Local patient with 2 total hip replacements finishes 104mi bike ride
June 19, 2014
Severe arthritis in both hips left 65-year-old avid hiker and biker Barbara Slott with limited mobility, forcing her to stop riding.
“The high activity level I’ve sustained over the years had resulted in a lot of wear and tear on my hip joints,” Slott says. “It got to the point where I was in near-constant pain. I couldn’t walk, and I certainly couldn’t bike or play with my grandchildren like I wanted to.”
Thankfully, following two successful anterior hip replacements with Dr. A. Kirk Reichard, hip surgeon at Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists, Slott has returned to the saddle, recently completing the 104-mile Reach the Beach bike ride from Beaverton, OR, to Pacific City, OR.
“The recovery was incredibly easy,” Slott says. “I just walked a bit further each day, and now I can do anything I want to do.”
Slott says she’ll participate in Reach the Beach again in 2015 as well as Le Tour de Koocanusa, an 83-mile lake ride in Montana, this August.
The anterior hip replacement technique Dr. Reichard used for Slott is a minimally invasive alternative approach to traditional total hip replacement.
“Using this technique, I’m able to access a patient’s hip joint without disrupting his or her surrounding muscles and soft tissues,” Dr. Reichard says. “This provides patients with quicker recoveries, shorter hospital stays and less pain than a traditional total hip replacement.”
For more information regarding anterior hip replacement, please call Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists at (509) 344-2663.
Committed to providing exceptional specialty bone, joint and muscle care through 27 highly trained doctors, Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists has remained the leader in orthopaedic care in the Pacific Northwest for more than 50 years. The doctors and staff of Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists pride themselves on continuously delivering compassionate, individualized care to each and every patient for the treatment of back and neck, shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist, hip, knee, foot and ankle, sports medicine, joint replacement and revision, interventional pain management and trauma and fracture care. For more information on Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists and its doctors, visit www.nworthospecialists.com, “like” Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists on Facebook and follow @NWOrthopaedics on Twitter.
