Hip Preservation
Hip treatment before damage takes a toll on your body
Your hip problem may be due to an inherited condition, overuse or injury. It’s important to keep an eye on and sometimes treat hip conditions in younger people so they don’t worsen and cause more problems.
Overview
Your hip problem may be due to an inherited condition, overuse or injury. It’s important to keep an eye on and sometimes treat hip conditions in younger people so they don’t worsen and cause more problems.
Treatments to Preserve Your Hip
Orthopedic specialists work closely with you to help you decide which treatments fit best with your lifestyle today and in the future.
Hip Arthroscopy
Your doctor might recommend hip arthroscopy if you have one of these conditions and nonsurgical treatments including pain medication, injections and physical therapy haven’t helped.
- Labral damage
- Femoroacetabular impingement
- Damaged or torn cartilage
- Contracted joint capsules
- Bone spurs or abnormalities that decrease your range of motion
Hip arthroscopy is a minimally invasive surgical technique to repair damaged cartilage, shave off bone spurs or remove tissue. Your surgeon makes small incisions around your hip joint and inserts a small camera through the incision. This helps your surgeon see inside as he or she works to improve your hip function.
Arthroscopy has few risks, and you recover quickly.
Periacetabular Osteotomy
Your doctor may recommend periacetabular osteotomy if you have congenital hip dysplasia. Having this surgery may help you delay or avoid hip replacement.
Periacetabular osteotomy is an advanced surgical procedure in which your hip socket is repositioned. Your surgeon cuts your hip socket away from your pelvis and repositions it to fit over the femoral head. Your hip socket is reattached to your pelvis with screws. This repositioning results in less pressure on your hip cartilage and less damage to it. Less damage means less risk for arthritis.
You have general anesthesia for this operation and a 4- to 5-inch incision on the front of your hip. You spend two to four days in the hospital after surgery, and must wait six to eight weeks before putting weight on your hip. Our specialists help you with physical rehabilitation, strength training and pain management. Usually, your pain is gone by eight weeks after surgery. You can usually get back to normal activities after four months.
Femoral Head/Acetabular Osteoplasty
Your doctor may perform a minimally invasive arthroscopy to remove abnormalities in your bone that have caused femoroacetabulur impingement. If the bone can’t be corrected with arthroscopy, your doctor may recommend a femoral head/acetabular osteoplasty, an open surgical procedure, to make changes to your bone structure, improve range of motion and reduce pain.
You receive general anesthesia for osteoplasty. The surgeon makes a 3- to 4 inch incision. You stay in the hospital overnight after surgery.
You can’t put weight on your hip or rotate it for as long as six weeks after surgery. You can use crutches to get around. After six weeks, you begin to work with our physical therapists to make sure you don’t move your hip too much before it has healed.
What To Expect
Treatments to Preserve Your Hip
Orthopedic specialists work closely with you to help you decide which treatments fit best with your lifestyle today and in the future.
Hip Arthroscopy
Your doctor might recommend hip arthroscopy if you have one of these conditions and nonsurgical treatments including pain medication, injections and physical therapy haven’t helped.
- Labral damage
- Femoroacetabular impingement
- Damaged or torn cartilage
- Contracted joint capsules
- Bone spurs or abnormalities that decrease your range of motion
Hip arthroscopy is a minimally invasive surgical technique to repair damaged cartilage, shave off bone spurs or remove tissue. Your surgeon makes small incisions around your hip joint and inserts a small camera through the incision. This helps your surgeon see inside as he or she works to improve your hip function.
Arthroscopy has few risks, and you recover quickly.
Periacetabular Osteotomy
Your doctor may recommend periacetabular osteotomy if you have congenital hip dysplasia. Having this surgery may help you delay or avoid hip replacement.
Periacetabular osteotomy is an advanced surgical procedure in which your hip socket is repositioned. Your surgeon cuts your hip socket away from your pelvis and repositions it to fit over the femoral head. Your hip socket is reattached to your pelvis with screws. This repositioning results in less pressure on your hip cartilage and less damage to it. Less damage means less risk for arthritis.
You have general anesthesia for this operation and a 4- to 5-inch incision on the front of your hip. You spend two to four days in the hospital after surgery, and must wait six to eight weeks before putting weight on your hip. Our specialists help you with physical rehabilitation, strength training and pain management. Usually, your pain is gone by eight weeks after surgery. You can usually get back to normal activities after four months.
Femoral Head/Acetabular Osteoplasty
Your doctor may perform a minimally invasive arthroscopy to remove abnormalities in your bone that have caused femoroacetabulur impingement. If the bone can’t be corrected with arthroscopy, your doctor may recommend a femoral head/acetabular osteoplasty, an open surgical procedure, to make changes to your bone structure, improve range of motion and reduce pain.
You receive general anesthesia for osteoplasty. The surgeon makes a 3- to 4 inch incision. You stay in the hospital overnight after surgery.
You can’t put weight on your hip or rotate it for as long as six weeks after surgery. You can use crutches to get around. After six weeks, you begin to work with our physical therapists to make sure you don’t move your hip too much before it has healed.
