THR, Trochanteric bursitis and abduction ex's!

[alophysio]

i agree with sharileedahl above.

I think i read some research somewhere that said that hip ABD is primarily TFL and the glut med is only involved very briefly in initiation etc.

Never seen troc bursitits either in my patients but don't see loads of 'em. Functional exercises and keeping the hip centred in the socket is what i aim for (observed by watching knee control as outlined above).

[morwenna]

Thanks for your input guys.

I'm really not sure there's any problem at all with the exercises we've been doing. Everybody in the world as far as I can see has abd in standing and in lying as routine post-op exercises. It's just that this guy who seems to have the ear of the doctors and authorities in this establishment is insisting that it is his experience!

I do see up to 40-50 patients a day here, and we encounter lateral hip pain fairly regularly ..... I think I'm going to keep my own data on this, and then maybe I can come up with a counter-argument.