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Hip surgery loses a bet

Paul Ingraham • Mar 28, 2018 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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