Weight Bearing Status Post-hip Arthroscopy

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH · Feb 7, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

The study will be conducted at UPMC St. Margaret's Hip Preservation Program. Consented patients who undergo acetabular labral repair and femoroplasty will be included in randomization of weight-bearing status. Two separate protocols will be created to indicate weight bearing status, either WBAT immediately post-op or FFWB immediately post-op, to distribute to rehabilitation staff to ensure compliance. Immediately after the surgical procedure, the surgeon will be blinded and a randomized pamphlet with post-operative instructions with weight bearing education will be given to PACU nursing sta...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Age\>= 12 years
• • Diagnoses: femoroacetabular impingement and hip labral tears.
• • Surgical procedures performed: Hip arthroscopy with femoroplasty and labral repair.
• • Surgery completed at UPMC Children's or UPMC St. Margaret's Hospital
• • unilateral and bilateral hip patients
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • MSK tumor-related FAI or dysplasia
• • generalized hypermobility
• • revision surgeries