Minnesota Wild right winger Marian Gaborik needs hip surgery

If you think hip surgeries are only for old people, think again. Twenty-six-year-old hockey player Marian Gaborik is going to have hip surgery today and will be out of service for at least 10 weeks, say news reports. Apparently, he had the same corrective surgery done already on his right hip.

The hip is a complicated joint. It’s a ball-and-socket joint that takes a tremendous amount of stress from body weight and movement. That’s why many people who have osteoarthritis, the so-called wear-and-tear arthritis, have it in their hip or hips.

I feel badly for Marian Gaborik. I know that he’s made a ton of money already as a hockey player, but he was going to take his chances as a free agent and at the age of 26, he should have had a good few years left to play hockey. Here’s to wishing him a complication-free surgery and a quick recovery.

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