Marc Philippon
Comments: 0 - Date: March 24th, 2012 - Categories: School of Medicine
Marc Philippon
Dr. Marc Philippon, and his fellow orthopedic hip surgeons from The Steadman Clinic in Vail, CO believe that most hockey players and other sports professionals are very prone to having scourge, long-term hip injuries. Based on their studies, these injuries can manifest at a very young age and can result to devastating effects when triggered by strenuous activities such as twisting and rotating. They are now doing extensive research to find out what age can these injuries start to form and what are the possible measures to avoid such instance from pushing through and from becoming severely damaging.
Dr. Marc Philippon is a world renowned orthopedic hip surgeon that is why it is not surprising that the most professional hockey stars from every part of the world come to him constantly. In fact, The Steadman Clinic office has a display of jerseys worn by no less than the most popular hockey players worldwide. Paul Kariya, Mario Lemieux, and more sports professionals visit Dr. Marc Philippon for a common reason to have the hip injury that they, and a lot of others like them, experience be treated.
Leading surgeons alongside Dr. Marc Philippon believe a common hip injury happens when hockey players are still growing. When left untreated, that condition known as femoroacetabular impingement can result to arthritis over time. Dr. Philippon and the other doctors at the Steadman Philippon Research Institute in Vail are working to determine at what age this specific hip injury is most likely to occur. Hopefully, the result of this research will provide young hockey players a better understanding on how they can prevent such injury.
Hockey players tend to begin training at a very early stage in their life with the aim of becoming a professional one day. Specialists are becoming keenly worried that these early players will become a generation of kids who will ultimately face hip arthritis. When the same sport is played daily for many years, the chance to have lifelong injuries are greater.
Dr. Marc Philippon said, the local hockey players went through M.R.I. and a physical examinations including hip strength tests. To ascertain if skating stride could possibly be causing the problem, we will have them run through the same tests in the next two and four years. We will be watching the risk progress very closely in order to find out when the problem persists and how we can modify such, he said. He hopes the research can lead to guidelines on training, how many games kids should play without upping the injury risk and how to detect hip problems earlier.