Patient guides
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Something still hurts. Recovery feels different from what you expected. Or another operation has been suggested. Find a guide to help you prepare for a clearer conversation.
Your patient guides
Hip replacement
Walking difficulties, tendon problems, leg length, painful implants and dislocation.
5 guides found
Limping after hip replacement
Understand a persistent limp by looking at walking, strength, pain and the hip replacement together.
Read the full guideGluteal or hip-abductor tendon injury after hip replacement
Review outer-hip pain or weakness and whether the tendons that support walking are involved.
Read the full guideLeg-length difference after hip replacement
Explore why your legs feel unequal and how that difference has been assessed.
Read the full guidePainful, loose or infected hip replacement
Understand the evidence behind a suspected implant problem and the questions that need resolving.
Read the full guideDislocation after hip replacement
After urgent treatment, review why the hip dislocated and the plan to reduce further episodes.
Read the full guideConsidering your first operation, or seeking general advice?
These guides cover the wider decision before treatment and making sense of different recommendations.
Told you need a knee replacement
A major, permanent decision. A second opinion is a reasonable step before committing to one.
Explore this decisionTold you need a hip replacement
One of the most effective operations in orthopaedics, but still major surgery. Reasonable to want a second view first.
Explore this decisionRecommended knee arthroscopy or meniscus surgery
Evidence on meniscus surgery has shifted over the past decade. Understand where you fit.
Explore this decisionACL injury
Torn your ACL and been given a plan, surgical or not? Weigh it up before committing.
Explore this decisionPain after joint surgery
Still in pain, or recovery is not going the way you expected? Work out why.
Explore this decisionConflicting advice
Been told different things by different clinicians? See where the disagreement actually lies.
Explore this decisionSecond Opinion Clinic
Talk through your next step.
£100 · 45 minutes · Monthly clinic sessions
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