Logically from what I observed of the operation some real soreness would be expected. Hopefully the pain meds cover it well enough.


They used to drive the pin end down into the marrow area of the bone and still do I imagine. I wondered what precautions they used to insure the length of the leg remained the same at the time.


Any form of a scan of the bone might give them the size in diameter of the shank portion to order I suppose. A point of expected stoppage of the driven taper portion. Into the known diameter of the marrow area of the bone. Also some alignment provision has to be made to not give you a toe in or out so to speak. With that leg.


The great thing is hip joint replacements seem in general to work out well.