Hip-replacement technique gets patients back on their feet sooner
TORONTO — Tim Heenan was in his teens when he injured his left hip in a four-metre fall while goofing around with some buddies. When his school hockey coach saw him favouring his leg before practice soon after, he said: “Just wait until you’re older.”
They turned out to be prophetic words.
Now 60, the construction worker from Innisfil, Ont., found the pain in his hip growing increasingly worse, especially in the last year.
“It was very difficult to get up and down a flight of stairs, up and down ladders,” said Heenan, a married father of four and an avid sports enthusiast.