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Extra-articular Hip Conditions and Sports Injuries

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The hip is a dynamic joint that has been implicated in sports injury. While the hip joint, and more specifically the interplay between the acetabulum and the femoral head/neck junction, has been implicated in the injury of the joint, there are also significant injuries that occur outside of the joint. In this chapter, we review some of the more common extra-articular injuries of the hip in the athlete. Hip pathology can be viewed in a layered approach, with the layers involving osteochondral, inert, dynamic (muscular), and neural pathology. We subdivide the muscular pathology into anterior, lateral, posterior, and medial regions.

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Davenport, K.L., Moley, P.J., Kelly, B.T. (2014). Extra-articular Hip Conditions and Sports Injuries. In: Kim, YJ., Mamisch, T. (eds) Hip Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1668-5_9

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