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>> To have gone through the surgery and to be able to walk back up the stairs and come
into the studio, it's like coming home. But it's also like starting over. And you just
feel gratitude.
>> (singing) She says a love like this [music] She says a love like this ooh [music] 'Cause
love don't come round much and it should not be missed.
>> I started dancing when I was six. I love to dance but I love watching dance too. I
think that's what brought me to train so many dancers is so I get to watch them.
>> (singing) Oh, but I don't care yeah.
>> I had no idea what was wrong with me. I turned 50 and five days I couldn't walk right.
It was surgery or a wheelchair.
>> (singing) And she wants her morning breakfast.
>> Congratulations you have the heart of a 30-year-old and the hips of an 80-year-old.
My doctor said, "Actually, your left hip looks worse than your right one." I'm like, "Can
you do 'em both at the same time?"
>> The anterolateral hip replacement allows less pain, faster recovery and fewer rules.
There's an empty V between two muscles that your hip sits in. And the hip can be replaced
through this empty V without dividing muscles, or ligaments, or tendons. The day of surgery,
patients will get out of bed, on their own, walk, full weight-bearing, with a walker.
By the next day, they'll be independent, walking on their own, on no more than pain medicine
by mouth, and there's no need to be in the hospital. They want to go home.
>> With the posterior approach, there's a curvilinear incision where we go through muscle
groups. Typically, we see more pain with this approach, longer hospital stays and there
are restrictions.
>> At Maine Medical Center we do about 900 hip replacements a year. And we do that for
a reason. People come here because word of mouth says this is the place to be. People
have come, at present, from 23 states and three countries, to have us do hip replacement
at Maine Medical Center.
>> So with each case, we custom place the cup.
>> We have some of the lowest complication rates in the country. The dislocation rates
that we've seen are less than .5 percent.
>> The infection rate has been very low and we have a revision rate is very, very low
which tell you we're not comprimising long-term results for short-term gain.
>> I don't think you can get a better hip replacement in the United States.
>> So this is what you think of as a traditional split, which is used as a stretch for warming
up. But then you can also do it this way too. I don't know; it's been two years and I'm
already forgetting what I couldn't do in the year I couldn't walk.
>> [singing]
>> You're so happy that there's no pain. You know, it's like when you wake up and they
say, "What's your pain level?" And you're like, "What are you talking about?" "Well,
what's your pain level?" "The pain is gone. The pain left with the surgery; there's no
pain."
>> (singing) Well she says I can't give her that.
>> My mother likes to say that she saw me learn to walk twice. I was dancing again within
a couple of months, and I was teaching again after three months, and within a year, nobody
could tell. I just was so lucky that the hospital was here in Maine and could give me my career
back and give me my life back.
>> (singing) I know, I, I can.