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Sports Medicine
intermediate
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Femoroacetabular Impingement

Hip Disorders

A 28-year-old professional soccer player presents with insidious onset anterior groin pain worsening with prolonged sitting and activity. He reports catching and clicking sensations with hip flexion. Examination reveals pain with flexion, adduction, and internal rotation (FADIR test positive). Radiographs show a pistol-grip deformity of the femoral head-neck junction with an alpha angle of 65 degrees. Regarding femoroacetabular impingement (FAI):

Mark each as TRUE or FALSE

A

Cam impingement results from abnormal morphology of the femoral head-neck junction (asphericity, dec...

B

Pincer impingement results from acetabular overcoverage (retroversion, coxa profunda, protrusio); th...

C

Cam impingement is caused by acetabular abnormality; pincer is caused by femoral abnormality; cam is...

D

Clinical presentation includes anterior groin pain (C-sign), pain with prolonged sitting, mechanical...

E

Conservative treatment includes activity modification, physiotherapy, and NSAIDs; surgical options i...

Answer the questions to see explanations

Click T (True) or F (False) for each option