiggles  like that. And you can also do it for less time.  Let's say it starts to hurt you after you do this  for three minutes, you notice and just go one or   two minutes, stop and rest at that point. And  then come back and do it one or two minutes and   see what your tolerance is like over time. And  then going up and down, you would use your foot   to pump your foot up and down just like this. And  that's even it's a little less muscle using your   hip. So this might be more tolerable for you. You just have to see what your hip likes and   doesn't like in order to get the most benefit out  of this. Now that hip fidgeting movement that I   just showed you is very powerful. You have got  to become obsessed with that I would put you on   a schedule if I was your therapists are seeing  you in person of doing that hourly, maybe even   every 30 minutes while you're awake of course. And honestly most people that I sent home with   that exercise that that little movement, they tell  me that they do it more than hourly because it's   such an easy thing to do. You could do it in  the car as long as you're not driving. You can   you know if you're waiting on an appointment, if  you're sitting at home, if you're having a meal   if you're watching television, if you're watching  YouTube, your watch if you're on social media at   home on your phone, this is super easy to do. So there's no excuse why you can't do this.   That'll loan should improve your  hip arthritis, at least a good 10,   maybe 20%. If you're doing it enough, Exercise  number two is called bent knee fallouts,   you're going to have to lay down for this one. And  this one allows your hip to move through a greater   range of motion very comfortably and safely. So lie down just on your back with your knees   bent, like so, get nice and comfortable. And  with your knees bent, you're falling outwards,   that's why it's called a bent, knee fall  out. So you're just going to let your knee   slowly fall out like this to the amount  of motion that's comfortable for you.  Because if you get, let's say, 70 80% of your full  motion, then it starts to hurt in your hip, your,   your arthritic hip starts to pinch or bother you,  then don't go that far in the future, you're just   going to go to the motion that you can, without  any discomfort. And generally, I'll tell people   to do both sides, but alternate. So you'd move one  leg out than in than the other leg out then in.   And you would do this for two minutes at a time. So you're looking at 120 seconds, generally   people will do about 60 reps. If you'd like  rather count reps, then look at the time,   whatever works for you, you can just go for two  minutes and count the reps the first time you do   it and get an idea for how many you'll do. I  like alternating rather than going out in in   together just a bit more because it forces you to  use your muscles to control better, because you're   having to think about moving one leg at a time and  not letting your whole body roll over like this.  You don't want to do that, because now becomes  more of a back movement than a hip movement,   you need to try to isolate the hip movement a bit  more. And what you'll find usually as you keep   going in this exercise is that the motion that  was painful starts to decrease. In other words,   if you went 70% out, you felt hip pain,  the first few reps you did this, the third,   fourth time in the day that you do this, you  might say hey, I can go a little bit farther.  I'm like at 80, maybe 90% of my motion,  compared to when I first did this,   especially in the morning when people  tend to be stiffest with hip arthritis.   So you want to do this also hourly throughout  the day. But I admit that this is a little more   challenging to do hourly, because you have to  lie down. So I would do as best as you can.  I would shoot to do 10 rounds of this  throughout the day. And it generally   isn't too difficult to do this. So people  will be okay. But the main difficulty people   have is getting up and down from the floor. So if it's just not easy for you to go to your   bed or a couch, it basically if you're not at  home, then you might skip this one in the day,   but you could still fit it, you could still  do the first exercise. But this exercise is   a little more thorough than the fidgeting  exercise because of fidgeting exercises,   small movement, this one's big movements. However, the fidgeting exercise, the frequency   of that is really important to circulate the fluid  inside your hip joints. This one frequency is also   important but the focus the intent is to work  through your full available pain free range of   motion. So it's a little different, intense.  Now the third exercise is glute squeezes.  This is critically important because part of the  root problem that sets up hip osteoarthritis,   which is what leads to getting a hip replacement  is glute muscle weakness. And just so you so I'm   clear here, the glute muscles are the butt  muscles, the muscles that are in the back of   your hip right here. These tend to be very weak. Whenever I see my patients here that have hip   arthritis, they tend to have little to no butt  muscles. And even for women that are more curvy   and voluptuous that have bigger hips, they  may appear to have bigger muscles back there,   but when we muscle test them, they're very  weak and they're not using them very well.  So part of getting the hips healthier for the long  term, so that you might delay a hip replacements,   and possibly even avoid it completely, is you  have got to get bigger glute muscles, you've got   to get stronger glute muscles and use them more  frequently throughout the day in the appropriate   way. So the best way to start is by simply  tightening up your glute muscles while avoiding   tightening up all your thigh muscles. So seems easy, but you got to put some   thought into this. So just find  somewhere comfortable to sit.   And then you're going to tighten your glute  muscles and you should feel like your whole   body lifts up a bit just like I'm doing right  there because the muscles squeeze and they tighten   up and thicken under your bottom here or in your  bottom. And when you do that, you should feel that   the muscles start to tire out a little bit. Now what you don't want to feel though,   is those thigh muscles also working a lot.  So you're probably going to feel that the   first time you do this, you're going to feel  your thigh muscles right here on the front,   maybe in the back to squeeze. So you've got  to find the percentage that you can squeeze   your glutes at without your thighs working. So if I went 100% Right there, I can feel my   thighs kind of wanting to work. So now I'm  going to back off and just go like 50% Now I   can go 7080 I'm at about 90 right here and my my  legs just on the verge of wanting to work, so I'm   going to hold it right here for 10 seconds, it's  very important that you hold it for 10 seconds,   after 10 seconds, he can relax. And then you got  to repeat this 10 times. So squeeze the glutes,   not too hard that your thigh muscles are working. After squeezing it, then relax.   And that's to, I'm not going to do all 10 Right  here, but you get the idea. You're squeezing your   glutes, holding it for 10 seconds, and then relax.  Now, this glute squeezing exercise key, it's more   of a training thing, not a strengthening thing.  At this point, you're trying to train your glutes   to work apart from your thigh muscles. Because in future exercises that you'll   have to do to get your glutes stronger, you  have to be able to isolate those glutes and   having that conscious control over your butt  muscles is really important so that when you   go do the more aggressive exercises that are  going to strengthen your glutes, you're not   incidentally working out your thigh muscles too. And you're going to accidentally working your   thigh muscles. And then that means that you're  going to technically be doing a thigh muscle   workout. And it's those thigh muscles that start  to take over for the glutes. And that feeds into   the hip osteoarthritis problem, it's going to feed  into the root problem that sets up hip arthritis.  So you don't want to be doing that. So you can do  this in standing too, which I really like. Because   then you can do this almost anywhere,  you can be standing in line somewhere,   you could be at a store, you could be sitting  down at home or in the car you can technically   do this line down to. So all you're going to  do in standing is squeeze your hip muscles,   which is going to shove your hips forward. But again, you can't be firing those thigh   muscles, you have to find the percentage  that you can work at where your glutes work,   but your thighs do not so tight. But muscles  here I'm at about 70 80%. Now I'm at 90 95%.   And I feel my thighs wanting to work, but I'm  okay right here, hold it for 10 seconds 2456789   10 and then relax. And this shouldn't hurt. This should feel really good on your hips. Now,   the only reason it would hurt if you  have hip arthritis to do this exercise   is if it's extremely severely flared up right  now. Like if you just went through a flare up,   it's gotten significantly worse. Maybe recently,  or maybe it's been really bad for weeks or months,   then it could hurt, you've got to back off on the  intensity of doing this and work at like 10% or 5%   Just get your glutes to turn on a teeny tiny bit. And over time as you flare down, yeah, stop doing   things that slow you down, like being on your feet  too much. You know what flares you up. I mean,   you know, when you go through your day, and you'd  say, I'm going to, I'm going to hit those stairs,   or I got to go to the grocery store  and it just kills me all the time.  You probably should be on a cane, or a walker,  maybe some crutches, you need to offload your   hips so that you can get that the joint the ball  and socket joint to rest a bit. But you can still   do your daily activities you get maybe you got to  use a scooter at the grocery store to you know,   the motorized scooter, you've got to get off  your feet and let your hip joint rest so that   you can do these exercises. So he can delay it,  maybe even prevent a hip replacement surgery.  Okay, Exercise number four is head to heel  rocking, this one's also improving your mobility.   So you're going to have to get on hands and knees  on this one. So this one's a bit more advanced,   you have to have your knees okay, you may skip  this one if you have if you just can't get into   the position or it's this is not going to be  as easy to do throughout the day regularly.  But I would go to do this at least twice  a day would be fantastic. Like before you   get up out of bed or you know sometime  in the morning because you're usually   around a bed. And then sometime in the  evening when you're headed towards bed,   because you can climb onto the bed and do this  you don't have to get up and down from the floor.  However, if you feel like getting the up and  down from the floor is what you need to do,   and go for it. I like this one a lot. A lot  of people tell me they really benefit from   this one. That's why I've included it here. So  you're just going to get on your hands and knees,   you can be on your fists, I like to be on my fist. It's just more comfortable on my on my wrists.   But you can be flat handed to you  if that's comfortable for you.   And if your knee hurts a little trick is to  put pillows under it, put a pillow or a folded   blanket or towel, just cushion it. And oftentimes  that helps. It might if your knee is stiff, then   you're going to have trouble with this exercise,  you may skip it and focus on the other ones.  And all you're going to do on this is slowly and  comfortably go back just a comfortable amount   and then come back up. And do this for one minute.  You might get in 2030 reps, maybe 40 If you go   a bit faster, but the point here is not to go  fast. It's to improve your mobility in your hips.   Nice and easy. You can pause some people  like to pause right here and stretch a bit.  They feel like their hip feels good. When you  get there, and then something else you can do   is shift your hips over. So I'm moving my  hips over this way towards my left foot,   and go back with my hips shut out to the left. So  it's like I'm aiming that way. And you can go the   other way too. So you can add slight different  motions to the hip joints as you go back.   So I'll tell people just to play with the motion,  go back and forward. And don't push it too much.  This shouldn't be an aggressive stretch, it  should be a mild, comfortable motion that   is focused out promoting more mobility in your  hip. So you need to get yourself into a routine   of doing these four exercises, at least a few  of them maybe the first two or three exercises   depending on your schedule and your location  and how you can get up and down from the ground   all those factors you need to think about. But if you get into some consistency and   some obsession with doing these exercises,  you should begin to see an improvement in   your hip mobility and then the use of your glute  muscles and that will get you some relief in your   hip joints have got a playlist full of videos  for people suffering from hip osteoarthritis.   Go check that out in the description here  below. I'll see you in the next video. Bye
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