Christine -- hips query

Body: 

Hi Christine,

I just got the latest WW email update (good thoughts for Lanny!). I sincerely hope to join a WW practitioner class once my little ones are not so little! Anyway, I was wondering if you will be addressing MAKO-plasty and anterior approach to hip replacement in you hip research? (These are hot topics in my heavily orthopaedic neck of the woods . . . .)

Thanks!
bad_mirror

Forum:

Hi Bad_Mirror

No, we didn't cover this. It sounds like wonderful technology to take the human error out of placement of replacement acetabulum and femoral head.

If manual error were the main problem with these procedures i am sure that MAKO would have it licked. Sadly, this surgery destroys completely the very ligament capsule that keeps the femoral head locked into the acetabulum. It also makes the joint itself carry the full load of the body. The hip joint surfaces are not designed to transfer the weight of the body directly from pelvis to legs via the surfaces of the acetabulum and femoral head.

How the hip joint works, and how it breaks down, and how to prevent this, and treat it, is the subject of Christine's book. She will explain it herself when she is ready to. The existing Practitioners and the current students have done the training that is based on the book. It is really excitingwhat Christine has put together.

Just stand tall in WW posture and be patient for now, if you have hip problems, ladies.

Same old voodoo, BadMirror...the story I am about to tell is far more shocking than even the gyno-prolapse one.

We would be beyond honored to have you join us as a WW Practitioner! Granolamom has expressed interest as well - it would be a dream!! Btw, we have such a wonderful class this year - brilliant PT, midwives and a yogi!

Thanks, Louise for the wonderful post. Keep breathing everyone, and know there is no substitute for your native hips.

Christine

I so wish I could be a part of that Christine! Like bad mirror, I am waiting for my littles to be not so little...
And breathing tall in my WW posture has done wonders for my native, formerly arthritic, hips. I was told I would need new hips by the time I was 40, I turned 40 this year and my hips haven't felt this good since I was 10.