Sports Medicine

Young athletes warned about rare but serious football injury

Published in Health and Medicine Week, August 4th, 2003

While some injuries are inevitable in any sport, physicians caution young athletes about a subtle but serious football injury to the hip that often goes unrecognized.

Claude T. Moorman III, MD, director of sports medicine, Duke University Medical Center, has reported on traumatic posterior hip subluxation that is a rare but potentially devastating injury that mimics the common sprain. Subluxation is a partial dislocation where, within the joint, the "ball" is not fully out of the "socket." Properly diagnosed and treated, most patients eventually return to unrestricted activity.

"But up to 25% of patients may develop the complication of osteonecrosis,...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2003-08-04)

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