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Wed, May 4, 11 at 19:37
| DH (age 74, tomorrow) is still playing tennis and he's part of a very large group of what I call the "geezer players". There is a fellow who has a data base of about 1,000 players in the Bay Area. He schedules the players three times a week.
Yesterday, DH received a S.O.S. email saying that one of the members needed a hip replacement and he wanted to know if anyone had info in how to resume tennis after a hip replacement.
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Follow-Up Postings:
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- Posted by endorphinjunkie z7bAlabama (My Page) on Wed, May 4, 11 at 20:59
| Passion is how some of us get through life. Just sayin'. |
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| I had a hip replaced last Aug. I wouldnt try tennis or sking or running EVER AGAIN. All are high on the list of risks for dislocating the new joint Too much pain and too long of a recovery time to risk going through the surgery again due to dislocation. |
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- Posted by agnespuffin (My Page) on Thu, May 5, 11 at 1:32
| It's wonderful that he is thinking about playing afterwards, but I have a feeling that once it's done, he's going to see the wisdom of getting his exercise in just watching the others play. He may the one in a million that could breeze through the whole thing. Let's hope he's smart enough to take it easy. |
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- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Thu, May 5, 11 at 17:46
| It would be interesting to be able to follow his recovery but we don't know him and hubby never played tennis with him. I wish him the best of luck and I hope he will hear that satisfying "twak" when the ball hits the sweet spot. BTW, we have a friend who is 94 yo and he plays tennis every day. |
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