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Filter by:This is a single-group, prospective, intervention study. A total of 30 participants with unilateral symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement will be included into the study. The intervention consists in neuromuscular training for the lower limb muscles (12 weeks, 2 times/week supervised training, 2 times/week home training). The training includes physical exercises routinely used worldwide in clinical settings. No control intervention group was included into the study because nowadays there is no standard conservative treatment for patients with symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement. Assessments will be performed at (1) baseline, (2) mid-intervention, (3) end-intervention, and (4) follow-up. Clinical, functional, neuromuscular and self-reported parameters will be collected during assessments.
Patients undergoing a hip scope procedure will be recruited for this study. They will be randomized to either receive a nerve block or no nerve block (pain medicine only). Pain levels and clinical outcomes will be assessed through 3 months post-operatively.
Purpose: The aim of this prospective cohort is to evaluate patients before, 6 and 12 months after arthroscopic surgery for FAI and compare the results to people without hip problems. Methods/design: Sixty patients with FAI and 30 persons without hip problems will be included. Pre- and postoperatively, patients will be evaluated by CT-scans. All participants will have their hip flexor and extensor muscle strength assessed and have performed kinetic and kinematic analyses of daily activities with 3D motion capture. Further, self-reported questionnaires on hip related pain, quality of life and sports activities will be collected. Finally, participants will have their daily physical activity monitored with tri-axial accelerometers for five consecutive days. Perspectives: With this prospective cohort study the outcome of arthroscopic treatment of FAI within one year after surgery will be evaluated. If the patients fail to reach reference values one year after surgery, altered surgical procedures or rehabilitation programs to optimize treatment for the patients may be explored in future studies. Further, the investigators expect to perform long-term follow up to evaluate reoperations, conversions to total hip arthroplasty and development of osteoarthritis for the patients surgically treated for FAI.
The purpose of this study is to compare the outcomes for patients that receive two different treatments used for FAI (Femoroacetabular Impingement). The programs are 1) a 6-week supervised physical therapy program and 2) arthroscopic surgery. Enrollment is limited to patients that have already been determined surgical candidates. The study is following patients for a 2-year period.
Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is recognized as a formal source of hip pain and disability typically affecting the young adult, active population and has been identified as a precursor to hip osteoarthritis (OA). Common impairments include sharp, anterior groin pain in a position of hip flexion limiting patients' ability to tolerate prolonged sitting, squatting, stair climbing, etc. resulting in both work limitations and decreased social participation. Manual therapy and exercise is known to be effective in reducing pain and increasing physical function in the management of hip OA. To the extent that FAI is often a precursor to developing hip OA, logic would seem to dictate a manual therapy plus exercise approach to decrease pain and disability and potentially prevent or delay osteoarthritis related surgery. Currently, surgery is considered the first line of treatment with respect to FAI. However, there is a lack of evidence to support or refute the use of conservative treatment interventions in this patient population. This study is designed to investigate the benefits of physical therapy interventions (manual therapy and exercise) over usual care for improving pain and physical function in patients with FAI of the hip. For this study, 52 participants will be recruited from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, for an outpatient consultation for consideration of hip arthroscopy surgery. Participants will include those patients who meet clinical and radiological criteria for formal diagnosis of FAI. Participants will be randomized into two treatment groups. Participants in one group will receive usual care plus manual therapy directed at the hip as well as a supervised exercise program and home exercise program twice weekly for six weeks. Participants in the usual care group will receive usual care as prescribed by the physician. Changes in pain, physical function and benefits of the intervention will be assessed over six weeks. Should this research study demonstrate treatment effectiveness of physical therapy intervention in patients diagnosed with FAI of the hip, manual therapy plus exercise may have the potential to delay or prevent surgery in this patient population. Further, to the extent to which FAI has been shown to lead to later development of hip OA, effective treatment interventions may help to delay or prevent secondary osteoarthritis related changes as well as total joint replacement surgery associated with hip OA. This study will provide preliminary data that can be used to prepare further grant applications designed to determine the safest, most effective treatments for patients with FAI.
The primary objective of this study is to investigate factors hypothesized to influence the prevalence of hip pathomorphology (femoroacetabular impingement, dysplasia) in young adults. To complete this objective, we will quantify the prevalence of radiographic measures indicative of hip pathomorphology in collegiate athletes and age-matched controls. This data will allow us to test our main hypothesis, that the prevalence of hip pathomorphology is higher in collegiate athletes than age-matched controls. To further elucidate the factors which may increase the prevalence of hip pathomorphology, we will correlate the radiographic measures to sport involvement history, hip function and demographics, as collected by means of a questionnaire. The secondary objective of this study is to determine if physical exams (range of motion, impingement test) could be used to screen for radiographic measures of hip pathomorphology in athletes and age-matched controls. To complete this objective, we will correlate range physical exam results to the radiographic measures and determine each exam's sensitivity and specificity to detect abnormal morphology.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether surgical correction of hip impingement morphology via arthroscopic osteochondroplasty (shaving of bone) will provide improved clinical results (decreased pain and improved function) in adult patients with femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) compared to arthroscopic lavage (washing out of painful inflammation debris) and treating obvious damage of the hip joint.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has proven to be one of the best ways to image articular cartilage. A tremendous amount of research has focused on cartilage imaging with an emphasis of early-osteoarthritis (OA) characterization. One of the techniques which has shown great promise is the imaging technique called T1ρ . The advantage of this pulse sequence is that it is sensitive to proteoglycans (PG), a major macromolecule degraded in OA. The study objective is to determine if T1ρ can acutely assess PG content in femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) which may allow physicians to differentiate between normal and early-OA cartilage states in FAI patients.
Femoroacetabular hip impingement syndrome is a newly recognized cause of early arthritis of the hip. In this condition a variation in the shape of the upper thigh bone causes it to repeatedly come in contact with the hip socket leading to cartilage damage and arthritis. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether patients without hip pain have variations at the hip joint such as those seen in hip impingement syndrome.