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A tremendous advance in hip arthroscopy occurred in 1987 when James Glick, Thomas Sampson, and colleagues1 described the lateral decubitus position for hip arthroscopy. Previous successful attempts had been made in the supine position on a standard fracture table, but it was not successful in my hands. After performing six cases in the early 1980s using regular techniques and obtaining very poor results, I abandoned this method. It required too much traction (75 to 100 lbs) to minimally sub-lux the hip inferiorly.
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Sweeney, H.J. (2001). Arthroscopy of the Hip: Lateral Decubitus Position. In: Chow, J.C.Y. (eds) Advanced Arthroscopy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21541-9_38
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