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Clinical Diagnosis of FAI: An Evidence-Based Approach to History and Physical Examination of the Hip

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Diagnosis and Management of Femoroacetabular Impingement

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Assessing the young adult hip can be challenging. It is not simply about finding a “square peg in a round hole” [1]; patients exhibit a spectrum of disorders. The first hurdle is characterising these symptoms to differentiate major structural abnormalities in the hip from extra-articular soft tissue problems. As many patients presenting with hip pain often have an active lifestyle, they may have concomitant pathologies, which may be coincidental findings or compensatory disorders. Ultimately the goal is to ascertain an aetiology or structural abnormality and select an appropriate treatment option.

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    Aparna Viswanath MBBS, BSc, MRCS & Vikas Khanduja MA, MSc, FRCS, FRCS (Orth)

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Viswanath, A., Khanduja, V. (2017). Clinical Diagnosis of FAI: An Evidence-Based Approach to History and Physical Examination of the Hip. In: Ayeni, O., Karlsson, J., Philippon, M., Safran, M. (eds) Diagnosis and Management of Femoroacetabular Impingement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32000-7_3

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