Hip Arthroscopy

News clip on Hip Arthroscopy. Kelly Pomares going thru a hip scope in a Canadian hospital.

new type of hip surgery using small, precision tools is helping to get athletes and weekend warriors in their 20s through 40s back on their feet.

Arthroscopic surgery has revolutionized knee and shoulder surgery. The technique is now being applied to the hip joint, although the procedure is new in Canada and doctors are still assessing its effectiveness.

It may help the thousands of Canadians who are too young to qualify for hip replacement surgery or have problems that aren't considered severe enough for a new hip.

Hip arthroscopy is seldom performed in Canada.

To carry out the procedure, rather than cut open the entire hip, doctors insert precision tools and a camera directly into the hip joint through tiny incisions.
"In my own experience, what I've been finding is if it is a simple problem the results are very good," said Dr. Nick Mohtadi, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Calgary who has performed about 80 of the operations.

Using X-rays as a guide, Mohtadi drills three holes or portals into the socket that holds the hip damage and then uses the camera to assess the damage, such as a tear in the rim in the socket. Precision-guided instruments are used to shave down the joint and repair the tear.
"I think hip arthroscopy at this point would be for the younger, high demand individual or athlete," said Mahomed.

For patients such as 21-year-old Kelly Pomares of Okotoks, Alta., where the hip is damaged by tears or loose bone chips, there is some evidence that arthroscopic surgery helps.

Pomares has a passion for horseback riding but painful damage to her hips has kept her out of the saddle. A week after her arthroscopic surgery, it is difficult to tell how it will turn out.

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Education

Tags:

• Periacetabular
• osteotomy
• Hip
• arthroscopy
• labral
• tear
• acetabular
• dysplasia
• surgery
• orthopedic
• replacement
• resurfacing

[tigershumon]

Hip resurfacing is your best option than any other surgery. The most important thing to consider is that you must follow the physio excercises straight after the op, and follow it relegiously. It will take some time to recover, it comes down to sheer will and being persistant with the right excercise. My physio therapist got this lady to ride horses four months after having two discs replaced in her spine. Yours is just hip.

[smellofpissoffu]

8 weeks. im 8 weeks along now back trainin full time in a few weeks

[Meggzinator]

i'm having this surgery in decemeber. i'm very nervous about it. how long did it take to be able to walk properly again?

[b44tiina]

Wow!! How is your hip now? I just LOVE horses and horseback riding myself so much and I can imagine how sad you felt not being able to ride!!I do hope it's better now after the surgery and that you can ride!!wishing you all the best!

[bendinga]

Yes, but the big question is: can she now ride? I am looking at hip resurfacing and can find little info on riding. It is my passion and I want to do everything I can to be sure I can still ride. Anyone out there have info - please post here.