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Hip surgery is popular, but is it effective? |
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011 21:54 |
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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times
It is one of the most popular operations in sports medicine. It comes in various forms, all with the same name: hip impingement or bone shaving surgery. World-renowned athletes have had the operation — the Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez had it about two years ago and the sprinter Tyson Gay had it last summer.
But some sports medicine researchers are asking: Where is the evidence that shaving bone helps?
Dr. Harry E. Rubash of Harvard Medical School says, “no one has really proven that it is uniformly helpful to the patient.”
Read more about the controversial hip surgery and the Colorado doctor who was a pioneer of the procedure.
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