Image via CrunchBaseBaukje Cohen had been accustomed, at age 76, to jogging in a park near her Manhattan apartment, playing tennis and skiing. But she developed pain in her hip, and “slowly and surely it became worse and more difficult to handle,” she said in an interview. She had to give up running and tennis.
Missing her athletic life, she opted for hip replacement surgery at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases. After about 10 days, spent in the hospital and then at a rehab facility, “I was walking very well,” she said. “It was not terribly painful.” She returned to jogging paths, tennis courts and mountainsides — until recently, when her other hip began to trouble her. Her surgeon will try a series of injections to relieve the pain, but if they don’t work, Mrs. Cohen, now 82, has decided to undergo a second hip replacement.
Laimonias Betins, a retired construction worker in Ocean County, N.J., had a drastically different experience after two simultaneous knee replacements at age 89. “His primary care physician said he didn’t recommend it — my father had heart disease and hypertension and diabetes that put him at greater risk,” said Mr. Betins’s daughter, Ilze Earner. “So he went doctor-shopping, saw three or four surgeons until he found one willing to do it.”
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