Spring 2016–Maryland’s Health Matters: Dr. David Dalury
Life Is Hip for fitness expert after mini-posterior hip replacement
Lydia Haskell, International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness champion, professional fitness instructor and former NFL cheerleader, is used to overcoming obstacles. At age 5, an accident on her tricycle turned into a nightmarish staph infection that spread to her hip bone and almost took her life. “To save me, the doctors had to cut out a chunk of my hip, and they said I’d never walk again,” she recalls. But, after six months in a body cast, Haskell proved them wrong. Not only did she walk again, at age 6 she began dancing, and never stopped…”
