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I am in my 60s and have just restarted rowing after a hip replacement. 50Plus seems like a good fit so I signed up. Thanks for starting the team.

I'd recommend checking out books "arthritis cure", "painfree" and google "mcdougall arthritis only hope". switching to "whole foods plant based diet" has been way better than high dose NSAIDs for me. Thank you for the references! I have been working about a year with diet and exercise to correct bo...

Re: Canes. I haven't tried using just one cane. I much prefer the symmetry of using two. Formerly I often carried a walking stick and even then I found that two worked out better than one. Bob S. Without a cane, my stride is asymmetrical due to my arthritic right hip. With a cane, my symmetry is re...

Chet, you seem to be where I am with your hip. I have been walking with a limp for about two years, but rowing actually seems to help. Also, I have found that if I use a cane when walking, I don't aggravate my hip. I walk about a third of a mile every day from my parking lot to my office over a stee...

Jamesg,

I hope you experience a smooth recovery. My dad certainly benefited from his hip replacement in his seventies.

Thank you jamesg and montanaandy for reporting your personal experiences and for the helpful advice. Based on your information, rowing is not a panacea and I may need to resign myself to surgery sometime in the future. For now, when I walk any distance, I use a cane and this seems to keep me pain-fr...

I am 59 years old and suffer from osteoarthritis of the hip. When I first noticed the chronic pain two years ago, I decided to get serious about my weight and over the last year and a half have gone from 240 pounds to 170 pounds (I am 5' 7" tall). As part of this program I bough an erg. When I was f...