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After a hip replacement on one side: which effect occours on the height of a person? will you loose height because of this?
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Hip replacement: When you have a hip replacement surgeon make sure that the length of the replacement is such that your legs are equal in length
Answered 4/14/2017
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No: No. Actually an arthritic hip is usually quite a bit shorter than a normal hip. So a hip replacement usually lengthens the leg back to a length that is hopefully near normal.
Answered 12/31/2017
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Leg length changes: With hip replacement, it is possible to change the length of the leg that is being operated on. Typicaly, arthritis causes the affected leg to be shorter than the nonaffected leg. With hip replacement, the affected leg will often be longer than it was preop. Your surgeon will make every effort to make the leg lengths as close as possible. However, there is no 100% accurate way to measure .
Answered 12/31/2017
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