Broken hip and symptom of blood loss to bone

sandyocean
sandyocean Posts: 4
edited December 2010 in Health, fitness & training
Hi all I feel a bit of a fraud as I am not a bike rider, but I happened to come across the site while looking for help re my broken hip. Angulated fracture straight thru femur. Luckily I was operated on in about 6 and half hours so only just out of the preferred 6 hour criteria they have to assist the bone from dying from lack of blood supply. That was 6 weeks ago. Just had x ray and 80% is completely healed, fracture line gone but there is still the last bit to heal, so although I am allowed 50% body weight on it now, I have to go another 6 weeks before walking. Luckily I have no more commitments, so will just relax and get used to not whizzing around just yet.
The main reason I am on here is that I noticed people discussing the lack of blood supply and someone said a pain in the groin can mean that. My doctor at hospital said the pain is continuous. I have a sharp pain near the groin but only when i move in certain angles. He said that is totally fine. By the way my x-rays just showed blood flowing fine around the joint etc, so the pain near my groin is not continual, so just having a pain near there is fine. Or well as fine as can be expected. The blood loss thing occurs in 50% of broken hips apparently.
lI am allergic to pain killers (chemicals) so it has been a pretty painful experience, especially when it happened through to about 12 hours after surgery. I treat everything with natural products.I've been using Comfrey cream, Arnica cream, Tea tree oil (as an antiseptic for the wound) which completely healed within two weeks. Taking high Ascorbic acid instead of antibiotics. I also eat organic food. I think it helps and I react to chemicals in food anyway and as we know most food is littered with them. Just a personal choice. I am 66 and in Australia. I wish all of us a speedy recovery and I understand how many long to get back on their bikes. I long to get back in the surf. Hopefully I will walk out of the hospital after my next x-ray. :D

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  • captainfly
    captainfly Posts: 1,001
    Are you talking about Avascular necrosis with the bone? This is different from pain due to lack of circulation and in itself is unlikely to cause pain until the bone degrades and causes arthritis like symptoms.
    I suffer from Avascular necrosis in both scaphoids (wrist bone) and have seen a hand surgeon who was suprises at my ability to revasculate them with a regime of weight lifting and punchbag/makiwara (controlled loading and controlled impact :roll: ), which hurt less than playing video games :o
    As for training staps with flexible splints do a reasonable job for spreading the load, anti infamatory drugs (taken for lots of other joint damage), some suppliments I find hemp oil to be the most worthwhile and chi gung/chee kung, (phonetic from the chinese) as emotive pain control, means things just hurt but not enough to make me want to trow up :wink:
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  • sandyocean
    sandyocean Posts: 4
    Yes, that was what i was referring to. You sounds as though you have done a great job. I am familar with chi Gung.
  • captainfly
    captainfly Posts: 1,001
    edited December 2010
    If you know of chi gung then some of the soft techniques will help with flexibility and loading, they are in their most basic form a way of absorbing impact and loading though muscle control which leads to better control of sensation. Only works if you belive and want it to :wink:
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    Mongoose Teocali
    Giant STP0

    Why are MTB economics; spend twice as much as you intended, but only half as much as you wish you could afford? :roll:
  • sandyocean
    sandyocean Posts: 4
    Thank you
  • neninja
    neninja Posts: 424
    A mate suffered avascular necrosis in his hips as a side effect of drugs use to reduce brain swelling following a brain tumour operation. Started with some pain and discomfort and it became more and more uncomfortable for him to walk.

    One hip collapsed completely - the ball of the femur broke away. He's now had one hip replacement and is back mountain biking (much to his surgeons displeasure).

    The other hip will need doing eventually but didn't degrade as fast as the first one.
  • turpinr
    turpinr Posts: 255
    neninja wrote:
    A mate suffered avascular necrosis in his hips as a side effect of drugs use to reduce brain swelling following a brain tumour operation. Started with some pain and discomfort and it became more and more uncomfortable for him to walk.

    One hip collapsed completely - the ball of the femur broke away. He's now had one hip replacement and is back mountain biking (much to his surgeons displeasure).

    The other hip will need doing eventually but didn't degrade as fast as the first one.
    did the doctors say when his second hip will need doing ??
  • neninja
    neninja Posts: 424
    As I understand it they'll do it at the point at which it impacts on his quality of life and work. They wanted to let the first one strengthen as long as possible.

    When the surgeon operated on the first hip he couldn't believe he was still able to walk and cope with the pain. The ball of the femur had broken away and he was bearing his weight on the flat end of the femur.

    I don't think they'll let it go that far this time.
  • turpinr
    turpinr Posts: 255
    neninja wrote:
    As I understand it they'll do it at the point at which it impacts on his quality of life and work. They wanted to let the first one strengthen as long as possible.

    When the surgeon operated on the first hip he couldn't believe he was still able to walk and cope with the pain. The ball of the femur had broken away and he was bearing his weight on the flat end of the femur.

    I don't think they'll let it go that far this time.
    i was encouraged to carry on cycling by the specialist at the pre-op before my hip replacement.i was even talking to the anaesthetist during the op about cycling till they asked me if i wanted to ' sleep '
    i wasn't in as much pain as your mate must have been though, before my op
  • neninja
    neninja Posts: 424
    The surgeon actively encouraged road cycling but felt that mountain biking at Whinlatter 5 weeks after the surgery was perhaps ill advised.

    Something to do with the type of hip replacement in that it needed time to bond and for the bone to grow around the join or something.
  • turpinr
    turpinr Posts: 255
    neninja wrote:
    The surgeon actively encouraged road cycling but felt that mountain biking at Whinlatter 5 weeks after the surgery was perhaps ill advised.

    Something to do with the type of hip replacement in that it needed time to bond and for the bone to grow around the join or something.
    whinlatter at 5 weeks does sound a bit much :D has he fallen off since ??
    he may have had afull replacement mine was a resufacing.
  • neninja
    neninja Posts: 424
    It was a full replacement. The head of the femur had disintegrated and the hip socket was trashed.

    One new titanium head and socket later and he's now back to enjoying riding again. He's fallen off a couple of times but is being pretty sensible and luckily both falls were several months after the op.
  • turpinr
    turpinr Posts: 255
    neninja wrote:
    It was a full replacement. The head of the femur had disintegrated and the hip socket was trashed.

    One new titanium head and socket later and he's now back to enjoying riding again. He's fallen off a couple of times but is being pretty sensible and luckily both falls were several months after the op.
    mines titanium too.i've had quite a few offs, one was bad enough to break 2 ribs and another did my coccyx for months.i don't want to keep testing it by falling off but nobody else does either

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