Femoroacetabular impingement as a cause of hip pain in young adult patients. Diagnosis and treatment methods using arthroscopy

Abstract

Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is not well recognized clinical problem and one of the possible cause of hip pain in young adult patients in 3rd and 4th decade of life. This phenomenon was described by Reinhold Ganz et al. in 2003. Since than many interesting oryginal papers about FAI were published by orthopedic surgeons, radiologists and physiotherapists.

In this paper we do reasearch of the avaible literature, we presented information about epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment in particular taking into account hip arthroscopy.