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A variety of surgical procedures exist to address these injuries, including restoration of articular cartilage injuries with autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI), osteochondral allograft transplantation (OCA) and reparative marrow-stimulation techniques, such as microfracture.

When surgery is considered for a hip labral tear, the most common way to address this is through arthroscopic treatment.

For patients with femoroacetabular impingement, surgical treatment of labral pathology with femoral osteoplasty yielded better long-term outcomes and survivorship compared with arthroscopy alone.

The labrum is a type of cartilage that surrounds the socket of ball-and-socket joints. A labrum is found in both the shoulder and the hip joint.

Results presented here showed female athletes with femoroacetabular impingement had significant improvements in patient-reported outcome scores and a high rate of return to sport after hip arthroscopy.

The 6-foot-1 guard had arthroscopy a type of minimally invasive surgery on both hips last fall to relieve so-called hip impingement. The condition is ...

Results showed patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis who were released to unrestricted activity at 4 to 8 weeks after posterior spinal fusion had high return to sport rates with a rapid return to baseline performance levels.

Osgood-Schlatter disease is a painful condition that affects the knees of growing adolescents.

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), commonly called brittle bone disease, is a disease that causes a defect in the production of collagen protein.

A buckle fracture is a common injury in children. Kids have softer, more flexible bones than adults do. With a buckle fracture, one side of the bone "buckles" on itself and does not affect the other side of the bone. This is also called an incomplete fracture.