After hip replacement, you should pay attention to the cleanliness and hygiene of the wound, rehabilitation exercises, maintaining correct standing and sitting postures, and preventing venous thrombosis of the lower limbs.
1. Pay attention to the cleanliness and hygiene of the wound: Hip replacement surgery is more traumatic and the wound is also bigger, so you should pay attention to the cleanliness and hygiene of the wound area after the surgery and change the medicine regularly to avoid the infection of the wound area.
2. Rehabilitation exercise: after hip replacement surgery, rehabilitation training is more important to avoid muscle atrophy or adhesion of the joints, according to the recovery of the situation to choose the appropriate training methods, the beginning of the time you can be in bed for passive activities. As the condition recovers, you can take the initiative to train the hip and knee flexion and extension ability, and then gradually get out of bed on crutches.
3. Maintain correct standing and sitting posture: after the operation, you should also pay attention to avoid weight bearing on the hip joint area, maintain correct standing and sitting posture, don’t lean forward and bend over, don’t sit in too short a chair.
4. Prevention of lower extremity venous thrombosis: this kind of surgery requires bed rest for a period of time, and you need to use drugs to prevent lower extremity venous thrombosis, such as warfarin and rivaroxaban.
There are many other things to pay attention to after hip replacement, you should follow the doctor’s instructions to strengthen the attention, if there are uncomfortable symptoms, you should consult a doctor in time.