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Surgery may be best option for hip impingement syndrome


 

REPORTING FROM OARSI 2018


“One of the hopes of the trial’s team is that, with the long-term follow-up, we might be able to get data at 5 and 10 years on things like hip osteoarthritis in these patients,” she said.

The study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research. Dr. Foster had no financial relationships or commercial interests to disclose.

SOURCE: Griffin DR et al. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2018:26(1):S24-25. Abstract 28

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