Normally, the ball glides smoothly within the socket, but a problem with the ball or socket rim can interfere with smooth motion, leading to hip impingement or femoro acetabular impingement (FAI).

Background We aimed to appraise (1) the rate of return to sport of athletes after hip surgery for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI ... labral tears, acetabular and/or femoral cartilage lesions) and ...

Background The purpose of this review was to analyse and report criteria used for open and arthroscopic surgical treatment of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS ... impingement’[tiab] OR ...

Hip impingement - also known as femoral acetabular impingement (FAI ... like snapping hip syndrome or bursitis. A blood test can be recommended to rule out other inflammation that may be ...

Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI ... CT offers detailed information on femoral and acetabular version as well as the topography of the cam lesion, and dynamic software analyses of CT data ...

Hip pain is no longer reserved for older adults. More and more young, active people are developing this problem, which often requires surgery to repair. Hip preservation specialists at The Ohio ...

Hip preservation specialists at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center see patients from their teens through their sixties who have femoral acetabular impingement, or FAI. This condition ...

Hip or femoro–acetabular impingement results from abnormalities of the femoral head or the acetabulum. It can be caused by jamming of an abnormally shaped femoral head into the acetabulum, or by ...

It is associated with an unusual shape of the hip socket (acetabulum) and/or the head of the thigh bone (femoral head ... is examining arthroscopic femoro–acetabular surgery for hip impingement ...