Benefits
Patients that have undergone DAA hip replacement typically experience the following benefits:
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Minimal post-operative pain – with any pain subsiding within hours of surgery
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Shorter/quicker rehabilitation – usually starts within hours of surgery
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Shorter hospital stay ('LOS') – many go home the day after surgery
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Small, single incision scar – typically 6-7 cm
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Reduction in blood loss duringsurgery
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Elimination of limping – minimised muscle and nerve damage
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Reduced risk of dislocation – dislocation is usually associated with posterior hip structure damage – not touched in this procedure
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Quicker return to 'normal life' – a consequence of all of the above
Just see what this American patient has to say about her experience - having had experience of both procedures:
For example, this gentlemen was ready to go home only 6 hours after surgery:
And this lady was pain free only 45 minutes after surgery: