Hip problems due to dysplasia are commonly associated with female athletes in sports demanding supraphysiologic motion, such as ballet, gymnastics and figure skating. However, hip problems are rarely mentioned among wrestlers, a male sport in which flexibility is advantageous. Dysplasia may have a mostly unrecognized prevalence among wrestlers that can lead to problems and benefit from reorient...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate acetabular morphology and the prevalence of dysplasia in a Saudi population, and compare it with others in different geographical areas. METHODS The study took place at King Fahd University Hospital, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from May 2005 to April 2006. We recruited radiographs of 104 patients of 40-88 years of age. We digitally measured the center edge angle (...

Introduction Recent evidence suggests that abnormal hip morphology may be the primary cause of osteoarthritis of the hip in young adults. Hip pathomorphology is manifested as acetabular deficiency or malorientation, or as femoral deformity or malorientation, and most commonly as a combination of these problems. Contemporary surgical intervention for hip preservation has been directed toward cor...

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is the preferred treatment for patients with severe arthritis of the hip secondary to developmental hip dislocation or dysplasia. However, THA may be difficult due to bone and soft tissue problems that arise from hip dislocation or dysplasia. Another problem is that patients are usually young, which may affect the long-term survival of the prosthesis. Either cemente...

Of the 34,723 infants born between 1 June 1992 and 31 May 2002, the hips of 2578 with clinical instability or at-risk factors for developmental dysplasia of the hip were imaged by ultrasound. Instability of the hip was present in 77 patients, of whom only 24 (31.2%) had an associated risk factor. From the 'at-risk' groups, the overall risk of type-III dysplasia, instability and irreducibility w...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the suggestion that osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip joint is often caused by subclinical acetabular dysplasia among elderly British women. METHODS We examined 393 hip joints from the radiographs of a sample of women aged 60-75 years undergoing intravenous urography. Acetabular dysplasia was assessed using measurements of the centre-edge (CE) angle and acetabular depth ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether universal (all neonates) or selective (neonates belonging to the risk groups) ultrasound screening of the hips should be recommended at birth. We carried out a prospective, randomised trial between 1988 and 1992, including all newborn infants at our hospital. A total of 15 529 infants was randomised to either clinical screening and ultrasound examin...