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Hip surgery loses a bet

Paul Ingraham • ARCHIVEDMicroblog posts are archived and rarely updated. In contrast, most long-form articles on PainScience.com are updated regularly over the years.

Fresh science! Arthroscopic hip surgery is crazy popular… but it probably doesn’t work, or not very well. Zero difference when compared to physical therapy in 80 patients over 2 years. Laaaame. See Mansell et al.

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