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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Who this is for
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.
The gap
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.
That is the gap this book fills. 178 pages of what should have come home with you.
What's inside
Here's a piece of what you get.
How the book works
Three stages, eight parts, twenty chapters. Read it front to back or jump straight to where you are.
The decisions you make before surgery determine the recovery you have after it. Prehab, surgical approach, and the one choice almost nobody makes deliberately.
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.
Staying strong for life. What long-term hip health actually takes once formal rehab ends.
Table of contents
Twenty chapters across eight parts. The full contents page is in the book.
No cost, no catch
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Straight answers
Yes, including shipping. We wrote it because most people in Northern Michigan going through this get almost no guidance after discharge, and because a portion of the people who read it eventually come and see us. That's the whole model.
It's the best possible timing. Part One is entirely about the weeks before surgery, and prehab measurably changes where you land at week six.
No. The scar tissue window has closed, which makes some things harder, but harder is not impossible. Chapter 7 explains what changes and what to do about it.
Not in Michigan. Direct access means you can book a physical therapy evaluation without going back through a physician first.
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The digital copy is in your inbox within the hour. Read chapter 7 first if you're already past surgery.