Anand loves football.- He plays football matches regularly with his friends.
- During one of his matches, he developed sudden severe pain in his groin while kicking the ball .
- He continued playing but had severe pain by next day.
- He was limping and decided to rest for 2 days .
- Pain continues and he consulted me.
- After thorough examination and special x-rays were done.
- His x-rays showed he had impingement of hip bones resulting in bony outgrowth and pain.
- He needed surgery to remove the extra bone.
- Open surgery was too damaging and involved cutting important hip muscles and dislocating the joint! This would have caused lot of stiffness and disability to him.
- We performed a hip arthroscopic (key hole) surgery to visualized the joint.
- He had a tear of his labrum cartilage also.
- Therefore, the labrum cartilage was repaired first and then the bony outgrowth was removed.
- He was put on crutches for 3 weeks.
- Post surgery was comfortable and he returned playing to football again after 4 months of supervised exercise program.
