Before surgery, or right after
Pain
Calm it down, or prep for it.
If surgery is ahead of you, we settle the pain and bank strength now. If it is behind you, we start with swelling, comfort and safe motion.
What We Treat
Hip replacement recovery in the East Valley.
Whether the date is still on the calendar or already behind you, the new joint is only half the job. Walking across a parking lot without thinking about it is the other half.
Sound Familiar?
Does this sound like your hip?
- Socks and shoes have turned into a two-hand production with a plan
- You catch yourself hitching to one side before you have crossed the room
- Getting out of a low car seat takes a hand on the door and a moment
- Your surgery is scheduled and nobody has told you how to prepare for it
- You are leaning on the walker longer than anyone said you would
- A groin or thigh ache that shows up after ten minutes at the kitchen sink
Two or more? Keep reading.
Why It Happens
A new hip fixes the joint. It doesn’t fix the limp.
By the time a hip gets replaced, you have usually spent years working around it. Your stride got shorter, the glutes and side-hip muscles that hold your pelvis level got weaker, and your other leg and low back picked up the difference. Surgery gives you a joint that no longer grinds. It does not give back the strength you lost getting there, and it leaves muscles that were cut, stretched and moved needing to be retrained.
You kept going on that hip because things needed doing and nobody else was going to do them. That is also exactly why you will do this rehab properly. To be clear about what we do: Moore Physical Therapy does not perform surgery. We get you ready for it, and we do the rehab afterward. Both halves are care we offer, with a licensed physical therapist directing your care at every visit, working from the precautions your surgeon sets.
The Honest Truth
Surgery is the event. Recovery is the work.
If you keep waiting
- The limp you had before surgery walks straight back in after it
- Weak side-hip muscles show up as a hip drop, then as knee and back pain
- Guessing at the precautions on your own means either breaking them or never moving
If you start this week
- If surgery is ahead of you, you go in stronger and start from a better place
- Your therapist knows the precautions, and coaches them out loud instead of scaring you
- You get a plan with an endpoint, and the endpoint is stairs, curbs and errands
Nobody regrets starting too early. Plenty of people regret waiting.
How We Fix It
The same four phases. Built for a new hip.
Every plan has an endpoint. Here’s what the four phases look like around a hip replacement.
Precautions and walking
Prime
Get the gait back first.
Motion inside your surgeon’s precautions, hip flexor and rotation work, and a walking pattern coached step by step instead of left to habit.
Strength and stairs
Perform
Rebuild the hip that holds you up.
Glute and side-hip strength is the whole difference between walking and limping. Then stairs, single-leg control and standing endurance.
Before we finish
Prevent
Trust it, then keep it.
Curbs, car seats, groceries and distance get loaded before we finish, and you leave with the work that protects the new joint.
Rebecca, my lead physical therapist is the best! I can’t tell you how much she’s helped me over the past year.
Shared by Bill T. · Switched clinics
Before: left another clinic when his insurance changed
After: a year of care he says made a real difference
Switched clinics
Over a year
Questions, Answered
What people ask about hip replacement recovery.
If you have time before the date, yes. Going in with more hip strength and more motion gives you more to work with on the other side, and it means the exercises are already familiar. We do pre and post-surgical rehab, so the clinic that preps you is the clinic that rebuilds you. If your hip is already replaced, we start from wherever you are today, whatever stage that is.
Your plan stays inside the precautions your surgeon gives you, and we coach them out loud until they feel automatic. Movement is how the muscles around a new hip come back. Sitting still is what costs you. Being sore after a session is normal, and sharp pain, new swelling or a leg that suddenly feels different are things we want to hear about, because they change the plan.
You get an estimated number of visits at your evaluation, and a reason for the number. Your plan runs through all four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform and Prevent, and you will always know which one you are in and what is left. The endpoint here is practical, not a date: stairs, curbs, the car, and a full day on your feet without paying for it that night.
Still Deciding?
Not sure where to start?
You don’t need to know which clinic or which service is right before you reach out. Start a request, or call the clinic closest to you, and we’ll help you sort out the rest.
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Moore Physical Therapy – Mesa
- 2500 S Power Rd #123, Mesa, AZ 85209 (opens in new tab)
- (480) 218-1344
- Fax: (480) 218-1356
- mesa@moorephysicaltherapy.com
- Mon–Fri 7am–6pm · Sat & Sun closed
Moore Physical Therapy – Tempe
- 2153 E Baseline Road #103, Tempe, AZ 85283 (opens in new tab)
- (480) 833-7879
- Fax: (480) 844-8411
- tempe@moorephysicaltherapy.com
- Mon–Fri 7am–6pm · Sat & Sun closed
Moore Physical Therapy – Gold Canyon
- 6410 S Kings Ranch Rd Bldg 2 Ste 4, Gold Canyon, AZ 85118 (opens in new tab)
- (480) 982-7948
- Fax: (480) 982-9145
- gc@moorephysicaltherapy.com
- Mon–Fri 7am–6pm · Sat & Sun closed