Hip Care Post-OP

Partial or Total Hip Replacement

• Keep dressing on until post-op visit
• Ice and elevate frequently for pain and selling; before and after activity
• Exercise your ankle frequently when resting
• Take your pain medication as prescribed
• Resume your regular home medications unless instructed otherwise
• Resume your regular diet
• Use a walker or crutches for ambulation
• Ambulate as tolerated
• Walk daily increasing to tolerance
• Follow your hip precautions as directed in the hospital; use chairs with arms, no bending at the waist more than 90 degrees
• Call for an appointment to be 14 days from the day of surgery
• Home health care arrangements will have been made on your behalf prior to leaving the hospital or rehab facility
• Any problems call the office or go to the nearest emergency room