You are listening to Episode 67, what is hip dysplasia?

And what do we do when it happens?

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Welcome to this week's episode.

I am so excited to welcome Dr. Tim Schreider.

He is the medical director of the HIP program

at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

And we're going to be talking all about hip dysplasia today.

Thank you so much for joining us Dr. Schreider.

Hi. Thank you for having me. I'm really excited that you were able to join us. Hip

dysplasia is actually something I obviously think is really important, but not a lot of parents

know about it until their child is diagnosed with it. So I've been getting a lot of questions

from my social media following. I take care of patients myself with hip dysplasia. So I'm really

happy you could join us today. Great. So first of all, I wanted to talk about what exactly is hip

dysplasia? What does that mean? And how common is it? Hip dysplasia is any abnormality between

the femoral head and the acetabulum or the ball and the socket part of the hip joint.

It's really a catch phrase. It's a there's a continuum. There are very mild forms of hip dysplasia

where on x-ray or ultrasound or by MRI, there's some structural abnormalities, but nothing can

be detected on physical examination. There's hip is not dislocated and then it can go all the way

through to hips that are loose or unstable or dislocated where you can physically feel the hip

slipping in and out of socket. And the other question about how common it is really depends on how

you define it. So some of these really subtle things are very common in newborns. One in 10 newborns

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