115,000 Miles and Counting: Extraordinary Athletic Activity After a Historic Total HipArthroplasty with 39-year Follow-up

We present an 81-year-old male who underwent a direct anterior approach total hip arthroplasty (THA) with a ceramic-on-ceramic bearing in 1986. Amazingly, the patient kept meticulous logbooks of his many athletic endeavors, which were tallied after 35 years in 2020. These included 20,797 miles of ru...

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Main Authors: Marguerite L. Gilmore, BA, Ansab Khwaja, MD, Daniel H. Wiznia, MD, Lee E. Rubin, MD
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Published: Elsevier 2025-06-01
Series:Arthroplasty Today
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352344125000986
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author Marguerite L. Gilmore, BA
Ansab Khwaja, MD
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Lee E. Rubin, MD
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description We present an 81-year-old male who underwent a direct anterior approach total hip arthroplasty (THA) with a ceramic-on-ceramic bearing in 1986. Amazingly, the patient kept meticulous logbooks of his many athletic endeavors, which were tallied after 35 years in 2020. These included 20,797 miles of running, 2323 miles of swimming, 66,349 miles of bicycling, and at least 25,500 miles of walking, amounting to more than 114,969 miles of physical activity. As the average age of patients who undergo index THA decreases, the debate regarding physical activity recommendations after THA has become increasingly relevant for patients, but this topic is inadequately studied and thus remains an unanswered question.
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spelling doaj-art-128662db4d39453994ffad20a3a4e5e42025-08-20T03:24:07ZengElsevierArthroplasty Today2352-34412025-06-013310171110.1016/j.artd.2025.101711115,000 Miles and Counting: Extraordinary Athletic Activity After a Historic Total HipArthroplasty with 39-year Follow-upMarguerite L. Gilmore, BA0Ansab Khwaja, MD1Daniel H. Wiznia, MD2Lee E. Rubin, MD3Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USADepartment of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USADepartment of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USACorresponding author. Yale School of Medicine, Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, 47 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. Tel.: +1 203 737 4477.; Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USAWe present an 81-year-old male who underwent a direct anterior approach total hip arthroplasty (THA) with a ceramic-on-ceramic bearing in 1986. Amazingly, the patient kept meticulous logbooks of his many athletic endeavors, which were tallied after 35 years in 2020. These included 20,797 miles of running, 2323 miles of swimming, 66,349 miles of bicycling, and at least 25,500 miles of walking, amounting to more than 114,969 miles of physical activity. As the average age of patients who undergo index THA decreases, the debate regarding physical activity recommendations after THA has become increasingly relevant for patients, but this topic is inadequately studied and thus remains an unanswered question.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352344125000986Total hip arthroplastyBearing surfaceCeramic on CeramicAthleticsRunning
spellingShingle Marguerite L. Gilmore, BA
Ansab Khwaja, MD
Daniel H. Wiznia, MD
Lee E. Rubin, MD
115,000 Miles and Counting: Extraordinary Athletic Activity After a Historic Total HipArthroplasty with 39-year Follow-up
Arthroplasty Today
Total hip arthroplasty
Bearing surface
Ceramic on Ceramic
Athletics
Running
title 115,000 Miles and Counting: Extraordinary Athletic Activity After a Historic Total HipArthroplasty with 39-year Follow-up
title_full 115,000 Miles and Counting: Extraordinary Athletic Activity After a Historic Total HipArthroplasty with 39-year Follow-up
title_fullStr 115,000 Miles and Counting: Extraordinary Athletic Activity After a Historic Total HipArthroplasty with 39-year Follow-up
title_full_unstemmed 115,000 Miles and Counting: Extraordinary Athletic Activity After a Historic Total HipArthroplasty with 39-year Follow-up
title_short 115,000 Miles and Counting: Extraordinary Athletic Activity After a Historic Total HipArthroplasty with 39-year Follow-up
title_sort 115 000 miles and counting extraordinary athletic activity after a historic total hiparthroplasty with 39 year follow up
topic Total hip arthroplasty
Bearing surface
Ceramic on Ceramic
Athletics
Running
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352344125000986
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