Re: RC: hip-replacement surgery

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In a message dated 9/21/00 6:50:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jfhr@inetworld.net writes:

<<   Hi there, I have a friend that rides and is a trainer and is to have 
hip-replacement surgery on the 18th of Oct. Her Dr. has said "no horseback 
riding" ever again. She is now considering alternative posibilites as riding 
and training are her livelyhood. Have any of you had this surgery and what 
have your results been? My friend is not on-line but I will print out all 
your responses for her.  >>

Haven't had to have the surgery myself, but darn sure know others who have, 
and who have ridden pain-free for the first time in a long time afterward.  
One was my dad's old hunting partner--several years ago--who was so crippled 
that he literally could no longer ride--and he pulled many a pack string and 
rode an awful lot of miles for about 10 years afterward, until other systems 
became limiting factors.

Heidi