Hip Hip Hooray! is Back

Hip Hip Hooray!, the signature fundraising campaign of the Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation, is being re-launched this September 2011. It is a walk for bone and joint health held from coast-to-coast between September 21 – 25. Grateful patients who have regained their mobility through orthopaedic surgery participate in the walk, along with their friends and families. It is an event symbolic of regained life through restored mobility.

Proceeds will be invested into local communities through the production and distribution of educational materials and resources. These materials will be made available to orthopaedic patients through hospitals, surgeon offices, physiotherapy clinics, joint assessment clinics, via nurses, through mail and on-line. Funds will also be used to expand local services of the Ortho Connect Peer Support Program.

This is an exciting time for orthopaedics and especially for the thousands of Canadians awaiting surgery who are living with pain and limited mobility. These patients need surgery to restore their ability to work, walk, move and live – abilities that healthy, well-functioning bones and joints are meant to support. As federal and provincial governments work to reduce the wait times to surgery, specifically to hip and knee replacements, more surgeries will be performed. More surgeries mean more patients, and more patients mean greater demand than ever before for information and patient education. The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation uses funds raised through Hip Hip Hooray! to ensure patients receive the information and resources needed to restore their mobility – and to keep them moving.

Since its inception in 1992, Hip Hip Hooray! has raised more than $18 million toward the maintenance and restoration of bone and joint health, mobility and function. Hip Hip Hooray! is an important opportunity to celebrate what patients, surgeons, and health care professionals have accomplished, and what we can look forward to in the future: excellence in bone and joint health for all Canadians.

 

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