The Surgery Was Just the Beginning. Here’s the Recovery Nobody Hands You at Discharge.
A local Doctor of Physical Therapy lays out the complete 12-week plan to get past “functional” and all the way back to the golf course, the trails, and the garden. The book is free.
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If you’ve had a hip replacement, or you have one scheduled, this book was written for you
You did everything right.
You trusted your surgeon. You showed up to your appointments. You followed the precautions. You did the exercises they gave you.
And something still feels off.
Maybe you’re limping a little more than you expected. Maybe your back started aching in a way it never did before surgery. Maybe you got back on the golf course and your follow-through is just gone. Maybe you tried a hike and your hip fatigued in ways it didn’t even before the operation.
Or maybe your surgery is still ahead of you and you’re determined to do this right the first time.
Either way, this book was written for you.
What you got at discharge was a handshake and a sheet of paper
Here’s something most patients are never told. Hip replacement surgery fixes the joint. It does not fix everything else.
For years before your surgery your body was quietly building compensations around a deteriorating hip. Shifting weight. Shortening your stride. Tightening some muscles, switching others off. Your nervous system rewired itself around the pain.
The surgery removes the pain. Those compensations don’t come out on the operating table with the old joint.
That is the gap this book fills. 178 pages of what should have come home with you.
178 pages. Every week mapped.
Here’s a piece of what you get.
The week-by-week roadmap, from the day of surgery through week 12 and beyond, so you always know whether you’re on track.
The 7 recovery mistakes that stall more hip replacements than the surgery itself.
Why the hip doesn’t heal in isolation, and why clinics that only look at the hip miss the real drivers.
The 6–12 week scar tissue window: the one deadline in recovery that’s real, and what to do before it closes.
The warning signs every patient should know. Which ones mean call your surgeon, and which mean your rehab plan needs a second look.
Return plans for golf, hiking, and gardening. Not “you’re cleared,” but the actual progressions that get you there.
Before, During, and After
Three stages, eight parts, twenty chapters. Read it front to back or jump straight to where you are.
Before
The decisions you make before surgery determine the recovery you have after it. Prehab, surgical approach, and the one choice almost nobody makes deliberately.
During
The first days home, a full week-by-week roadmap, the warning signs, scar tissue, strength, balance, gait, and the return to golf, trails, and the garden.
After
Staying strong for life. What long-term hip health actually takes once formal rehab ends.
Every chapter, nothing held back
Part One · Before the Surgery
Part Two · The First Days Home
Part Three · Know Your Roadmap and Your Risks
Part Four · Working Through the Early Weeks
Part Five · Building Strength and Stability
Part Six · Getting Your Life Back
Part Seven · The Mental and Emotional Side
Part Eight · Beyond Recovery
The one deadline in recovery that’s real
From Chapter 9 · Scar Tissue: The Invisible Barrier
Most of what you hear about recovery timelines is soft. Six weeks. Twelve weeks. Listen to your body. Useful, but vague.
The scar tissue window is different. In the weeks after surgery your body lays down collagen to heal the tissue that was cut. Early on that collagen is disorganized and pliable, and it can be shaped by how you move. Somewhere between six and twelve weeks it starts to mature and cross-link, and it becomes far harder to change.
That is a real biological deadline, and almost nobody tells patients about it.
Which is why the patient who plateaus at week seven and waits to see whether it improves on its own is not being patient. They are spending the most valuable weeks they have.
Dr. Andrew Gorecki, PT, DPT
In 2006, a back injury put me through two years of everything wrong with how our system treats pain. Pills, injections, and a hundred-thousand-dollar surgery that didn’t work.
Then a physical therapy school professor found the real problem in one visit: a stiff hip that nobody, in two years, had ever examined. Two weeks after we fixed it, my pain was gone.
I’ve spent my career since making sure my patients don’t have to learn that lesson the way I did.
From people who’ve been exactly where you are
“As a neurosurgeon I was concerned this new right hip and sacroiliac pain was going to be chronic. Both of my therapists were excellent. Now that I’m in my 6th week the pain is gone. Truly impressive.”
— Dr. Ken Louis
“I came to Superior with hip pain. They completely resolved my issues. Even before my final session, I reached my goal of walking 3 miles with minimal pain. They are the best.”
— Fred Page
You should read this book if
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The digital copy tonight
The full PDF lands in your inbox the moment you order. You can start reading before the mail truck has even left.
The printed book in 2 days
A real 178-page paperback, free. It sits on your kitchen counter for the whole twelve weeks, which is exactly where it belongs.
A standing offer
A free 20-minute hip assessment with a Doctor of Physical Therapy. No referral needed in Michigan. Use it or don’t.
Before you order
Is the book actually free?
Yes. Free book, free shipping, free digital edition. No trial, no subscription, no card required. I give it away because a book on your counter does more for your recovery than a brochure in the trash.
Is this just a long advertisement for your clinic?
No. It’s 178 pages of how hip replacement recovery actually works, written so you could follow it without ever calling us. Superior Physical Therapy appears in it because I practice there, and there’s a standing offer at the end. That’s the extent of it.
My surgery hasn’t happened yet. Should I wait?
Read it now. Chapters 1 through 3 are about the decisions you make before surgery, and those decisions shape the recovery you get afterward. The clock on prehab is already running.
I’m four months out and stuck. Is it too late?
No. Chapter 18 was written specifically for people who are further out than they expected to be and still not where they wanted to land.
Do I need a referral to see you?
Not in Michigan. It’s a direct access state, so you can come to us without one, and your insurance including Medicare covers your care either way. Chapter 3 covers this in detail.
What do you do with my address?
We ship you a book. We will not spam, rent, or sell your information, and you will never get a sales call you didn’t ask for.
No cost, no catch.
The book is free, we ship it, and you will never get a sales call you didn’t ask for. If it doesn’t change how you think about your recovery, email me and tell me why. I read every one.
One last thing
Every week I see patients who waited too long to get the right help. They spent months somewhere that didn’t have the time or the approach to get them fully back. They accepted a plateau as permanent. They quietly gave up on the golf, the trails, the garden.
They didn’t have to accept that.
Your hip replacement was supposed to give you your life back. This book is how you make sure it actually does.
Start tonight. The mail can catch up.
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