Although hip necrosis cannot be treated causally, physiotherapy plays a major role in the treatment of hip necrosis. No matter how advanced the hip necrosis is and regardless of the patient’s age, the goal of physiotherapy is to relieve the hip and to maintain its mobility and mobility as much as possible. This makes it possible to slow down the progressive disease process or possibly even bring it to a standstill. In addition, it gives the patient back more quality of life, so that under certain circumstances, an almost normal everyday life is possible, but without excessive strain on the hip joint.
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is an integral part of the therapy for most cases of femoral head necrosis. Especially since adults can only be treated symptomatically, it is important to improve the mobility of the joint as much as possible and to limit and alleviate the pain of the patient. When a patient with a diagnosis of femoral head necrosis comes to the physiotherapy facility, it is first of all important to establish the patient’s current state of health and the stage of the disease.
Particularly in the first stages of femoral head necrosis, when the destruction of the joint is not yet so far advanced, much work can still be done in the direction of mobility and mobility, so that the muscles and ligaments surrounding the femoral head can also additionally stabilize the joint and thus relieve the strain on it. If the disease is already more advanced, passive exercises are mainly used, in which the physiotherapist moves the joint without the help of the patient in order to maintain mobility. Physiotherapy also plays an important role in the subsequent rehabilitation phase of a previous operation for femoral head necrosis. It is not possible to say in general which exercises and measures are used during physiotherapy, as the situation is different for each patient and an individual therapy plan is always drawn up.
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