- Diagnosis
- symptoms relieved with intra-articular injections
- arthroscopy is the gold standard for diagnosis
- Nonoperative
- rest, NSAIDS, physical therapy, steroid injections
- indicated as a first line of treatment
- Operative
- arthroscopic repair
- indications
- severre symptoms that have failed to improve with nonoperative modalities
- technique
- can be debrided or repaired depending on extent of tear
- underlaying hip pathology (e.g. FAI) should also be addressed at time of surgery
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