Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

There are a lot of causes of post traumatic hip pain which indicates hip arthroscopy procedures, like labral tears, chondral lesions, ligamentumteres injuries capsule pathologies and loose bodies. Patient selection is an important issue for a potentially successful outcome, general parameters include younger patients, mechanical joint symptoms, unremitting joint symptoms, and no diagnosis has been made.Presence of the symptoms for more than six months withfailure of conservative treatment and reasonable expectations from the patient. A comprehensive inspection of the hip joint requires the combination of hip arthroscopy with traction and hip arthroscopy without traction. Although traction is necessary for access to the central compartment for evaluation of the direct weight-bearing cartilage, acetabular fossa, and ligamentumteres, the periphery of the joint can best be seen without traction

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