Hip Replacement Surgery Tips

Are you tired of knee and hip pain and you are looking for a treatment? Which therapeutic methods have you used to improve pain and other problems that happened to you because of damages to these joints? Certainly, you know that surgery won’t be first way of your treatment. In this section, we consider the reasons of hip pains emergence and its treatment ways and explain hip replacement in detail.

What are the reasons of hip pains creation?

Joint between pelvis and thigh is called hip that is one of the biggest joints of body. A part of pelvis bone that is similar to bowl, is called acetabulum that sphere part of thigh places in it.
According to different reasons that we point them in the following, this important and large joint of your body may be damaged:
● Getting an illness with the name of rheumatoid arthritis that causes tightness, pain and creation of inflation in hips and disturbs your walking and other daily activities.
● Another illness with the name of necrosis that causes death of bone in joints.
● Different damages in hip
● Bone fracture because of bone tumor

All above factors can disturb domain of legs movements in your body and because of pain in this region, you cannot do many of your daily activities. But what is appropriate treatment methods for you?
For treatment, go to an orthopedist and get help from him/her. Your doctor offers you following treatments, through examination and different tests:
● Medicine therapy
● Physiotherapy
● Exercising programs for improving performance of hip and decreasing pain
● Using additional tools like walking stick or walker while you are walking
● Hip replacement surgery

As you see, surgery is the last step and after its preoperative stages and not getting desired results. If you did all preoperative stages and still your pain isn’t improved and results of different photography of hip, admit joint damages and lack of improvement, it’s time of surgery.
Perhaps in your country, long waiting queues for receiving free therapeutic services, gives you this chance to research about travel to Iran for your treatment.
Iran is a cheap destination for medical tourists in the world. Procedure of performing this surgery in therapeutic centers is same for both Iranian and international patients. But, you as a health tourist, need to do a different process before travelling to Iran and receiving therapeutic services. Services like initial medical consultations, initial acceptance, ticket reservation, providing hotel and etc.
In MOJ ARAMESH AMITIS company, we are ready to provide all services of health tourists of Iran and facilitate all processes related to international patients.

All preoperative activities of hip replacement

You performed many of initial examinations in your country and according to doctor’s recommendation, you have decided to perform surgery. To receive initial consultations and all services in Iran, before travelling to Iran, it is necessary to send some of your records and examinations to our specialist physicians in MOJ ARAMESH AMITIS:
● Images of radiography or sonography of hip that is taken less than a month ago
● Blood test
● Medical file and records
● Providing a list of all drugs that you use and surgeries you had performed before. Consumption of many drugs like aspirin and warfarin should be completely cut from ten days before surgery.
● If you have any kind of infection, inform us, and treat it before trip and then travel to Iran. Not-treating any type of infection and performing surgery while infection is still remained, can cause severe postoperative complications.
● Before travelling to Iran, treat your teeth completely. What is the relationship between tooth and hip? The answer is simple. Teeth infection after surgery will irritate you.
● Abandoning smoking and alcoholic drinks, some months before surgery.

Arthroscopy of pelvis or hip replacement:

After doing all mentioned stages, it’s the turn of surgery. Generally, the day before surgery and in some cases in the surgery day, you should be accepted in the hospital because your preparation process for surgery should be done. Our expert will come to your residential hotel and accompany you in all stages until your return to your country.
Above of this text, we spoke about ‎bowl acetabulum bones and bone on the top of thigh bone that is in the shape of sphere. When your pelvis is damaged because of different reasons, sphere and bowl bone that are usually inside each other, become eroded and prevent perfect and correct placement of epiphysis in acetabulum. During surgery, doctor reconverts it to a complete sphere through scraping acetabulum cavity and removing damaged parts and places an artificial metal or plastic bowl of polyethylene commodity in it. Then through removing epiphysis of thigh bone and removing damaged parts, doctor places artificial metal globe on it so that it can enter inside artificial cavity of acetabulum and move as real joint.

Therefore, your surgery will be performed in 2 – 3 hours and after it you will transferred to recovery room. In this part, according to the type of anesthesia that doctor selected for you, after stabilization of public status of body, you will be transferred to ward and will be hospitalized for 4 – 5 days and under supervision of treatment cadre.
If your surgery has been performed under general anesthesia, you shouldn’t eat anything until some hours after surgery, and after it by nurse’s permission, you can start drinking water and liquids, and if your surgery has been performed under local anesthesia, your bed should be completely in the horizontal and straight status and your head should be in low status and without movement.
Until some days after surgery, you will have postoperative pains that are controllable and you shouldn’t be worried. In addition to palliatives that are prescribed for controlling your pain, anticoagulant drugs will be also given you to eliminate the possibility of embolus. Dressing the wound of your surgery site will be changed regularly and after some days, a new photography will be done for you to ensure the status of new joints.

Postoperative necessary and unnecessary issues:

● Don’t forget the care of wound that will be trained at you and your retinues at the time of discharge, and if you have problem or any question, contact our physicians in MOJ ARAMESH AMITIS. We are ready to answer you, 24 hours a day.
● Don’t sleep on your stomach until 6 weeks after surgery
● Don’t bend ahead more than 90 degrees because the possibility of recent surgical joint dislocation will increase.
● In initial weeks after surgery use walking stick and walker to walk.
● When you are sitting be careful not to cross your legs.
● Use western toilet
● When you want to sleep, put a pillow between your legs.
● Don’t bend yourself for closing shoestring or everything else.
● When you are sitting your knees shouldn’t be in higher level than thigh
● Until 4months after surgery, sexual intercourse should be done in a way that your hip doesn’t circulate toward inside or outside.
● Say goodbye to driving for 2 months after surgery.
● To eliminate inflation that may be one of postoperative complications, use compression stockings
● Don’t forget physiotherapy and consumption of prescribed drugs.
Note that considering mentioned cases, is as important as selecting doctor and performing surgery. If your surgery is successful but you don’t consider mentioned cases, you should wait for undesired results.

How much is the approximate cost of hip replacement in Iran?

In Iran, the cost of this surgery is about 35 to 40 million Tomans that it also includes the expense of prosthesis.
According to this appropriate cost, it can be told that Iran is a cheap destination for treatment and this has caused the attention of government and private therapeutic centers to health tourism industry in recent years and now, Iran is one of the destinations of health tourists in the world and especially among neighbor countries.

Hip replacement and its insurance coverage
If you have all conditions of hip replacement surgery (click to see necessary conditions) and this surgery is among treatments that are under insurance coverage in your country, so don’t worry about expenses. Our hospitals, will give you all necessary documents after discharge to carry them to your country, and paid expenses will be returned to you.