• DOI:10.1097/NOR.0000000000000045
Corpus ID: 22837401

Femoroacetabular Impingement in Athletes

@article{Hessel2014FemoroacetabularII,
  title={Femoroacetabular Impingement in Athletes},
  author={Joy A. Hessel},
  journal={Orthopaedic Nursing},
  year={2014},
  volume={33},
  pages={137–139}
}

• Joy A. Hessel
• Published 2014
• Medicine
• Orthopaedic Nursing

Besides professional sports, what do Alex Rodriguez, Michelle Kwan, and Greg Norman have in common? They all suffered from a condition called femoroacetabular impingement, or FAI. First identified by Dr. Reinhold Ganz, an orthopaedic surgeon in the mid-1990s, FAI has gained recognition in recent years as more professional athletes have been diagnosed with this condition. Characterized as a condition involving an abnormal morphological shape of the femoral head (cam type deformity) or acetabulum… Expand

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