Heal Your Hips, Second Edition: How to Prevent Hip Surgery-and What to Do If You Need It

by Lynda Huey, Robert Klapper

Overview

The best-selling guide to hip health is now new and improved.

When Heal Your Hips was first published in 1999, its practical and long-overdue guidance was a revelation for the millions enduring the pain of hip deterioration and injury. This updated edition of Heal Your Hips includes even more groundbreaking content. Fundamental concepts from the original are still included, such as innovative preventative and rehabilitative measures and step-by-step exercises with instructional images. The up-to-date version now includes many breakthroughs in the orthopedic field including the author’s own KlapperVision®—using common household objects to explain intricate anatomical structures in a way accessible to anyone. The result is the same: Heal Your Hips is still the only comprehensive hip health guide you will ever need.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630267568
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	10/13/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Lynda Huey, is the author of The Complete Waterpower Workout Book . She and Dr. Klapper have also written Heal Your Knees: How to Prevent Knee Surgery & What to Do If You Need It. She is the President of CompletePT Pool & Land Physical Therapy in West Los Angeles, which is the most advanced aquatic therapy center in Southern California and has treated over 20,000 patients. Her pool program is used by many people world-wide.

Robert Klapper, MD, is Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Group in Los Angeles. He has performed surgery on over twelve thousand people, but tries to keep all of them out of the operating room by first having them try conservative treatments such as pool therapy. He has written articles for Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research and the American Journal of Sports Medicine . He is the host of ESPN radio’s “Weekend Warrior” and the sports medicine expert on Fox Sports 1 TV.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

1 The Magic of Water and Movement 1

2 Hip Basics 17

3 The Right Diagnosis 35

4 X-Rays, CT Scans, and MRIs 57

5 Femoroacetabular Impingement 73

6 The Right Treatment 81

7 Win-Win: Prevention or Prehab 97

8 Getting Started in the Pool 111

9 A Pool Program for Hip Patients 127

10 Postsurgical Pool Program 173

11 The Transition from Pool to Land 201

12 A Land Program for Hip Patients 209

13 Hip Arthroscopy 235

14 Hip Implant Surgery 251

15 In and Out of the Hospital 269

16 After Surgery: Rehab Programs 291

Glossary 313

Appendix 323

About the Authors 327

Index 329