📡 Update: "Coach Saban underwent successful robotic assisted right hip replacement surgery"

[EasyTider]

 

[pop2]

After having both knees replaced within 5 months.....at 65 years old.... I am amazed at the problems I am hearing other people had. I climbed stairs the day after and was walking normally within 3 weeks of rehab....which I worked my butt off in. Maybe you need to come to Elite Sports in Nashville to get knees done.

 

[planomateo]

My oldest has a slight hip labrum tear, they told her it would be 5-6 month recovery, 1-2 months of crutches with no activity.

 

[bamachine]

After having both knees replaced within 5 months.....at 65 years old.... I am amazed at the problems I am hearing other people had. I climbed stairs the day after and was walking normally within 3 weeks of rehab....which I worked my butt off in. Maybe you need to come to Elite Sports in Nashville to get knees done.

Most of how well someone does with either a knee or hip replacement, depends on how hard they work in rehab after. So I think Saban should be OK on that front.

My oldest has a slight hip labrum tear, they told her it would be 5-6 month recovery, 1-2 months of crutches with no activity.

Muscle and ligament tears are so much more involved than actual joint replacement. A lot more healing to do.

 

[ElephantStomp]

I tore my hip labrum the first time I attended the academy and from tear to heal was 13 months. Absolute worse damn thing I’ve been through

 

[TerryP]

Most of how well someone does with either a knee or hip replacement, depends on how hard they work in rehab after

But a hip replacement, according to that article above, only taking as little as 3-4 weeks before he's walking around fairly normal again? That's crazy.

As I've been reading about the surgery over the last few days I've learned there's more than one way to do the procedule: anterior and posterior. It's my understanding Saban is having the anterior procedure Monday and I've read accounts with people having the same and walking without pain in a matter of a few days...the majority mention walking on day one. The posterior method leads to a much longer recovery period.

 

[bamachine]

As I've been reading about the surgery over the last few days I've learned there's more than one way to do the procedule: anterior and posterior. It's my understanding Saban is having the anterior procedure Monday and I've read accounts with people having the same and walking without pain in a matter of a few days...the majority mention walking on day one. The posterior method leads to a much longer recovery period.

Because to do it via posterior, they have to go through the glutes, which adds to the healing time. Going in through the front, very little muscle disruption.

 

[TerryP]

Because to do it via posterior, they have to go through the glutes, which adds to the healing time

Perhaps I misread the articles that left me with the impression the biggest difference was going through the muscle versus removing and reattaching the muscles. Dunno. @rammerjammer

 

[planomateo]

 

[bamachine]

Perhaps I misread the articles that left me with the impression the biggest difference was going through the muscle versus removing and reattaching the muscles. Dunno. @rammerjammer

That is the thing. In the front, the muscle fibers run in one direction, top to bottom, so they can separate them and do their work,then naturally let them close back up around it after the surgery. In the glutes, you have multiple layers, one layer goes side to side, the layer underneath goes up and down. That means the top layer must be detached and then sewn back in place, so that needs to mend before you do anything that might rip it back open.

Of course, all of this is not from someone who has studied orthopedic surgery, just someone who recalls the actual anatomy of the body, from when I briefly thought about becoming a Dr.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Nnnewp.

Uh-uhhhhh.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

One of my employees who is just a few years younger than CNS, had anterior replacement. He walked into his house following outpatient surgery. He was back on the job at the end of 3 weeks off.

 

[BamaFan334]

Holy shit. That looks painful and like it will take a wife under the knife. Simply amazing the science we have to be able to perform something like this. I see why this takes a while to recover from.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Mrs Terry...."Nick will be able to run the vacuum cleaner within two weeks"

 

[planomateo]

 

[PurlJam]

We make the super alloy powder they use to make the stainless hip and knee replacements, amongst other things, where I work... I'm gonna give him a 30 year warranty.

 

[#80]

You know he hates not being able to attend the draft.

 

[OldPlayer]

You know he hates not being able to attend the draft.

Who says he won't?

 

[TUSKtimes]

We could call him the "Six Million Dollar Man," but that would be an insult.

 

[Bama Guy]