by Gareth Williams | Nov 15, 2021 | Beginners Info, Personal Hygiene, Safety
Helpful Items After Hip Replacement: A guide to being prepared for recovery. Having hip replacement surgery, is pretty intimidating for most people, and their caregivers. But it doesn’t have to be. There are quite a few relatively inexpensive items which will...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 15, 2021 | Beginners Info
How To Sit In A Chair After Hip Replacement: An Illustrated Guide After a hip replacement, if you have been told that you need to follow precautions when sitting down, and standing up, you will need to – sit and stand using a walker use a chair with armrests use...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 13, 2021 | Beginners Info, Personal Hygiene, Safety
Do You Need A Raised Toilet Seat After An Anterior Hip Replacement ? At the time of my Mom’s hip replacement I was rather overwhelmed by all the precautions that she, and I, would have to remember to follow, so she didn’t hurt her new hip, and my Mom was...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 9, 2021 | Beginners Info, Personal Hygiene, Safety
When Can You Use A Regular Toilet Seat After A Hip Replacement ? After a hip replacement, there are going to be a number of precautions you are going to have to follow, regardless of which type of hip replacement you have. And it is going to get pretty tedious. At...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 7, 2021 | Beginners Info, Personal Hygiene, Safety
Toileting After A Hip Replacement: How To Do It Safely ? Toileting is probably the subject, that people who are facing a posterior or lateral approach hip replacement, are most embarrassed to talk about, but you have too. When my mom had her hip replacement, we asked...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 6, 2021 | Beginners Info, Personal Hygiene, Safety
How To Wipe Your Bottom After A Hip Replacement ? You, just like my mom and I, will have lots of questions about how, and what, you can do after a hip replacement, and some of those questions are rather more embarrassing to ask than others, but nonetheless they still...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 6, 2021 | Beginners Info, Safety
What’s The Correct Chair Height After Hip Replacement ? If you have had a posterior or lateral hip replacement, to find a good height for your chair seat you need to measure from the floor to the back of your knee, to the point that it bends, and make sure that...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 5, 2021 | Beginners Info, Safety
How to pick things up after hip replacement If you are about to have posterior or lateral hip replacement surgery, you are probably rather intimidated by all the things that you have been told you cannot do for a while. Rest assured, though, my mom and I found lots of...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 3, 2021 | Beginners Info, Safety
When Can I Bend Down After A Hip Replacement ? Before you have your hip replacement, you, like my mom, will be told a whole slew of things that you are not allowed to do, if it is either a posterior, or a lateral hip replacement, and not many things if it is an...
by Gareth Williams | Nov 2, 2021 | Beginners Info, Personal Hygiene, Safety
How Long Do I Need To Use A Raised Toilet Seat For, After A Hip Replacement: Guide with Illustrations Having hip replacement surgery can be incredibly confusing with all the things you aren’t allowed to do, and for how long. My mom had a posterior hip...
