Open reduction of the prominence at the femoral head-neck junction in femoroacetabular impingement has become an established treatment for this condition. We report our experience of arthroscopically-assisted treatment of femoroacetabular impingement secondary to paediatric hip disease in 14 hips in 13 consecutive patients (seven women, six men) with a mean age of 30.6 years (24 to 39) at the t...

This article describes a case of an acute anterior inferior iliac spine apophyseal avulsion fracture in an adolescent athlete progressing to secondary symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement from an inferiorly displaced malunion and its arthroscopic management. A 13-year-old boy with an acute minimally displaced avulsion fracture of the anterior inferior iliac spine apophysis had initial sympt...

Hip and groin pain has, for many years, been a difficult diagnostic challenge. In the past decade there has been increased focus on femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) as a cause. FAI is now considered by many as a primary cause of hip joint degeneration. Our appreciation and understanding of FAI is currently increasing at an exponential rate. In this paper we review FAI as a pathology and revie...

BACKGROUND We aimed to search whether alpha angle, a radiological clue used in the diagnosis of femoroacetabular impingement, is correlated with the presence of hip pain, internal rotation angle, and impingement test results on hip impingement patients (CAM type). METHODS Medical records of 334 patients (156 women, 178 men) with an average age of 33.8 ± 8.4 (range 20-50) years were retrospect...

Purpose The purpose of this in vitro cadaveric study was to examine the contributions each surgical stage during cam femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) surgery (i.e., intact-cam hip, T-capsulotomy, resection, and capsular repair) toward hip range motion, translation, microinstability. Methods Twelve hips were denuded capsule mounted onto a robotic tester. positioned several fl...

BACKGROUND There are currently no studies that have examined the recurrence of the cam lesion after femoral neck osteoplasty for femoroacetabular impingement. Although patient-reported outcome (PRO) scores at midterm follow-up have shown continued success, the maintenance of a normalized alpha angle has not been shown radiographically. PURPOSE To assess the radiographic recurrence of cam defo...