HEALTH INSIGHTS

Hip Safety: Sitting

October 10, 2017

Hip Safety: Sitting

Learn the right moves to protect your new hip. Follow your “hip precautions” and the instructions below.

Sitting safely

To protect your new hip, you must sit with your knees lower than or level with your hips. To do this, sit in chairs with high seats. Placing a firm pillow on the seat of a chair can help raise it.

To sit down

Line drawing of a person's leg, sitting on a chair, with the knee lower than the hip.

Image of woman with a walker backing up into chair - one hand on walker and one on the arm of the chair - the chair is touching the back of her legs.

Woman lowering herself into chair - keeping operated leg slightly out in front.

Woman seated in the chair with her hips higher than her knees.

Updated:  

October 10, 2017

Reviewed By:  

Joseph, Thomas N., MD,Walton-Ziegler, Olivia, MS, PA-C