BACKGROUND Pain radiating below the knee is typically thought to originate from the lumbosacral spine rather than degenerative hip pathology. We investigated the lower limb distribution of pain using body image maps in 60 patients awaiting primary hip arthroplasty and in 60 patients awaiting spinal decompression for confirmed spinal stenosis. The perception of 33 orthopaedic registrars regardin...

Idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip usually develops in adolescents and is a disease characterized by gradual degenerative changes of the hyaline cartilage surrounding the head of the femur. It eventually decreases the hip joint space and causes limitations in the hip joint range of motion due to pain. The authors had experienced an unusual case of bilateral idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip in...

Little or no research has been performed on the physical therapy treatment of hip pain. The purpose of this study was to compare two different treatments for hip pain. Twenty runners who had primary hip pain and sacroiliac joint dysfunction, without evidence of arthritic changes, were randomly assigned to two groups. One group received a mobilization technique to the involved hip, while the oth...

OBJECTIVE To establish the relationships between the range of joint motion (ROM) and disability in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee or hip. Two related issues were addressed: (1) the inter-relationships between ROMs of joint actions, and (2) the relationship between ROM and disability. METHODS Data on 198 patients with OA of the knee or hip were used. The ROM was assessed bilater...

Instability of the hip joint in the young adult is a difficult problem. Patients with an unstable hip secondary to any aetiology usually have loss of bone from the proximal femur or shortening of the limb or both. In this study we report our results in the treatment of the unstable hip joint in young adults by pelvic support osteotomy using the Ilizarov method. From 1997 to 2004, 25 patients (1...

CONTEXT Lower extremity kinetics while performing a single-leg forward jump landing may help explain gender biased risk for noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injury. OBJECTIVE Gender comparison of lower extremity joint angles and moments. DESIGN Static groups comparison. SETTING Motion analysis laboratory. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS 8 male and 8 female varsity, collegiate soccer...