Tag: Hip Osteoarthritis

Femoroacetabular Impingement: Morphology Does Not Equal Pathology

August 21, 2017January 1, 2019by John Snyder, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS3 Comments

Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome (FAIS) was described as early as 19361 and has been drastically increasing in popularity over the past two decades2. As this condition has become more respected amongst the medical community, the number of patients identified with FAIS was significantly increased3. With this increased recognition, there has also been a markedly rising number…

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Hip Osteoarthritis: Efficacy of Manual Therapy

September 24, 2012January 5, 2019by John Snyder, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS6 Comments

According to the Clinical Guidelines for Hip Osteoarthritis (OA) published in 2009, the prevalence of hip OA is between 0.4% and 27%. The most common complaint of individuals diagnosed with this debilitating disorder is hip and/or groin pain. Additionally, there is a concomitant decrease in the availability of ROM at the involved hip, which is…

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