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

Summary: 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 <p>You can follow Damian on Twitter @DamianGriffin and @WarwickOrtho or reach him on damian.griffin@warwick.ac.uk</p>