Main description:

This book focuses on the problems seen in the adult hip in sport including pre arthritic inflammatory, non inflammatory, and degenerative causes of hip pain. It particularly focuses on our rapidly evolving understanding and treatment of joint preserving surgery. In this book experts in the field discuss the anatomy, diagnosis, investigation and pathophysiology of young adult hip disease with a particular focus on the sporting population. Sports Medicine is now a specialty in its own right. Worldwide, hip and groin pain in elite sport is an unresolved issue . This is an area that has expanded dramatically in the last 5 years and hip arthroscopy as a procedure has arrived in a big way with numbers increasing exponentially and the inception of the ISHA (International Society for Hip Arthroscopy).

Contents:

Section 1

The basics of the assessment of the young adult hip.

1) The anatomy of hip disease

2) Imaging in hip disease - This would be broken down into sections of:-

Plain radiographs

The use of ultrasound

The use of CT

The use of MRI

The use of Nuclear medicine

The use of PET scanning

3) Clinic diagnosis in hip disease

4) Biomechanics of the hip

Section 2

The conditions that Underpin Hip Pain in the Young Adult

5) Congenital/Developmental conditions of the hip

6) Slipped Upper Femoral Epiphysis and its variants

7) The pathology and management of impingement

8) The pathology and management of osteonecrosis of the hip

9) Traumatic conditions of the hip

10) Sports specific injuries of the hip joint

11) Extra articular causes of hip/groin pain

12) The sportsman groin and adductor related problems around the hip

13) Nerve entrapment around the hip

Section 3

Management techniques

14) Medical Management of Hip Disease including Viscosupplementation

15) Hip Injections and Arthrography

16) Hip Arthroscopy: the central compartment

17) Hip Arthroscopy: the peripheral compartment

18) Hip Arthroscopy the use of navigation

19) The management of chondral defects in the hip

20) Labral repair and reattachment

21) Open dislocation in the management of hip disease

22) Hip resurfacing for young adult hip disease

23) Osteotomy of the femur for young adult hip disease

24) Pelvic Osteotomy for young adult hip disease

25) Innovations in total hip replacement for young hip adult disease

26) Mini THR for young adult hip disease

27) Rehabilitation from Hip and Groin Surgery

28) Outcomes assessment in young hip disease