Treating hip pain including FAI syndrome. Arthroscopy or focused physio? Prof Damian Griffin Ep#337

BMJ talk medicine

Damian Griffin is the Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Warwick. He trained in Cambridge, Oxford and the United States, and worked as a Consultant in Oxford before taking up the Foundation Chair in Warwick and helping to establish Warwick Medical School. Here’s a link to his personal website: http://www.hiparthroscopyclinic.co.uk/ He was the chief investigator for the FASHioN trial, a large, multicenter randomised controlled trial of treatments for people with FAI syndrome, comparing surgery with physiotherapy-led rehabilitation:www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects/hta/1310302. He has published a major paper in the field of hip pain in one of the top sports medicine journals – The Lancet. Published @TheLancet on June 2nd. http://ow.ly/4LhQ30kvJ1u BJSM fortunate to have chatted with @DamianGriffin courtesy of @footballmed. Podcast about it with the BJSM community in two weeks - 15th June (all 2018). Previous podcast with Damian Griffin: About the FAI syndrome: http://ow.ly/oo7530kvJB5. Two years ago. Griffin DR, Dickenson EJ, O'Donnell J, et al. The Warwick Agreement on femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAI syndrome): an international consensus statement. Br J Sports Med2016;50:1169-1176. http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/19/1169 You can follow Damian on Twitter @DamianGriffin and @WarwickOrtho or reach him on [e-mail]