To protect your hip, you must learn safe ways to do daily tasks. This includes getting dressed and undressed. Your doctor may suggest tools to help you. These include a reacher, sock aid, and dressing stick.

Be careful not to bend forward or lift your knee above your hip.

Sit on a chair or on the side of the bed.

• Pull the sock onto the sock aid as you have been shown.
• Hold the sock in front of the foot on your operated side. Slip your foot into the sock. Pull the sock aid out of the sock.
• Put the other sock on with the sock aid, or bring your foot toward you and slip the sock on with your hands.

• Sit on a chair or the side of the bed.
• Using a reacher, catch the waist of the underwear or pants with the grasper.
• First, slip the pants onto the leg that surgery was done on. Then slip your other leg into the pants.
• Use the reacher to pull the pants over your feet and above your knee. Pull them to where you can reach them with your hands.
• Hold the pants with one hand. Push up from the chair to stand. Steady yourself with your walker.
• With your hands, pull the pants the rest of the way up.

• Wear slip-on shoes or use elastic or Velcro shoelaces so you don't have to bend.
• Sit on a chair. Put your foot into the shoe. Use a reacher or long-handled shoehorn to pull the shoe on.