Charting Pediatrics20 Mars 2018

Hip Pain in Children Diagnosis and Management (S1:E28)

In this episode, Stephanie Mayer, MD, joins us to share her insights on diagnosing hip pain in pediatric patients. We're discussing this issue from its symptoms and causes to how to manage hip pain.

Dr. Mayer is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Children's Colorado and an assistant professor of orthopedics at the CU School of Medicine.

In this episode:

The common hip pain causes to watch for in adolescents
Sports that lend themselves to hip pain
Practices for starting an evaluation of the patient and their injury
The importance of the patient history when dealing with and considering hip pain
The questions to ask, signs to look for and specifics to consider when diagnosing hip pain and differentiating between infection and oncologic hip injuries
Signs and factors possibly indicating a patient's hip pain is systemic or rheumatological and when it's time to look for Lyme disease
How to determine where hip pain originates from and the conditions to consider
The mechanical indicator that the cause of hip pain is slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
Diagnosing and addressing other causes of hip pain such as Legg-Calvé-Perthes
Discussing urgency and when it's time to refer to an orthopedic specialist
When and why it's appropriate to order an MRI early on
The central role imaging plays in determining a proper hip pain treatment and when it's the right time to order an x-ray for hip pain
The benefits of getting images of the entire hip versus radiation exposure

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