When I first checked Dr. Mast’s website, something felt different. He was exceptionally thorough….he addressed information which allows patients to make realistic decisions about care, understanding the costs. The entire team at the Hip and Pelvis Institute is organized, knowledgeable, patient and efficient.
After two decades, I can bend over without my back going out. It makes me tear up with gratitude. I love this surgeon. I feel grateful that he worked so hard, learned so much, and cares so deeply about healing people.
This was a gift to me—and to you if you are reading this. When I first checked Dr. Mast’s website, something felt different. He was exceptionally thorough, he posted his fees for everyone to understand costs, he made a video on his many accepted insurances. He addressed information which allows patients to make realistic decisions about care, understanding the costs. The entire team at the Hip and Pelvis Institute is organized, knowledgeable, patient and efficient. Their friendly nature and detailed literature packet all made me feel I was in good hands. Their packet included updated American Dental Association’s research and guidelines with important protocols for joint replacement patients. (Antibiotics vs non antibiotics, info my own dentist did not know.)
The post-surgery PT had me climbing stairs 4 hours post-surgery. There was little pain and I was off painkillers in 4 days. The ice machine helps healing and pain. The 3” bikini line incision is its own success story. This is the only surgeon I’m aware of who does this type of incision. In fact, it was shorter than a 4.5” incision down a friend’s front thigh.
PT (which you can start after 2 weeks) makes an immediate difference in healing, flexibility, strength and ease of movement. People talk about hip replacement being successful—I was living it. I moved around well on a walker the first 5 days. There are no positional restrictions with this surgery and you can get going so soon—but I may have broken protocol when after one week, I walked my dogs a half mile using only a cane. But walking felt so incredibly good! I am only 6 weeks in as I write this and I can move freely and I walk without a limp. I did not need a cane after 2 weeks. My neighbors clap for me as I pass by and some jotted down Dr. Mast’s name. I am particularly amazed that after two decades, I can bend over without my back going out. It makes me tear up with gratitude. I love this surgeon. I feel grateful that he worked so hard, learned so much, and cares so deeply about healing people. My husband actually renamed him, Dr. Perfect, and he suspects Dr. Perfect is also a scratch golfer who climbs Mt. Everest in his spare time.”
