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2 years after my hip replacement

Shocking 2 years after my hip replacement. Was it worth it worth the hassle?

January 24, 2022 Martin Main sections, Hip replacement stories

Amazingly it’s now 2 years after my hip replacement and as I munched the last of my mince pies I wondered whether it had all

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18 months after my hip replacement

18 months after my hip replacement and some bad habits need to be broken

September 13, 2021 marvinmidlife Hip replacement stories, Main sections, Midlife Health & Fitness

18 months after my hip replacement and recovery is still ongoing. It’s my bad habits I need to break.

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Evel Knievel liked amazing stunts. Was he a hip replacement hero or broken bone madman? 1

Evel Knievel liked amazing stunts. Was he a hip replacement hero or broken bone madman?

January 25, 2021 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness

Evel Knievel is proof that a hip replacement isn’t necessarily the worst thing that can happen to you, and you can break a lot of other bones before it restricts you too much

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hip replacement recovery scar

12 months after – a total hip replacement recovery story. Was 2020 the strangest year ever?

January 14, 2021 Martin Hip replacement stories, Midlife Health & Fitness

12 months in my total hip replacement recovery story. In the end 2020 was much more than that, with Covid, lockdowns and a new job being thrown into the mix.

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Zwift try something new today

Try something new to save your sanity. Surprisingly it was Brussels and Zwift that did it for me.

November 9, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness

With Covid keeping us locked up once more, the advice is to try something new if you want to avoid cabin fever. With my hip

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6 months after hip replacement,

Six months after hip replacement. Did it exceed all expectations?

July 25, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

My performance review of my hip replacement 6 months after the operation. What rating will I give it?

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hip replacement story starting with arthritis

Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks 3 to 7 (Part 6)

March 26, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

A total hip replacement recovery story, charting progress from week 3 to week 7 post hip replacement operation

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hip replacement story starting with arthritis

Hip replacement recovery days 6 to 21. Coming on in leaps and bounds. Sadly not. (Part 5)

February 11, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

Hip replacement recovery story: the day 6 to day 21 improvements post hip replacement operation

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hip replacement story starting with arthritis

Hip replacement surgery and week 1 recovery. It all goes horribly wrong… (Part 4)

January 30, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

Hip replacement surgery is supposed to be routine, but I had a horrible blip. A tale of the operation, blip and recovery.

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hip replacement story starting with arthritis

Scarily close to middle age hip replacement. What was I thinking pre-op? (Part 3)

January 13, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

Having signed up to a middle age hip replacement, the day fast approached. I occasionally had doubts but pain convinced me otherwise. This is the story of what happened next…

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hip replacement story starting with arthritis

Shock decision about having a total hip replacement at 50! 5 things that worried me. (Part 2)

December 16, 2019 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

Total hip replacement at 50 needs some thinking about. This is part 2 of my total midlife hip replacement story – how it came to be

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hip replacement story starting with arthritis

My body used to fix itself…sadly it doesn’t any more and so midlife arthritis ends with a hip replacement story (Part 1)

October 31, 2019 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

Arthritis isn’t for old people, it can strike at any time if you’re unlucky. The start of a hip replacement story.

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Feature: Hip Replacement

hip replacement story starting with arthritis
A hip replacement story, from initial twinge to running around post op.

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