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Mike Millis, M.D., Boston Children's Hospital

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Good News About OA in the Hip<br />

• Rarely idiopathic or “primary”<br />

• Mechanical nature, familiar to the orthopaedist<br />

• Treatable/preventable by mechanical means<br />

* Several joint-preserving alternatives exist<br />

• Arthroscopy<br />

• Arthrotomy<br />

* Surgical hip dislocation/osteoplasty/debridement<br />

• Realignment osteotomy(Femoral or pelvic)<br />

• (Biologic resurfacing of articular surfaces)<br />

• Combinations

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