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01-04-2015 | Symposium: 2014 Bernese Hip Symposium
CORR Insights®: Patient-specific Anatomical and Functional Parameters Provide New Insights into the Pathomechanism of Cam FAI
Authors:
Michael Leunig, MD, Nicola Maffiuletti, PhD
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 4/2015
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Excerpt
While initially evoking critical skepticism, there has been an almost tsunami-like expansion of surgical interventions and publications related to femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). With FAI, surgeons are faced with two main difficulties: (1) Identifying affected individuals and making the correct diagnosis and (2) treating the symptoms associated to FAI, which are further complicated by the fact that the affected patients are young, often active, and sometimes very athletic. …