Arthroscopy is reported to be a common orthopaedic procedure that is used to diagnose and treat problems in joints. The word arthroscopy comes from two Greek words: ‘artho’ meaning “joint”, and ‘scope’ meaning “look”.
Arthroscopy is undertaken using keyhole surgery, where a thin ‘scope’ is pushed into the joint (arthro-joint) to visualise the structures.
Arthroscopic surgery is most commonly performed on knee and shoulder joints, and less commonly on wrist, elbow, ankle and hip. Knee and shoulder joints are more amenable to arthroscopy because they are large enough for instruments to be manipulated around.
The hip joint comprises the femoral head (ball) and acetabulum (socket) and some of the biggest muscles in the body surround the joint with large nerves and arteries passing close to it. It is because the hip joint is deeply seated and relatively inaccessible that arthroscopy of the hip is less common.
Hip arthroscopy is the use of an arthroscope to view the hip joint through tiny incisions, its purpose is to either diagnose or evaluate the damage to the hip joint or, treat certain hip problems. The progress of the arthroscope into the hip joint is guided by X-ray.
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