Lionel Richie, now 73, was a fan of carrying platform boots on stage throughout his Commodores day. But strutting his stuff within the fancy footwear left him with crippling knee and hip ache.

Battling arthritis and unable to tour, the All Night Long singer underwent, what was on the time, a secret hip substitute.

In an exclusive with Mirror.co.uk in 2014 he stated: "Since the Commodore days, we don’t wear those big boots any more because of the knees and the ankles.

"I give it some thought now, and assume, ‘What was I doing?!’ Every night time, on stage, we’d leap from one riser to the ground. Craziness! What was I considering?

"I've had slightly knee drawback, slightly hip drawback, however not as dangerous as all that. Although I did must have a hip operation three years in the past and, actually, I hardly bear in mind which one it's now as a result of expertise is so wonderful.

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"I put it off for a couple of 12 months then in the future thought, ‘Screw it, let it go’ and had it carried out."

Richie joked everything about him after the operation was brand new, and said the hip was doing better than ever.

When a hip replacement is needed

A hip replacement is when a damaged hip joint is replaced with an artificial one.

The NHS explains: "Adults of any age might be thought-about for a hip substitute, though most are carried out on individuals between the ages of 60 and 80.

"A modern artificial hip joint is designed to last for at least 15 years. Most people have a significant reduction in pain and improvement in their range of movement."

The most typical motive for hip substitute surgical procedure is osteoarthritis - the commonest sort of arthritis within the UK.

Symptoms of osteoarthritis

Symptoms have a tendency to construct up over time relatively than present up out of the blue, based on the Arthritis Foundation.

Symptoms embrace:

• Pain or aching in a joint throughout exercise, after lengthy exercise or on the finish of the day.
• Joint stiffness often happens very first thing within the morning or after resting.
• Limited vary of movement that will go away after motion.
• Clicking or popping sound when a joint bends.
• Swelling round a joint.
• Muscle weak point across the joint.
• Joint instability or buckling (as when a knee provides out).

Age is an element for growing osteoarthritis - the chance will increase with age, with signs typically showing in individuals over the age of fifty.

Obesity can even add stress and stress on a joint, with fats cells additionally selling irritation.

People with members of the family who've osteoarthritis usually tend to develop the situation, and girls have additionally been discovered to be extra more likely to develop it than males.

If you observed you may have osteoarthritis, converse to your GP. Lionel Richie on the BBC is displaying on BBC2 at 8:30pm on Saturday 6 May.