Hip replacement and running

Wow, I can't believe you would even CONSIDER jogging/running after a hip replacement. Surely your doctor gave you info about what is acceptable activitiy. From the ortho/info site:

Other Activities
Walk as much as you like once your doctor gives you the go-ahead, but remember that walking is no substitute for your prescribed exercises. Walking with a pair of trekking poles is helpful and adds as much as 40% to the exercise you get when you walk.

Swimming is also recommended; you can begin as soon as the sutures have been removed and the wound is healed, approximately 6 to 8 weeks after surgery. Using a pair of training fins may make swimming a more enjoyable and effective exercise.

Acceptable activities include dancing, golfing (with spikeless shoes and a cart), and bicycling (on level surfaces).

Avoid activities that involve impact stress on the joint (such as tennis and badminton), contact sports (such as football and baseball), squash or racquetball, jumping, or jogging.

Lifting weights is not a problem, but carrying heavy, awkward objects that cause you to stagger is not advised, especially if you must go up and down stairs or slopes. Plan ahead to have a cart, dolly, or hand-truck available
mike

Cycle. Not running without specific permission from the surgeon. Also, 12 years is an eternity in hip replacement. Be careful about reading on the internet and then going and doing. I know people with hip replacements who play tennis. But those are recently replacements. Surgical technique and hip technology has changed much in the past few years, as I understand it.. Not so long ago, they recommended no more athletics.
Good luck.

As long as you build up to it I wouldn't see a problem to be honest, but don't strain yourself.
It also depends on what sort of replacement you have had because I know a lot that have been over exerted can "pop out"
Ask your doctor, or even a physiotherapist for advice on how to maximise your exercise.

You should know yourself within your body if you are straining too hard and just work up to it.
After 12 years your hip replacement should be fused with the other tissues within your body and should be pretty secure.

Your still pretty young and when getting a joint replaced exercise is actually really beneficial for it

Good Luck!!

A friend of my in the weight room had his hip replaced a year ago and received the green light to resume his running from the surgeon. BUT~ I agree with every one else here. Check with your Dr. before you try anything. Everyone's situation is different and the Dr. would be the one to know your personal particulars. Please, check with your Dr. before trying anything new.

I had both my hips replaced last year.

I asked my surgeon during a check up last month if I could start jogging.

It was a most emphatic NO.

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anyone?

Late to the thread but I'll leave a reply for other readers.
I'm three weeks postop on my THR and am looking forward to returning to running. Like so many people here on MFP, I was obese (though only for a few years, fortunately) and lost quite a bit of weight. I lost my weight through an aggressive diet, one that was supposed to cause me all sorts of maladies. None of the naysayers were right - post weight loss, my health was superb. Excellent blood chemistry, no loose skin, good muscle tone, etc. which was pretty much the opposite of what was supposed to happen to a 6' 1" 295 pound male who lost 120 pounds in 7 months by eating 800 to 1000 calories per day.
The reason I undertook that diet was because I spent quite a bit of time doing research and I was comfortable with what I learned.
About 14 months ago, I noticed that I had to consciously lift my right foot to get my running shoe off. I didn't seek medical advice until I had pain on the top of my right glute. When I saw my internist, I truly thought I would go through a course of physiotherapy and be back on track. The good doctor told me to get a hip X ray "just to rule out arthritis" and, lo and behold, I was diagnosed with mild to moderate osteoarthritis of the right hip. The causal factors were, primary, moderate dysplasia of the right hip and, second, a history of obesity.
I was floored. I had been an athlete even after college and was in the 82nd Airborne. Even when I was overweight, I enjoyed hiking in the Rockies and here in the mountains of SoCal.
I really thought that was all over. Thanks to medication, I was able to walk OK but a hip replacement was definitely in the works.
Just like I did with weight loss, I spent a fair amount of time doing research. A rough estimate is that I spent at least 80 hours, poring over documents from a variety of sources including NCBI and ortho journals in the US, the UK, and Australia. All told, I interviewed seven doctors and/or surgeons.
One of the key questions was "would I be able to return to running". Most of them said "No". When I asked them why, they told me that running could prematurely wear our the prosthesis.
One of my responses was "I'm not a heel striker. When I started running, was actually landing on my forefoot so I had to learn to land on my mid foot. Given the different impact transient for a midfooter, shouldn't that make a difference?"
Not one of them had any idea about what I was talking about. None of them had had training in kinesiology as it pertains to running.
I'm not knocking those docs, at all. They're great at repairing damaged bones but that doesn't mean that they fully understand why they're making their recommendations.
What I found "in the data" was that there just isn't much data and the little data that's there shows that there is no perceptible difference in outcomes at the 5 and 10 year marks, which were the limits of the studies.
Think about that for a minute - the most recent study was 2013 so the newest hips were from 2008 which means those hips were designed in 2005±. The newest hips were designed a decade ago! Some of the older studies had hips that were implanted in the 90's - a full 20 years ago.

The reason for that lack of data is pretty simple. Runners tend to be healthier than most people and since obesity is the most common cause of arthritis (which is the most common reason why hips need to be replaced) there simply aren't that many people who are involved in running who end up needing hips.

Over the course of the time I was learning and shopping for a surgeon, I decided to have an anterior THR and I found a surgeon whose background appealed to me. First off, he was young. Second, he was not a med student during undergrad - he was an economics major. My thinking about a young doc was that he/she wouldn't be in the "same old, same old" mindset. And I liked the idea of a not-med student because, as the grandson of a doctor, as well as my fiancee being the daughter of a doctor, my thinking was that he/she would have better people skills.

When I interviewed Dr. Park, I asked him about running and he said that he had "concerns". A discussion followed and he explained to me that he wasn't concerned about wearing out the prosthesis. Instead his concern was about "micro separations" that might occur because, as the foot lifts off the ground, the head of the prosthesis will tend to separate from the socket. He did agree with me that there was very little data about the whole issue so it's not something that he rules out.
I accept that Dr. Park could have realized that I was going to start running again regardless of what he said so he was just going along with me but I didn't get that vibe from him. Over the course of my meetings with him, I've found him to be open and honest with me. He admitted that he's had three dislocations and that one of them was because he installed the prosthesis incorrectly. Think about that - a surgeon admitting that he made a mistake that caused a patient to dislocate! I respect honesty.
Anyway, back to your issue.
Doctors have a reputation for holding themselves in very high esteem and, frankly, I just don't buy into it. They have a lot of knowledge and a lot of responsibility but, don't tell them this, but they're not all knowing and all seeing. In addition, docs have a track record and it's much easier to tell someone "no running" than it is to have someone go out running, step off a curb, and dislocate their hip.
As a technologist I also realize that it's complete folly to worry that I might take 5 years off the life expectancy of my hip. Think about the technology changes that we've seen in the past 20 years - the rate of change will only increase! A big driver there will be market forces. With 600,000 hip replacements being done in this country (2014) and with more baby boomers getting new hips, we will continue to see more improvements in all areas of medical technology.
I'm certainly not telling you to go out and run and you would be unwise to take my advice blindly. What you might want to try is to ask the surgeon why you shouldn't run and then, ask for citations. The mark of a scientist is a willingness to argue their theory - if they won't show you the data, walk out the door. You are the customer and there are plenty of good doctors doing THR's.