Sciatica type symptoms brought on after walking 15-30 mins.

Hello everyone

I live in the UK, am a reasonably fit 63 years old. I had a right total hip replacement using the posterior approach on August 6th 2025. The surgery went well with with no obvious swelling or bruises. and my recovery went as expected. At around 6-8 weeks I was off crutches and I went for my usual daily walk up the road and back, (around a mile total) and started to develop an ache deep in the buttock area with burning pain down the outside of the shin. I found a very careful standing figure four stretch eased the pain in the buttock and the shin and I could continue walking fairly comfortably. After a while it would flare up again and I would have to stop and repeat the stretch. This can also happen when I've been stood on my feet for a long time. The consultant didn't seem overly concerned and discharged me at three months.

I do have extremely tight glute muscles only on the operated hip side which was the case before my surgery.

Apart from this one problem every thing seems fine. I have no discernible limp, I have no particular discomfort at rest or in bed. I have played a few holes of golf but again have to do the stretch to ease the pain when it flares up.

If anyone else has experienced this or has any advice I'd be happy to know. Thanks for reading my post.

Sid.