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Donald Kempf has won two Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge awards since his hip resurfacing.

Kempf's ‘crazy stuff’—
The Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge

Kempf's is an avid competitor in the Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge®—as seen on ESPN and Versus. In that competition, pairs of competitors, wearing “full bunker gear” and breathing apparatus, race head-to-head as they simulate the physical demands of firefighting by performing a linked series of five tasks including climbing a five-story tower, hoisting, chopping, dragging hoses and rescuing a life-sized 175-pound “victim.”

A fellow firefighter who had hip resurfacing by Dr. William Stanfield told Kempf about the procedure. “He would see me limping around and go, ‘What are you waiting for?’” Kempf recalls. “So I finally made an appointment to see Dr. Stanfield.”

Hip resurfacing preserves range of motion

“Hip resurfacing allows you a lot more freedom of movement than total hip replacement,” Dr. Stanfield explains. “It's more like re-creating the normal hip anatomy than changing it, which is what total hip replacement does.

“I told Mr. Kempf before surgery that I couldn't make him any promises, but hip resurfacing would be the only way he would have a chance to get back to doing the firefighters competition,” Dr. Stanfield recalls. “There wouldn't be any way to do that with a full hip replacement.”

Kempf had hip resurfacing in October 2008. “The day of surgery, my hip pain was gone!” he says. I was back to work in six weeks—and back to my training.

“By the following August, 10 months after surgery, I won the over-50 portion of the event in Windsor, Ontario,” he recalls.

“A couple of months later, I won in my age group at a competition in Indiana as well. I'm really happy with the surgery and with Dr. Stanfield,” says Kempf. “And he's athletic himself, which made me comfortable.”

William Stanfield, MD

Are there movement restrictions after hip resurfacing like there are after total hip replacement?

No. Because hip resurfacing has less risk of dislocation, you don't have to worry about hip precautions such as not crossing your legs and not bending your hips past 90 degrees, as total hip replacement patients do.

For an appointment, call 440.329.2800.

High school athletes:

Come to our June 10 Sports Physical Event

Need your sports physical completed? Attend our second annual Center for Orthopedics High School Sports Physical Event.

Clearview High School athletes: Click for more information. All other high school athletes: Click for more information.

Questions? Call 440.329.2863

Have arthritis?

Come to the Lorain County Arthritis Expo.

• Dr. Robert Zanotti will speak about shoulder arthritis at 11:15
• Dr. Daniel Zanotti will speak about knee arthritis at 1:15