Surgery for FAI is Better Than Physical Therapy?

Is surgery for hip impingement better than exercise or physical therapy? A 2020 meta-analysis says that arthroscopic surgery for hip impingement is better than physical therapy. If you have the femoroacetabular impingement diagnosis, you need to watch this video for the full picture.

LINKS
Main Paper: 2020 Nonoperative Treatment for Femoroacetabular Impingement: A Systematic Review of the Literature - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1016/j.pmrj.2013.02.005
Paper #1 - 2019 -Arthroscopic hip surgery compared with physiotherapy and activity modification for the treatment of symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement: multicentre randomised controlled trial - https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l185
Responses to Paper #1: https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l185/rapid-responses
Paper #2 - 2018 Paper - Hip arthroscopy versus best conservative care for the treatment of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (UK FASHIoN): a multicentre randomised controlled trial - https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2818%2931202-9
Paper #3 - Arthroscopic Surgery or Physical Therapy for Patients With Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial With 2-Year Follow-up https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29443538/
Shoulder Impingement Surgery vs. Placebo: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30647053/
🎥Shoulder Impingement Myths: https://youtu.be/z9a3RWzGX0o

MORE FAI RESOURCES
Hip Impingement Tests are BS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efo191J-bzg
FAI Surgery Success Rates - https://www.thefaifix.com/fai-surgery-success-rate/
FAI bone shapes have no correlation with pain - https://www.thefaifix.com/bones-dont-cause-fai-pain
FAI and development of arthritis - https://www.thefaifix.com/fai-does-not-lead-to-severe-arthritis
Pinching or Jamming or Painful Hard End Stretches - https://www.uprighthealth.com/blog/fix-muscle-imbalance-dysfunction

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ABOUT THIS VIDEO
Is surgery for FAI better than physical therapy? Does physical therapy or surgery work better fix hip impingement? Papers like this 2020 meta analysis claim that surgery works better for hip pain sufferers, but when you dig deeper into the literature, the truth becomes a lot more clear. A web of bias and financial incentives skew orthopedic research on FAI to make surgery look far better than it actually is.

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