No -acupuncture does not normally leave any marks at all. Sometimes it can leave a small bruise but, at least on me, it was not often or usual. And I have had a lot of acupuncture for things like bicycle and motorcycle crashes.

I had a whole hip replaced outpatient. I was not a candidate for hip revision. I despised my interactions with the medical people but I am okay. Stairs were fine from the first day -going up was easier than going down but down was doable. I was in an opiate haze for about the first 4 days then only took them before pt because pt people are sadists -but at least they are useful sadists. They are also, or at least the ones I have hired, extremely extroverted and exuberant go-getter types.