Subjective Assessment of the Adolescent and Infant Hip

Background Information The morphology of the hip joint from birth to adolescence is a progressive process influenced by  load and an individual’s genetic composition (Hogervorst, Boumer, De Boer, & de Vos, 2011) . Variations in normal morphology of the proximal femur and acetabulum in addition to excessive loads can lay the foundations for chondral and…