Summary | Physiotherapy after hip surgery

Summary

The physiotherapeutic treatment after hip surgery depends on the type of surgery, medical guidelines and the wound healing phases. The goals of early functional therapy are to relieve pain, support healing, restore joint mobility, strengthen the surrounding muscles and improve coordination. The joint should be able to withstand everyday and physiological stress.

For this purpose, early functional physiotherapy is usually started immediately after the operation, which is continued in a rehabilitation center if necessary, and then accompanied by outpatient physiotherapy. As healing progresses, the patient is increasingly responsible for the regular performance of the exercises that are essential for the restoration of joint function. There is a variety of exercises that can be performed in the individual stages of the wound healing phases.

A program of exercises should be agreed with the therapist and then performed by the patient on his own initiative. In the early stages, passive therapeutic techniques still play a major role. The importance of these techniques decreases with advanced healing.