What is Hip Dysplasia?

Hip dysplasia is a condition. Congenital hip dislocation and hip dysplasia are also collectively referred to as popping hips. Hip dysplasia The hip joint is a "ball and socket" joint. A variety of reasons can affect your baby's hip joint development.

Hip dysplasia

Hip dysplasia is a condition. Congenital hip dislocation and hip dysplasia are also collectively referred to as popping hips. Hip dysplasia The hip joint is a "ball and socket" joint. A variety of reasons can affect your baby's hip joint development.

Western Medicine Name

Hip dysplasia

Affiliated Department

Surgery-Orthopedics

Contagious

Non-contagious

Whether to enter health insurance

Yes

Hip dysplasia The hip joint is a "ball and socket" joint. A variety of reasons can affect your baby's hip joint development. The causes of babies popping hips include: sometimes the spherical femoral head is not well embedded in the socket-shaped acetabulum and is displaced; sometimes the femoral head is in the acetabulum, but it easily slips in and out; or Too shallow leads to easy dislocation of the hip joint.

Hip dysplasia

Newborns often do not see any symptoms of hip dysplasia. The doctor who examines the baby after the baby is born may give him a special hip test: separate the baby's legs, bend and straighten it.

If the baby makes a "click" sound when the hip joint moves, it may indicate that the baby's bilateral femoral head (the upper end of the thigh bone) may slide in or out of the pelvic joint socket. This is called clinical hip instability. Babies with these manifestations at birth do not feel pain or discomfort, and often do not need treatment, they will grow up well.

Some babies have normal hip tests at birth, but they do not develop properly. The initial performance is as follows:

One leg looks slightly shorter than the other, and there may be excess skin wrinkles on one thigh or hip. When changing your baby's diaper, you may find that the hip joints on one side do not stretch as well as the other.

In rare cases, you may not notice that your baby has congenital hip dysplasia or dislocation when you start to walk, showing that you walk a little stingy, or you may walk with your toes on the affected side.

If you notice any of the above problems with your baby, take him to the hospital in time. Doctors not only diagnose hip joint dysplasia through physical examination, but may also use B-ultrasound and X-ray to observe hip joint development, in order to find out early if there is a problem with the baby.

The earlier the hip dislocation is treated, the more effective it is, because the baby's hip joint develops fastest within 1 year of age, and early correction, most babies can fully develop normally.

If the congenital hip joint development problem can be found within 1 year of age, it can usually be cured with splint. The splint can keep the baby's hip joint in the correct position and develop normally.

If the hip problem is not discovered until the baby starts walking, it will be difficult to treat. Sometimes it is necessary to fix the hip joint with plaster to fix the femoral head firmly in the ball-and-socket joint. Or the doctor needs to make a small incision in the baby's groin to relax some tendons. It is also possible that the baby's hip joint needs surgery, and the femoral head is safely placed in the acetabulum. The baby usually needs plaster to fix it after the operation.

For babies with congenital hip dislocation and hip dysplasia, no matter what kind of treatment is used, they need to pay attention to review in a long time to ensure the normal development of the hip joint, so as to achieve the best effect of hip development therapy .