Current state-of-the-art of hip arthroscopy

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Hip arthroscopy has garnered tremendous interest over the past several years from surgeons, the scientific community and patients alike. Prior to advances in hip arthroscopy, there were limited surgical options for treating hip conditions. Since the comprehensive description of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) by Ganz et al. [7, 8] and Leunig et al. [12], an improved understanding of hip disease in the young adult has emerged. Subsequently, there has been an increased interest in studying the non-arthritic hip (both clinically and biomechanically), which, in turn, has led to better understanding of the pathophysiology of hip disease and the identification of new pathologies (such as subspinous impingement and ischiofemoral impingement). The culmination of this increased emphasis on the non-arthritic hip has resulted in a growth in applying surgical techniques of the hip, specifically hip arthroscopic techniques to treat a variety of hip conditions (including FAI). …