hip fracture / limp

[fairylights87]

hi there.

my partner broke his hip at the end of february and had a sucessful operation where they fixed the broken bone with pins/screws.

he had a three month checkup / xray and the consultant was very happy with how it looked.

however, he is still limping pretty badly and tends to still be in quite a bit of pain after a short walk. the GP's aren't really doing anything apart from prescribing co-codamol.

has anyone else broken their hip and how long did the limping / pain take to settle.

many thanks!

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

Hi,

Very sorry to hear about your partner’s hip, but this is the forum for PMR and GCA, so unless he has either if those I doubt if we can help.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

This is the PMRGCA forum - if anyone has hoipp stuff it has been hip replacements which aren;t quite the same.

But I'd say that 3 months is still pretty early days. Has he had rehab physiotherapy? The physio is probably the person to ask.

[SnazzyD]

Sounds like he needs to have some physio to try to avoid other problems due to limping and not using the muscles he needs to properly.

[Pongo13]

I broke mine and have 3 screws. Saw physio once. Moved around after four weeks and walking improved daily. Back at work within 3 months. Osteopath found I had one leg longer than other (slightly) but never limped. And no pain. In fact I started exercising massively as it was ‘my new best friend’ the dr said. Sadly , coincidentally that’s when I started to get pmr....