Are you considering a hip injection to test for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI)? Has a hip surgeon told you he can use a hip injection to diagnose FAI or a labral tear with certainty? In this article, you’ll discover the truth about hip injections for FAI (and related hip joint pathology like labral tears). Why get a […]
Continue readingIf you have hip pain, and you’ve been told you have femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), you may have had a series of movement tests (called “special tests” in medical jargon) done to confirm your diagnosis.If you have hip pain and are wondering if you there are good tests for femoroacetabular impingement that will tell you if […]
Continue readingIf you have been told you have femoroacetabular impingement (FAI or hip impingement), you may have been told that surgery is the only way to relieve your hip pain. The doctors you’ve spoken with may sound confident that surgery will solve your problems. In this article we’ll be looking at why you may want to be […]
Continue readingWhy are hip labral tears important to talk about?Hip pain is becoming an extremely common complaint in this age of desk work and constant sitting. It’s also becoming very common for people to get the diagnosis of a hip labral tear.But what does it mean to tell people they have hip labral tears?What do doctors […]
Continue readingWhen people are considering surgery for femoroacetabular impingement, they often hear some extraordinarily positive predictions of success. I had one client say his surgeon said it was 99% certain that the surgery would solve his hip problems. I’ve had people email me from around the world say their surgeons are 90% certain that the surgery […]
Continue readingMaybe you’ve been told you have femoroacetabular impingement. Maybe you suspect it’s what’s causing your hip pain. Let’s take a look an honest look at the theory behind femoroacetabular impingement and the science behind it. You’ll soon discover that femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. An overview of femoroacetabular impingement The medical theory […]
Continue readingFemoracetabular impingement – also known as hip impingement – has become the go-to diagnosis for anyone who has hip pain and range of motion restriction. It is a diagnosis that was not even around until 2003 (when a group of surgeons proposed it as an explanation for pain, range of motion problems, and even arthritis), but its prevalence has exploded […]
Continue readingWhy am I talking about hip injections? In a previous post, I shared an orthopedic physician’s objections to what we’ve been talking about with FAI, and in a follow up I talked about hip injections and their reliability and usefulness (spoiler: they don’t seem reliable or particularly useful). In case you missed the original YouTube comment […]
Continue readingIf you suspect you have hip pain from feomoroacetabular impingement, you may be considering a hip injection. Should you get a hip injection for FAI? I’ve been doing a lot of research on FAI as part of my duties as one of the co-creators of the FAI Fix. In a recent YouTube comment, an orthopedic physician angrily […]
Continue readingA while back, I made this video to provide a preliminary outline of my ideas about hip pain and the recently created diagnosis of femoroacetabular impingement and the increasingly common surgical treatment. I received a comment on that video from someone purporting to be a physician practicing in orthopedics that I thought would be very important to […]
Continue readingA while back, I started looking into femoroacetabular impingement because I started reading about it and hearing about in hockey circles. When I started hearing what the symptoms were, I realized, “HEY! I had those problems! But I’ve managed to get out of those problems with proper stretching and very careful strength training… I wrote […]
Continue readingDo you ever feel a pinch in your hip when you sit down for an extended period of time? Is it difficult for you to lift your knee towards your chest past 90 degrees? Do you ever feel clicking in your hip when you bend down for a squat? If any of these painful feelings […]
Continue readingAs I continue to go through a long list of research studies on femoral acetabular impingement (FAI), I keep coming across studies that come to conclusions that are rather shaky. Take this study from the September 2008 Journal of Arthritis and Rheumatology (Nonspherical femoral head shape (pistol grip deformity), neck shaft angle, and risk of […]
Continue readingI got asked a question by someone on a Facebook support group for people who are suffering with femoral acetabular impingement (FAI). I do have a question about muscles that need strengthening (as glutes) but that are painful because full of trigger points…same for muscles that need stretching but are full of trigger points. What […]
Continue readingA while back, I wrote a long post about femoral acetabular impingement (FAI) and how I think the diagnosis sounds shaky beyond belief. I presented you with some research evidence that showed just how ridiculous it is to base a diagnosis off radiological findings. I also made a video that talked about FAI and how, […]
Continue readingI recently watched Coach Kevin Neeld’s DVD set on mobility. He’s an intelligent coach and trainer with education in a great variety of perspectives who focuses on training hockey players. The DVD set covers mobility screens that he and his staff use to train a large population of pro and semi-pro ice hockey players who […]
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