Medical Breakthroughs From Penn Medicine

A Focus on Hip Preservation in Younger Patients

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Host: Lee Freedman, MD Hip pain can be a major roadblock to an active lifestyle, and even effect activies of daily living. This is sometimes even more profound when seen in younger patients. How can we preserve hip function in younger patients, for whom replacement is not an option? In this segment, Dr. Lee Freedman speaks to Dr. Atul Kamath, Director, Center for Hip Preservation and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.