Currently, no uniform clinical guidelines exist for returning to yoga following hip surgery. While we have previously quantified hip angles during yoga poses thought to stress the hip in healthy individuals, it is unclear whether patients who have undergone total hip arthroplasty (THA) and regularly practice yoga achieve similar joint angles during these poses. Thus, the overall objective of this proposal is to quantify lower limb joint angles during these poses in individuals post-THA who regularly practice yoga and age- and sex-matched controls without THA. The secondary objective is to investigate factors that may affect hip motion post-THA (e.g., pain, implant design).

Collaborators: Simon Mears, MD, PhD