A qualified specialist of the Rudenko Medical Center, a pediatric orthopedic traumatologist, will conduct a consultation and answer all the questions you have, during your visit to our clinic. The doctor will also make an accurate diagnosis and prescribe effective treatment.
Why does hip dysplasia occur and how does it develop?
Approximately one baby in a thousand newborns will be born with this pathological condition. Dysplasia will develop after birth also in a certain percentage of babies.
Girls suffer from dysplasia approximately 6-7 times more often than boys. Both joints can be damaged, but the left one turns out to be problematic relatively more often.
Dysplasia of the hip joints is a specific disease manifested by a violation of the congruence of the articular surfaces of the femur and acetabulum. This pathological condition is associated with connective tissue dysplasia. Therefore, the ligaments and cartilage are also damaged, which makes it difficult to cushion movements in the hip joint and causes pain and discomfort in the baby. this is manifested by crying and resistance when the parents try to spread the baby's legs to the side. Hip dysplasia is treatable, but it is extremely important to start it in time, because this disease is the main reason for the development of early arthritis of the hip joint under the age of 60. If this pathological process is not treated, it can lead to the loss of functionality of the limbs up to the point of disability of the person and the loss of his ability to walk freely.
Degrees of hips joint dysplasia. How to recognize the disease on each of them?
It is difficult for parents to on one's own recognize hipі dysplasia at the beginning of its development. For this reason, it is very important to visit scheduled examinations at pediatric orthopedic traumatologists at the Rudenko Medical Center.
They take place quarterly during the first year of life, namely in:
- 1 month - before the visit, you should do a screening ultrasound examination of the baby's hip joints and take it with you.
- 3 months
- 6 months
- 9 months
- 12 months
The next visit to the orthopedist will be in one and a half years. In the future, medical examinations will take place every year as a preventive measure and as needed or if there are complaints from the parents or the child.
It is worth noting that the asymmetry of folds on the buttocks of babies, which so often worries parents, is not a symptom or manifestation of hip dysplasia. Only a specialist can recognise pathologically changed joints from healthy ones after examination of the child and evaluation of additional examination methods.
How can we diagnose dysplasia of the hip joints?
This diagnosis can only be made by a specialist, a pediatric orthopedist-traumatologist, after an eye examination of the baby and the appointment of additional imaging methods as needed. It can be an ultrasound diagnosis or an X-ray of the hip joints. Examination by a pediatric orthopedist at the Rudenko clinic takes place in a spacious and bright office where the child will feel comfortable. The office is equipped with all the necessary gadgets for the doctor's work. After the diagnosis, the doctor, together with the parents of the small patient, will choose the most optimal treatment tactics or dynamic monitoring of the child's condition.
How is dysplasia treated and can it be cured without consequences for the future?
Yes, it is possible. Dysplasia is treatable and it is possible to achieve excellent results without any traces of pathology in the child's future. No lameness, leg asymmetry, walking crutches, or chronic back and hip pain. But all this becomes possible under the condition of timely application, effective approach and adequate effective compliance of parents and doctor.
The Rudenko clinic is a model of a combination of professionalism, European standards of diagnosis and treatment, and many years of experience of prime specialists. This allows us to work at the highest level and combine the skill of the best specialists in the world of pediatric orthopedics with a personalized approach to each tiny patient.
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