Typical activities that patients get back to are horseback riding, gardening, golfing, biking really any activity that that they can enjoy. I even had a patient who recently completed an iron man, eighteen months after his hip replacement. Typically the patients that have an anterior approach return to their normal activities faster. When I’m typically educating patients about when is it time to resume activities that they enjoy, our typical mantra is go low go slow. So you slowly want to resume your activities and as your pain and activity level tolerate it, you can increase that to tolerance. So for golfers for example, I typically tell them to start out with putting and chipping three or four weeks out from surgery. And then typically by six weeks if they’re feeling good, they can golf nine holes.
