Speaker: Dean Matsuda, MD, FAAOS, Moderator, ICL 312: It's Not Always Femoroacetabular Impingement
Dean Matsuda, MD, FAAOS: Hi, I'm Dean Matsuda from the Los Angeles area and I'm affiliated with Premier Hip Arthroscopy in private practice.
Dean Matsuda, MD, FAAOS: Hip arthroscopy has been the most rapidly growing orthopaedic procedure, largely due to the diagnosis and successful treatment of femoroacetabular impingement. But a real danger exists if we ignore other pathologic conditions that can masquerade as FAI and are often treatable often with minimally invasive techniques.
Dean Matsuda, MD, FAAOS: This ICL has had a broad application. We've had attendees from not only sports medicine and hip specialists but adult recon, trauma, pediatrics, and general orthopaedics, physical therapists, PAs. And I think that the most satisfying outcome is to expand the perspective of the attendees so that they can be aware of and pick up some of these pathologic conditions that again are often treatable. If they are not the ones rendering the treatment in itself, they may be able to give good referrals to those that do perform those types of surgeries. That itself is very satisfying.
Dean Matsuda, MD, FAAOS: I believe this is the fourth year we're putting on this instructional course lecture. We've been very fortunate that it's been popular and well attended. I think this is in large part to the fact that the faculty are experienced educators. They engage the audience and we also have responded to feedback from the audience to help expand and focus our topics. And we think that has improved the product ultimately. Again, we welcome you to this ICL. We hope that you will leave it not thinking that everything is an FAI nail that needs to be treated with an arthroscopic hammer and that your expanded knowledge base on all these other potentially treatable conditions will benefit your patients.
Dean Matsuda, MD, FAAOS: The AAOS meeting is the epitome of one stop shopping to get your CME credits and exposure to a broad base of orthopaedic knowledge, both general and very specialized. Perhaps most, it's a chance to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones in an environment that's conducive to orthopaedic education.
