To protect your hip, you must learn safe ways to do daily tasks. This includes getting dressed and undressed. Your healthcare provider may suggest tools to help you. These include a reacher, sock aid, and dressing stick.
Caution
Be careful not to bend forward or lift your knee above your hip.
Putting on socks
Sit on a chair or on the side of the bed.
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Pull the sock onto the sock aid as you have been shown.
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Hold the sock in front of the foot on your operated side. Slip your foot into the sock. Pull the sock aid out of the sock.
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Put the other sock on with the sock aid, or bring your foot toward you and slip the sock on with your hands.
Putting on pants
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Sit on a chair or the side of the bed.
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Using a reacher, catch the waist of the underwear or pants with the grasper.
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Slip the pants onto your operated leg first. Then slip your other leg into the pants.
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Use the reacher to pull the pants over your feet and above your knee. Pull them to where you can reach them with your hands.
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Hold the pants with one hand. Push up from the chair to stand. Steady yourself with your walker.
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With your hands, pull the pants the rest of the way up.
Putting on shoes
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Wear slip-on shoes or use elastic or Velcro shoelaces so you don’t have to bend.
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Sit on a chair. Put your foot into the shoe. Use a reacher or long-handled shoehorn to pull the shoe on.
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