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Hip arthroscopy has found its rightful place in the orthopedic surgery domain for treating injuries to the hip while preserving the anatomy and function of the hip joint.

Under the direction of T. Sean Lynch, MD, the Center for Athletic Hip Injuries and Hip Preservation at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, orthopedic surgeons are evaluating a number of avenues to optimize the care of patients with athletic and other hip injuries. Of particular interest is triaging these patients to the appropriate level of care – from physical therapy and injections to hip arthroscopy. To that end, Dr. Lynch and his colleagues have streamlined protocols for managing patients with hip injuries, which tend to be multidisciplinary conditions requiring the collaborative and coordinated expertise of orthopedic surgeons, musculoskeletal radiologists, nonoperative physicians, and physical therapists.

While our orthopedic physicians manage the many acute injuries that can occur around the hip, such as muscle injuries typically seen in weekend warriors, the care of patients with chronic hip injuries in the setting of femoroacetabular impingement are particularly concerning because pinpointing the origin of the pain is puzzling and not generally linked to a traumatic event. As a result, it can be difficult to isolate a diagnosis, especially when the hip pain may originate from intra- and extra-articular hip structures, the lumbar spine, the pelvic floor, or a combination of these, or be referred as pain from the bowel, bladder, or reproductive organs.

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