Training around joint issues

[nickels]

So my doctor (a joint and pain specialist, apparently) told me my hips are fried, and to not lift anything, unless I'm doing it for work reasons.

But f@@k that, I'm not willing to stop lifting. And I'm not quite ready for hip replacement surgery either.

Does anyone have experience with working around this, or something similar?

 

[jm425]

I have mild arthritis in my hips. These days I don't do heavy squats or deads, instead, I go lighter and do more reps. I have less days where I am in pain as a result. I am also on hrt doing 3ius of gh daily which seems to help as well.

 

[chinaboy]

All my training works around joint issues. When I lift my joint health is my limiting factor. It doesn't mean I don't stimulate muscle growth. But I don't sacrifice joint health for more muscle stimulation.

With your situation it would be important to focus on stretching your enire hip often, daily; glutes, piriformis, quads, hams, hip flexors, IT band. A foam roller would be a good idea for this as well. The longer the muscles are surrounding a joint the less compression the joint will have.

Also changing your perspective on lifting. The muscle needs time under tension. You can do one leg body weight partial squats on a balance pad and get very similar time under tension compared to a two leg heavy squat session. The one leg balance squats translate more into engaging your stabilization muscles and promotes greater injury resistance and greater joint protection compared to a squat for weight and you can still have great looking wheels. Trust me. And if you learn ways to exercise like this you can still train legs and maybe even protect those hips better than before. I would work with a physical therapist. But talk to staff and make phone calls to find out who is good and who to avoid.

 

[chinaboy]

Also, most "joint specialists" are surgeons who make money with surgery. That is there tool. Most have a god complex and think only their work can fix people. They can be close minded and talk you out of alternate ideas not requiring surgery. Does your doc work with athletes or the elderly. Most work on the aging population and less so active people. Maybe get a perspective from a true sports doc.

Where I work one doc can send a person for surgery and another doc would send the person to physical therapy. Each doc finds a percentage of success yet have different protocols on how to achieve this.

 

[prostock]

yup

At 50 i had my left hip total rep and at 55 i had my right replaced because of athletics and osteoarthritis. If its bone on bone nothing will work not even oxycotin. Its extreme pain at it will radiated down to ur ankles in time. If you have some cartilage left try inj curricum @ 6 to 800 mgs/wk.. takes about 2 months to work its magic. something that will work with in a week is called Actiflex 4000. it has mega goodies in it for joint support and has made a world of diff for my joints.. hope this may help you sir.. pro

 

[nickels]

Thank you guys, I appreciate all your tips!

 

[JoshuaFTW]

Use people you know who sees an orthopedic surgeon for there problems and weed out the ones who always aim for surgery...My Op I have used twice where surgery was really the only answer,but instead on both times she tried other methods to try and see if it would heal without surgery and both times no surgery still get aches and pains but that comes with getting older...Hope you can get it at least prolonged and still be able to lift to your expectations...Good luck...

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[cryptasm]

At 50 i had my left hip total rep and at 55 i had my right replaced because of athletics and osteoarthritis. If its bone on bone nothing will work not even oxycotin. Its extreme pain at it will radiated down to ur ankles in time. If you have some cartilage left try inj curricum @ 6 to 800 mgs/wk.. takes about 2 months to work its magic. something that will work with in a week is called Actiflex 4000. it has mega goodies in it for joint support and has made a world of diff for my joints.. hope this may help you sir.. pro

Actiflex 4000 is for horses.. how do you dose it?

 

[prostock]

An ounce for 7 days to start then drop to 1tbl spoon 2 times a day. I bought a gallon and got a free quart for 85 buks. The ingredients and dosage numbers are certified true according to the manf rep i talked too . Hope this helps. pro

 

[Muay Thai]

At 50 i had my left hip total rep and at 55 i had my right replaced because of athletics and osteoarthritis. If its bone on bone nothing will work not even oxycotin. Its extreme pain at it will radiated down to ur ankles in time. If you have some cartilage left try inj curricum @ 6 to 800 mgs/wk.. takes about 2 months to work its magic. something that will work with in a week is called Actiflex 4000. it has mega goodies in it for joint support and has made a world of diff for my joints.. hope this may help you sir.. pro

ostarine will increase your bone density brother

 

[prostock]

Thankyou sir

ostarine will increase your bone density brother

I had no idea that osta was good for density/bone.. im checkn into it.. much appreciate. pro

 

[Nbencze]

I have partial thickness tears in both rotator cuff. Torn labrum so, and bone spurs. Still train every day. I just can't loft too heavy. Tb 500, and bpc -157 have helped greatly.

 

[VFW]

I was surprised, Actiflex 4000 doesn't taste that bad. Kind of a thick gritty liquid but not horrible.
Anyone remember drinking the old refrovit B d-ball? That was horrible! Hahahahah