BACKGROUND Existent biomechanical studies on hip osteoarthritic gait have primarily focused on the end stage of disease. Consequently, there is no clear consensus on which specific gait parameters are of most relevance for hip osteoarthritis patients with mild to moderate symptoms. The purpose of this study was to explore sagittal plane gait characteristics during the stance phase of gait in hi...

A 23-year-old male patient presented to our clinic with pain and limited motion in the right hip. The pain start ed about 3 years previously and increased over time, spreading to the trochanteric region of the right hip and the right groin. The characteristic of the pain was mechanical. He did not feel pain while sleeping. Prolonged sitting or standing caused the hip to lock. Previously, he had...

OBJECTIVE To investigate gender differences in three-dimensional hip and knee joint mechanics in collegiate athletes during a randomly cued cutting maneuver. DESIGN Three-dimensional kinematics and kinetics were collected on 24 collegiate soccer players (12 females and 12 males) while each performed the cutting maneuver. In order to create a randomly cued condition, subjects were signaled by ...

BACKGROUND Developmental dysplasia of the hip joint is one of the most common congenital defects and often results in functional and structural disorders. Such cases particularly demand optimizing therapeutic effects and maximally reducing the duration of therapy. PURPOSE The aim of this case report is to present the therapeutic process in a child with developmental hip dysplasia. CASE REPO...

BACKGROUNDS Non-traumatic hip dislocation in children is most often observed in the course of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) and infantile cerebral palsy. The risk of pain sensations from dislocated hip joint differentiates the discussed groups of patients. Will every painless hip joint in children with cerebral palsy painful in the future? METHODS Material included 34 samples of jo...

We characterized the extent to which body mass influences the relationship between hip joint moments during locomotion and bone mineral density (BMD) of the proximal femur in healthy young women (n = 24). There is some evidence of a direct relationship between hip joint moments during locomotion and BMD of the proximal femur in patients with osteoarthritis. Nevertheless, based on expected simul...

OBJECTIVE To analyse sports activities of patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) over lifetime, preoperatively, and 5 years after arthroplasty. METHODS In a longitudinal four centre study, 809 consecutive patients with advanced OA of the hip (420) or the knee (389) joint under the age of 76 years who required total joint replacement were recruited. A completed questionnaire about sport...