Posts Tagged ‘hip pain’
Acetabular Dysplasia: Development and Prevention
In the last couple of blogs, I’ve been examining what we know about important bony risk factors for hip pain and pathology – cam morphology and femoral malversion. Now we…
Read MoreCam Morphology: Development and Prevention
Cam morphology is an aspherical femoral head, where extra bone at the femoral head-neck junction may cause damage to the acetabular labrum and rim cartilage, as the large bony bump…
Read MoreThe hip and pelvic floor – Let’s get it together!
The hip and pelvic floor are commonly assessed and treated as disparate entities. Pelvic health (women’s and men’s health) physiotherapists tend to specialise in this area, with the assessment and…
Read MoreFlick the Flap after hip replacement
During our most recent Hip Academy live member meeting, we were discussing the types of exercise protocols used for post-operative rehabilitation after total hip arthroplasty (hip replacement surgery). I wasn’t…
Read MoreGreater trochanteric pain after hip replacement
Many surgeons consider trochanteric pain a relatively minor complication following arthroplasty, however the impact can be substantial, with significant reductions in post-operative satisfaction, quality-of-life and functional outcomes.1,2,3 Those with greater…
Read MoreSurgical and rehab predictors of failed hip arthroscopy
Unfortunately, many people to continue to have pain and functional difficulty after hip arthroscopy. In my last blog we discussed patient predictors of failed hip arthroscopy – factors that are…
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