I'm a competitive masters swimmer (mid 40s) with an osteoarthritic hip. It's a question of when not whether I'll need to get a replacement. Are there any swimmers out there who have personal experience, advice, insight which would help with the making the choices of what to do and when to do it? It would also help to hear where the best sources of research information are which might help answer questions like - "will I have difficulty with racing dive starts, tumble turns or breaststroke kick (ie actions which place high stress forces on the hips)?"
Thanks and happy swimming.
Guy
Guy--
Not a doctor, but I did an article on hips a few years back for GQ magazine. Have you been checked out for a labral tear? Supposedly, this can cause a lot of problems, and some surgeons are correcting these arthroscopically. You said you were diagnosed with osteoarthritis, so I may be sending you barking up a wrong tree. But it's worth looking into just in case. If you live at all near Pittsburgh, there's a top notch hip guy, Dr. Marc Phillipone (spelling?) at the UPMC Sports Medicine Center whose done labral repairs on a bunch of big name pro athletes including, I'm pretty sure, golfer Greg Norman.
Hi to Ian, by the way!
Guy--
Not a doctor, but I did an article on hips a few years back for GQ magazine. Have you been checked out for a labral tear? Supposedly, this can cause a lot of problems, and some surgeons are correcting these arthroscopically. You said you were diagnosed with osteoarthritis, so I may be sending you barking up a wrong tree. But it's worth looking into just in case. If you live at all near Pittsburgh, there's a top notch hip guy, Dr. Marc Phillipone (spelling?) at the UPMC Sports Medicine Center whose done labral repairs on a bunch of big name pro athletes including, I'm pretty sure, golfer Greg Norman.
Hi to Ian, by the way!
