What is Hip Arthroscopy?

Hip Arthroscopy is a revolutionary, minimally invasive procedure that is aimed at correcting many common injuries to the hip. Typically for younger, active patients, this procedure is designed to get patients back to their active lifestyle quickly and safely. Some procedures commonly performed with Hip Arthroscopy are:

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Watch a KOIN 6 news story about Hip Arthroscopy, featuring the work Dr. Wagner is doing to help young adults with hip pain.

About Dr. Wagner

A particular area of interest for Dr. Wagner is ‘Hip Pain in the Young Adult.’ He has spent a great deal of time and energy devoted to this increasingly prevalent topic.

Due to the increasing activity levels of our younger population, more and more hip injuries are being seen and diagnosed in adults under the age of 50. Dr. Wagner’s main concern is correcting the problem and getting these patients back to their pre-injury level.

Some of the increasingly common injuries are tears of the labrum and femoro-acetabular impingement. Labral tears have been treated in the past with trimming out the torn part of the labrum, but Dr. Wagner prefers to try and repair the labrum back to where it was torn from. This restores the patient’s normal anatomy and gives them the greatest chance at preventing early arthritis or other problems with the hip in the future. Femoro-acetabular impingement is usually from a mis-shaped hip joint that can cause cartilage/labral damage, and hip pain if left untreated. This is treated with reshaping the hip to prevent the impingement of the femoral head on the acetabulum.

Until recently, these procedures were done through large incisions, and required cutting the bone and dislocating the hip. However, Dr. Wagner has been trained in doing these procedures through minimally invasive surgery by using a small camera placed inside the hip joint. This is called Hip Arthroscopy and is similar to the surgery done for knee injuries. This minimally invasive approach decreases the patient’s rehabilitation time and also some of the complications associated with the larger open approach.

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