Hip Conditions
Hip conditions refer to a variety of musculoskeletal problems affecting the hip joint, surrounding structures, or related tissues. These conditions can include injuries, degenerative diseases like osteoarthritis, congenital abnormalities, or inflammatory conditions like bursitis.
Subscribe to the BlogAVN Hip Stem Cell Treatment: How It’s Done…
What is AVN? AVN stands for avascular necrosis. This is also known as osteonecrosis. This is a disease where the stem and progenitor cells (repair crew) in bone can’t function and the bone begins to die off. The bone can collapse, which in the hip, can cause a square peg in a round hole. There…read more
The Reality of Hip Labrum Tear Surgery Results
The hip joint is a ball-and-socket structure, and when a bone spur develops on either the ball or the socket, this is called a femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), or a hip impingement. With an impingement, the concept is that you have a misshapen ball or socket that is somehow damaging or creating tears in the labrum,…read more The Side Effects of Hip Labrum Surgery: Brian’s Story
Yesterday was my last day seeing my patients at the licensed, advanced stem-cell-culture site in Grand Cayman. It’s been a great week, capped off with a heartfelt thank you from a young medical student we have been able to help through the years. His thanks are really the quintessential reason every doctor is a doctor—to help…read more Removing Hip Bone Spurs in Hip Impingement Surgery No Better Than Doing Nothing
Hip impingement as a diagnosis freaks people out. They can envision that bone spurs on their hips are wearing away cartilage with every single move. It’s a horrifying idea. This is despite many studies showing that loads of patients without hip pain have all sorts of MRI findings that a surgeon would operate on if…read more Hip Arthritis Getting Worse? New Research Says It Could Be the Bone
Is your hip arthritis getting worse? In addition to cartilage breakdown, your bone could also be deteriorating. A bright spot (or dark spot depending on the imaging sequence used) on the bone on MRI is called a bone marrow lesion (BML, also called a BME which means bone marrow edema). It’s an area in the…read more 5 Questions About Hip Arthroscopy for Hip Impingement
Hip arthroscopy for hip impingement or a labral tear is more invasive than you’ve been led to believe. Add to that a laundry list of side effects and the wealth of research showing poor results, especially in patients with arthritis, and you have to wonder why anyone chooses to go through it. If you are considering hip…read more Hip Replacement Materials – A Complete Guide to the Best and Worst
We like treating hip arthritis with stem cells, but unlike some other areas that we treat, hips with severe arthritis can be a little harder to treat. In those cases, we either recommend the patient move from a same day stem cell procedure to a cultured stem cell procedure, or if the arthritis is very…read more
Hip Labrum Surgery Complications: Making the Hip Unstable…
This week while practicing down in Grand Cayman I evaluated a professional ballerina from Germany who regrettably is having issues with recovery due to hip labrum surgery complications. In her case, she was diagnosed with CAM and pincer impingement and since having these bone spurs removed has never been able to get back to high level…read more 
