The Warwick Agreement on the management of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome with Damian Griffin

Professor Damian Griffin talks about the Warwick Agreement, an international consensus on the management of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome. This podcast brings you right up to date on the most current thinking about hip impingement or FAI. 0.38 Aim of the consensus 1.36 Consensus methodology 2.26 What is FAI syndrome? Symptoms, clinical signs, and imaging findings. 3.40 How should FAI syndrome be diagnosed? 6.26 What is the appropriate treatment for FAI syndrome? 8.26 What is the prognosis of FAI syndrome? 10.23 How should someone with an asymptomatic hip, with cam or pincer morphology, be managed? 11.53 What research is now needed? 14.15 How is this new definition of FAI syndrome going to influence clinical care? @DamianGriffin #WarwickAgreement 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. Damian’s passion is the diagnosis and treatment of hip and groin pain in young adults. His clinical practice and research focus on joint-preserving surgery for early arthritis, hip arthroscopy, the management of femoroacetabular impingement and sport injuries of the hip. He runs the largest national referral service for young and active people with hip pain in the UK, based at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, and for private patients and elite athletes in London and Coventry (www.hiparthroscopyclinic.co.uk). Damian leads a research team based at the University of Warwick, with a portfolio of hip research. In particular he is 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 You can follow Damian on Twitter @DamianGriffin and @WarwickOrtho or reach him on [email protected]