The hip joint consists of two main parts — the femoral head and the acetabulum. The femoral head is a ball-shaped bone at the top of the thigh bone. It sits in the acetabulum, which is a socket ...

connects into a depression in the pelvis (acetabulum). Because we bear weight on this joint, and it has many ranges of motion ...

The patient was a 73-year-old man with progressively disabling right hip pain for 2.5 years. The patient had failed ...

To avoid confusion, you should know that the shoulder joint also has a labrum. Labral tears in the shoulder (glenoid labrum) are more common the in the hip (acetabular labrum). There are two ...

The posterolateral approach was used in all procedures. After dislocating the hip joint, acetabular osteophytes were removed, the acetabulum was reamed and the acetabular component was impacted ...

Background Surgery for hip femoroacetabular impingement/acetabular labral tear (FAI/ALT) is exponentially increasing despite lacking investigation of the accuracy of ...

A condition called “FAI” femoral acetabular impingement is into a pincer type shape of the hip joint or a cam type shape of the hip joint which can pinch the labrum and repetitively ...

Stage VI hips displayed profound degenerative changes on both the acetabulum and the femoral ... 1 cm of distraction was present across the hip joint. Care was taken to avoid overdistraction.