Instability Testing for Congenital Hip Dislocation: Knee Extension Provokes Hip Dislocation

INCIDENCE OF CONGENITAL DISLOCATION THE HIP IN SHIRAZ

During an eight month prospective study, 8240 newborns were examined for detection of congenital dislocation of the hip from Oct. 23, 1991 to June 22, 1992. On fIrst examination we found 1302 neonates (158/1000 live births) to have abnormal hips 1063 (81.6%) were prone to subluxation (subluxatable), 218 (16.81 %) prone to dislocation (dislocatable), 17 (1.3%) were dislocated and 4 (0.3%) w...

Congenital Dislocation of the Hip

be congratulated on his admirable account of the operation of Lorenz in his book 'Congenital Dislocation of the Hip.' The operation is an extremely technical one, and the ordinary practising surgeon cannot hope to be successful except in a few cases, unless he has mastered all the details of the operation and seen it performed by an expert. There can be no doubt that the disease is not sufficie...

Congenital Dislocation of the Hip

Congenital Dislocation of the Hip

The implications of a diagnosis of congenital dislocation of the hip and the importance of the role of the family physician in early detection and treatment are identified.A review of the salient clinical features of congenital dislocation of the hip is undertaken. The results of a survey carried out in the author's practice on an unusual incidence of congenital dislocated hip are reviewed.

Screening for congenital dislocation of the hip.

Unlike many examinations carried out in child health surveillance programmes, screening for congenital dislocation of the hip cannot be said to be unresearched. A selective Medline search provided over 100 papers on the screening, diagnosis, and management of the condition. From the past six years they show that the early identification of the 15-20 children in 1000 at high risk of having insta...