Dr. Gross: It is a reasonable statement. If you want Resurfacing, your chances of success diminish if too much femoral bone is lost with cysts or erosion. Bone density decrease due to inactivity may also be a problem. However, there is usually no extreme urgency; XRs every 6 months to 1 year are a good way to follow a patient who is not yet ready for surgery. None of this applies to stemmed THR.

Dr. Jinnah: You should be able to travel 2 months after surgery if everything goes smoothly, but again itis best to discuss that more thoroughly with your surgeon.

Dr. Gross: No. flying in two months should not be an issue. My patients fly home 3 day after surgery throughout the US.  I generally advise that they can travel after 6 weeks.

Dr. Jinnah: It depends on the nature of your work. You can certainly be doing desk work within a month or so, driving is again very individualized and you have to have control of your leg before you can drive. The usual time is between 4 to 6 weeks. In terms of back to sports, my recommendation is between 6 to 12 months. But again it depends on type of sport you participate in and how well youire doing.

Dr. Gross: You can begin driving in 3-4 days, as soon as you are off narcotics postop.
Desk work is appropriate after 2 weeks.
Walking work: after 6weeks
Heavy labor: 6mnths
Sports 6months

Dr. Jinnah: Arthroscopy can be done in the hip and itis particularly useful for conditions such as a torn labrum or perhaps a surgical dislocation of the hip. Again this depends very much on exactly what your pathology is and itis best discussed with an orthopaedic surgeon.

Dr. Gross: Sometimes. Hip arthroscopy is a newly developing field. I do not perform hip arthroscopy. There are only limited indications for this procedure. In my opinion, too many hip arthroscopies are being done by surgeons with insufficient skill and experience on patients who are not good candidates. The selection process for these procedures is too complex for me to break it down into a simple formula. Instead I will comment on two common scenarios.
a.) Symptomatic CAM FAI in a patient under 40 with little or no degenerative arthritis in the hip joint. Probably is worthwhile, but only in the hands of a select few hip arthroscopists
b.) Mild hip dysplasia (Crowe I) with pain and no significant degenerative arthritis in the hip joint, but with a labral tear:

Very controversial. Removing the labrum may lead to rapid further deterioration of the hip joint. There are two other options to treat this problem. Try a cortisone shot and put up with some pain until the joint deteriorates further, then proceed with Hip Resurfacing. Or, if you are very young (under 40) try arthroscopic labral resection combined with a Periacetabular osteotomy. We need more studies to resolve this question.

Dr. Kreuzer: Hip replacement type surgery has become a very safe operation but there are still complications that can occur which may result in permanent disability. It is because of this that we recommend to wait as long as possible to have a hip surgery done. Personally, I would recommend to proceed with a hip replacement type surgery when Anti-inflammatory medication are no longer effective and when you spend most of your day thinking about your hip or when your wife/husand is tired of putting on your socks.

Dr. Jinnah: Depends on how young you are. Certainly if you think you can get 5 or 10 years by living with the pain it would be worth delaying the surgery, but whether itis worth it to delay it for a year or 2 is somewhat controversial. I think this is something you need to discuss with your orthopaedic surgeon.