LOS ANGELES — Symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement developed in adolescents through athletic activities can be treated favorably with arthroscopy, according to data presented here at the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting.
“Athletic activities were implicated in the development of symptomatic [femoroacetabular impingement] FAI at a young age. This study reports favorable outcomes of arthroscopic treatment FAI among adolescent athletes,” J.W. Thomas Byrd, MD, said in his presentation. “A high portion were improved, although only 85% actually returned to sport, so return to sport may be influenced by factors other than the success of the procedure.”
Byrd and colleagues prospectively assessed 117 hips in 104 consecutive adolescents who underwent arthroscopy for symptomatic FAI. The average patient age was 16 years and there were 57 females and 47 males. Football, dance, basketball and soccer had the highest patient rate.
