Hip Exam and Interventions Flashcards
What are the 3 classifications for hip
- Arthritis (OA)
- Non-arthritis
- Regional movement differentiation
Remote/medical referral hip diagnoses
- Femoral head & neck fractures
- Avascular necrosis femoral head & neck
- Colon cancer
- Inguinal hernia
- Visceral referral
Most likely diagnoses for the hip
- Labral tear
- Femoral acetabular impingement (FAI)
- Glute med tendinopathy
- Greater trochanter bursitis
Anterior hip pain possibilities
- Referred: intra-abdominal or intra-pelvic
- Extra-articular: flexor tendon
- Intra-articular: FAI, labral tear, femoral neck stress Fx, AVN, OA, hip Fx
Posterior hip pain possibilities
- Intra-abdominal
- Intra-pelvic
- Deep gluteal syndrome
- Ischiofemoral impingement
- Lumbar spine or muscle
- SIJ pain
- Proximal hamstring tendinopathy/tear
Later hip pain possibilities
- Greater trochanteric pain syndrrome
- Bursitis
- Glute med tendinopathy
- IT band: external snapping
AVN illness script
- Trauma: dislocation, femoral head Fx, Cancer
- Non-traumatic: ETOH (alcohol), steroid abuse, obesity, smoking
- Gait abnormalities with loading
- ROM limitations
- Testing: any WB, possibly with hip compression (Scour)
Femoral neck stress Fx illness script
- Females more affected than males
- Athletes or those with poor nutrition & lifestyle activities
- Gait: loading more than AVN
- May not have ROM limitations but point tenderness to palpation
- Testing: Fulcrum, Hop, Full extension
Outcome measures for hip pathology
- Harris Hip Score: Pain, Gait, ADLs, Sport sub scales, ROM
- WOMAC (Western Ontario & McMaster Universities Arthritis Index): more OA specific, physical function, pain, stiffness; higher scores indicate worse Sx
- International hip outcome tool (i-HOT): for younger active populations, uses VAS, appropriate for activity level ≥4 on modified Tegnar Activity Scale
- Patient Specific Functional Scale
- FABQ
- LEFS
- Ostwestry
Differentiation sequence before testing the hip
- After SERIOUS pathology clear AND after clear for femoral Fx/stress Fx
- Rule out lumbar spine: repeated motions & neurodynamicis (SLR/Slump)
- Rule out pelvic girdle pain: Thigh thrust
- Finally the HIP TESTS
Differential diagnosis of the hip
- Lumbosacral spine pathology
- Nerve entrapment (lateral femoral cutaneous, obturator)
- Hip osteoarthrosis
- Iliopsoas tendinitis/bursitis
- Adductor strain
- Obturator internus strain
- Inguinal hernia
- Athletic pubalgia (sports hernia)
- Osteonecrosis of femoral head
- Stress fracture (proximal femur or pelvic)
- Avulsion injury (sartorius or rectus femoris tendon)
- Myositis ossificans
- Heterotopic ossification of hip joint
- Neoplasm (benign or malignant)
- Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Osteomyelitis
- Psoas abscess
- Septic arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Prostatitis
- Metabolic bone disease
- Urogenital disorders
Occurs age 30-50 from extra loading or Non-Trauma like ETOH (alcohol) or steroids (illness script)
- AVN (Avascular Necrosis)
Occurs in Pre-Teen and Teenagers especially those with obesity (illness script)
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Skinny Jeans, Tool Belt or a Gun Belt (illness script)
- Peripheral nerve entrapments (Lateral cutaneous nerve); Meralgia Peresthetica AKA Skinny Jeans Syndrome
Occurs in childhood age 4-10 usually male (illness script)
- Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
Occurs during childbirth – noted shortly after (child not the mom) (illness script)
- Congenital Hip Dislocation