This is the first time I have ever done a blog so please bear with me if I start rambling on.
It all started when I was around age 19 just out of high school I started having pain in my hips sometimes the pain would shoot up my back and down my legs, but since I was so active at the time I attributed it to a pulled muscle/strain and kept on trucking on. I was very active in high school I was a cheerleader and also a swimmer!!!! I worked out religiously as well and tried my hardest to stay in shape. After graduating high school in 2001 I still stayed active in coaching at ACX for a summer with summer camps. I also tried to do the open team the following year and that is when the pain really started in my hips. We were doing toe touch backhandsprings and suddenly I felt myself not able to do toe touches as well as before. I had to drop off the team due to this, from that point forward my hip would click and pop every now and then and after popping (sort of like you do your knuckle) it would feel better for a few hours then need to be popped again. I sort of just dealt with it thinking nothing of it. As the years seemed to fly by the pain kept getting significantly worse year by year. In January of 2009 I got a new job with Health insurance benefits I decided that it was time to finally find out what was going on in my hip.
Fast forward to May 1, 2009
I scheduled my appt months in advance because my insurance was effective April 23,2009.
My mother recently just had both of her hips done she had hip resurfacing on both and has done tremendously well!!!!
I scheduled my appointment with her Dr. Dr. Thomas Gross in Columbia SC at Midlands Orthopaedics.
I was nervous but was hoping that he was just gonna say its arthirits or bursitis and give me some anit inflammatories/cortisone shot and send me on my merry way.
As I arrived at the office did paperwork and insurance stuff etc.
I sat in the waiting room for around 45 minutes
I had already had my X-ray's done and had them with me for him to look at.
I was called back by his nurse and she set me up with a survey all about what made my pain worse, what type of pain etc.
After answering these questions Dr. Gross came in and did a ROM exam on me
needless to say I was in tears after this from all the pushing and pulling etc.
He pulled my xrays up on the computer screen, and then the bad news began
He stated I had bi-lateral hip dysplasia and was most likely born with it (my mother had the same thing)
and then after that he pretty much was blunt with me and stated surgery is the only way to correct the problem.
I BURST out into tears thank God my mother was there to comfort me
and she knew the emotions that I was feeling as she had to have surgery on her hips as well.
he stated they would like to try a different surgery on me since I am so young they didnt want to do THR or Resurfacing because putting artifical parts in my body at such a young age is not practical.
Thats when we started discussing the Ganz Osteotomy or Peri Acetabular Osteotomy, he told me that he doesnt specialize in this surgery however his partner Dr. Frederick Piehl in the same practice does since he is a pediatric Ortho surgeon.
Dr. Gross took more xrays of my hips in some pretty weird and painful positions so that at my next appt with Dr. Piehl he would have a better look
he also wrote orders for an MRI and a CTSCAN.
As I left the office full of emotion and just utter shock I tried to stay positive
my next appt was May 29th.
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