Adil Mjadli (DAST candidate)  See Adil's update below at one month post op now
3/27/09 Dr. Edwin Su

DAST International has selected it’s fourth candidate to receive financial assistance with hip resurfacing surgery with Dr. Edwin Su at the Hospital for Special Surgery.  27 year old Adil Mjadli from Orlando Florida is scheduled for surgery on March 27, 2009.

I always remembered the “shoes with the bar” that I wore to bed as a kid. I had no idea why I had to wear them, what I did know is that as soon as my parents went to bed, I would untie them and take them off. I grew up remembering the shoes, but with no real health issues, I didn’t ask questions as to why I wore them. As a kid I could never sit “criss cross applesauce”, but I had agility and strength abound – so I left the shoes behind me as a distant memory, never to be brought up again.

Hip Resurfacing: Personal Experience
Ann’s LBHR surgery with Dr. Koen DeSmet, July 3, 2007
October 21, 2008

Diagnosed and Treated for Dysplasia as a Toddler
In 1968, when I was two years old, I was diagnosed as having dysplasia of the left hip (also known as congenital hip dislocation). The joint had not developed properly and the femur was dislocated. I walked with a limp. My parents took me to a leading orthopedic surgeon at the University of Chicago Medical Hospitals.  The doctor originally planned to put me in traction for about a week, after which he would perform open surgery to place the femur in an abducted position, and then cast it in plaster. He expected I would be in a series of body casts for two years, changed every six months.

Excerpt from Anne’s Blog
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

4. Top Docs
On Sunday afternoon, March 19, 2000, a new yahoo group appeared with a question mark: Surface Hippies?

The first posting reads: "Hello out there! My name is David. I am 46 years old, with a wife and three small children (6, 4, and 9 months). I am three weeks and two days post-op...."

I am a mother of four children and grandmother to eight.  I always loved having my family near and celebrating the holidays, birthdays and summers with family members around.  My husband and I would travel to Orlando, Florida in the winter so that they family could join us there to visit Disney World.  My arthritis became so bad that I could not join in the fun and was always looking for some place to sit.  We used to travel out west and hike the canyons of Utah and Colorado and that had to come to a stop.  My life was put on hold and I was only 56 years old.  Before my hips gave out on me, I felt like I was 39 years old.  I am a great lover of gardening and that was impossible because I could not stand or bend for any length of time.  

Ben found me on my Surface Hippy Myspace page and emailed me, the rest, as they say.....is history.

I'm a Surface Hippy Now!

I was twelve years old when I first learned that I had hip problems. I’m now coming around the corner on thirty-two. That’s twenty years of pain and restrictions. A twenty year long chapter of life that is finally coming to an end!

At age twelve I took a fall on my left hip. I had no pain, but a few days later I found out that I couldn’t get up into a run. Three months of doctors visits finally led to a diagnosis of a Slipped Epiphysis. The growth plate on top of my left femoral head was sliding off. Surgery was scheduled to pin it up, and one year later I had surgery to remove the pins.

Colleen Hennessy  (DAST Candidate)
4/15/08 Dr. Koen De Smet

I returned to the USA in August, 2007, after a 27 month Peace Corps assignment in the rain forest on a mountaintop in Honduras. My little village had rough, rocky roads, and with an aching hip, it was sometimes quite a struggle to hike the half mile uphill to my house. On three different occasions, I fell and cut my knees. My hip was getting worse but I said nothing to the Peace Corps Medical Unit. You were sent home permanently and your service as a volunteer was abruptly ended if you had a problem like a hip that required surgery. I loved my time in Honduras, the people, the orchids, butterflies and the opportunity to spend 2+ years away from the fast pace of the USA. So I put up with the pain. I would admit it at the end of my service.

Here is my HIPPY story………

I am 55, female, single, live in Denver CO, healthy, and have Kaiser insurance. Two winters ago, 2007, I slipped on the ice in front of my home and landed on my right side.  No big deal at the time as I got up and continued on my way.  But over time I started having trouble with that right hip.  And by trouble I mean it started to ache and the range of motion started to reduce.

My Story

When I was 12 I encountered Osteomylitis. This is a nasty infection of the bone marrow. It first occurred in the upper left hip but over the next 6 yrs occurred in both wrists and migrated to occur in the muscles of both hips, my back and finally settled into the bone of my left pelvis beside my hip joint. In the end the OS fused the hip joint in an effort to stop the osteomylitis being a problem.

The osteomylitis infections stopped but left me with no left hip. That means that one cannot sit in a chair normally, cars are difficult to get into and out of, small spaces such as aero plane seats are a nightmare etc. Constant pressure is then put on the spine and knees to work to replace the hip joint.

Jared Manders (please scroll to the bottom for recent updates and a photo of Jared with the President of the Unted States, Obama!)

Sun 12/7/2008 6:22 PM

Well Its 2:50 AM as in THE MORNING WHEN NO ONE IS AWAKE, even Possibly alive!
My fellow hipster wrote me and commented how exciting this is.
Exciting my ass...
I am up at the wrong times now and cant sleep. 

Letters from Brussels.  Part 1- Manders- Live

Reaching out to spread the word.

Jessie found me on my Surface Hippy Myspace page

Here was the first message I received from Jessie on myspace on Apr 26, 2008 10:59 AM:

I am so glad to have come across your page. I am a 33 yr old female who had Juvenile Rheumatoid arthritis and the damage in my hips left me without any cartilage in my right hip and very little in the left. I have been to many doctors hoping for a better alternative and solution than replacing the hip and I get the same answer over and over. I will need a THR. I put it off for years now and I am always looking on the internet for some answers but when I woke up today barely able to walk I got back on the net and searched myspace and found your page. I am going to take a look into this and hope that it is something that is possible for me. I am only 33 and I would like to have somewhat of a normal life and able to do normal everyday things without pain. I could never cross my legs that is something i just learned to accept as thing i can not do. Thank you. BTW 50 yrs old I would never believe it. You look my age for real.

Jessie

First BHR Done With Direct Anterior

Warning - Photos below are very graphic and of real surgery!

11/14/08 Update

I spoke to Jim and he is doing fantastic, flying all over the world and keeping busy.

14 year old Protrusio, Bilateral Hip Resurfacing
Dr Jim Powell
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

In Kaibree's own words:

As far as I can tell, I was a perfectly normal pre-teen. I loved hanging out with my friends, playing sports and bugging my older brother. Needless to say, I never expected anything like this to happen to me.

My story begins in November 2005 when I was thirteen years old. For quite a few months I had been complaining of stiff hips at dance class; my mother advised me to stretch more. Then one day, only a month after my thirteenth birthday, I was playing in a volleyball game and felt a sudden pain in my hip which I had never felt before. Concerned, my mom took me to my family doctor. They took several x-rays, and my doctor was shocked by the results. It was obvious my hips weren’t completely normal, that there was something different about them.

And I mean to tell the hip group -- which I haven't been on for maybe a year -- that I did a cartwheel last weekend!

The Long Journey

"I thought I pulled a muscle like usual..."

Posted on August 15, 2010 

Well, It's about time I reported in, been so damn busy! I had my left hip resurfaced by Dr. Rogerson on Monday, August 2nd in Madison Wisconsin. Tomorrow I'll be 2 weeks out. This was my 2nd hip. Dr. Bose did the first on 2/12/07 in Chennai India. The main reason I didnt go back to India and Dr. Bose, was financial. I'm on Medicare now and my income has been decimated by the ongoing recession (depression). I chose Dr. Rogerson for many reasons. He takes Medicare and AARP. He's done over 500 resurfacings with only a couple of problems that he is not afraid to