Survey: Running with Hip Replacement. Know anyone?

There are some good running with THR groups on Facebook.

I know several men & women in my masters running club who over the past several years?had hip replacements and are no longer running. Many who want to stay competitive are cycling. A few are race walking and walk some of our monthly club races.

I believe any competent orthopedic surgeon would advise against it. The high-impact forces generated by running are going to wear out the parts very quickly and there's a risk of breakage that could cause problems. I think most physicians are recommending low-impact excercise and sports. These are mechanical parts that don't have the ability to regenerate.

It's best for pain relief & improved mobility.

I had a full hip replacement ten months ago. I'm aged 65. In the last few months I've started playing tennis again - my main sport for the last thirty years, I ran in my youth - and then added a bit of jogging. I've even recently started doing a few wind sprints (8x100) and have felt fine. I can sprint at top speed (cough). I now have no pain or inhibition with the new hip. It is likely to improve even yet. The irony is that my other hip has acquired a few niggles from daily runs - it has also been diagnosed as arthritic but has been pain free - and I suspect if I continue high-impact activities it will likely require replacement like the other. But I couldn't be happier with the new hip. Apart from the quality of the surgery, I had maintained regular activity right up to the time of my op, so the muscles and tendons supporting the joints had remained strong. I kept my weight down.

I don't intend to continue running daily, but I like to be still be able to do it if I feel like it. High-impact is likely to wear my new joint out more quickly. So my fitness regime is likely to include a couple of days of tennis each week (mainly doubles or drills), a couple of gym sessions, regular work on a bike and maybe one short run with some sprints. In short, I would say that the new joint would enable me to run regularly and without pain but it would then probably require replacement sooner rather than later. My surgeon said I had a joint that was going to last me thirty or forty years, which I suggested to him was longer than I would need it. The miracles of modern medicine.

I underwent total hip replacement six years ago in March at the age of 64.

I had been running for 25 years - Nowadays I fast walk and alternate with a slight jog near the end of every km. So roughly I walk for 800 metres and then jog ( without stamping the feet, rather like a sort of glide) for the last 200 metres. That way I can walk/jog 7km in I hr - 10k in under 1 .30 and a half marathon in around 2.45 in this way . I only take part in two races yearly - one as mentioned in the Malta half marathon and the other is a hilly 10 miler which I cannot do without ! During the week I walk/jog in this manner about three times, twice for an hour or so and the Sunday run around 1.30,, the longest being 2.30 when training for the half.

The surgeon who operated knows about this regime and for the first two years I had favourable X rays taken. This year (my sixth year) I had another X ray taken to see if I was doing any damage to my hip, but the results were positive and no change was noticed from the first year. I admit I have decreased my running ( walk/jog) exercises, what with one thing and another and being a seventy year old (!) but I try to stick to my three times a week regime.

Having said that, I must mention that in that fateful year --2013 - my life was like this:

1. February10th - I suffered a heart attack whilst training for the Rome Marathon - I had run/jogged for 35 km when this happened and after being angiogrammed, I was told that I had to undergo triple by pass surgery later on that year.

2. March 13th - I slipped from a ladder whilst in the garden and fell on my hip and wrist thus having the total hip replacement plus broken wrist.

3. July 10th - Triple by pass surgery

4. - July 21st ,had to be operated in the stomach owing to the aspirin I was given for the heart surgery operation and which caused a stomach ulcer ! I was like a Zombie !!¬

Happily I recovered very fast in every intervention, owing to my fitness probably - and in February of 2014 I walked/jogged for the first time my 18th half marathon in this way. Up to this year and God willing I shall continue to do this in my seventies !

you're a badass. keep it up!

Hi! I just came across this. I am 47 (turning 48 next week) and I had a THR about a year and a half ago. I started jogging on an indoor track in February and built up to running 10k 3 times per week. By running, I mean slow jogging. I usually leave days in between "runs" and do cross trying stationary bike workouts on these days, plus some light weights and resistance bands. It's worked well for me so far, though I do feel a difference now that I've been jogging outside. Pavement is less friendly on the joints than the cushy track surface.

I had a THR in February 2019 at age 47. I started back running in May 2019 (run-walk combo) and am back at 6-9 miles with about a total of 15+ miles per week in September 2019. Prior to surgery I was regularly running about 20-25 miles per week.