WELCOME TO THIS PHD HIP AND GROIN TWITTER THREAD🙋
*PhD of Pim van Klij
*The development of the non-perfect hip in young athletes
*Defense passed at 10th of March 2021 ✔️
*Promotor & co-promotor: Prof. Dr. @janverhaar & Dr. @RintjeAgricola

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This Twitter thread will summarise main findings of this thesis. Highly appreciated when retweeted, liked or wehen to comment/tag colleagues.

FULL PDF: https://www.orthopeden.org/downloads/866/proefschrift-pim-van-klij.pdf
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INTRODUCTION (2/4)
*Cam morphology: bone anterolateral head-neck junction
- Tilt deformity by Murray (1965)
- Pistol grip deformity by Stulberg (1975) 🔫
- Nowadays cam morphology by Griffin (2016)
https://www.birpublications.org/doi/pdf/10.1259/0007-1285-38-455-810
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INTRODUCTION (4/4)
*Cam morphology associations:
- With symptoms unclear
- Limited ROM (IR and flexion)?
*Pincer morphology: global or focal
- Several measurements
- Heterogeneous definitions and cut-off values: prevalence unsure
https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2018.7816
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Implementation normal values ‘in my opinion’ (2/2)
- Motivates players for extra training adductors
- Monitor progression rehab and treatment effect
- Creates sport-, gender- and level specific values
- RTP values in future?
- However: group-based values, not individual
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CHAPTER 4: CLASSIFYING CAM MORPHOLOGY (1/2)
*To remember:
- SR with 15 studies about alpha angle (AA) threshold for cam morphology 🦴
- AA threshold by ROC curve, bimodal distribution, 9⃣5⃣% reference interval

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CHAPTER 4: CLASSIFYING CAM MORPHOLOGY (2/2)
*Take home:
- Thresholds between 58-93° in males, 58-94 in females
- CONCLUSION: non-sex specific AA ≥ 60° most appropriate 🏳️‍🌈
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2325967120938312 > OPEN!🔓
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CHAPTER 6: PARAMETERS ASSOCIATED WITH AND PREDICTIVE FOR CAM
*Take home:
- No radiographic/clinical measure predicted cam ✖️
- Coxa vara, higher EE + limited IR simultaneously develops with cam ✔️
- Acetabular morphology not associated ✖️
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00167-020-06282-0.pdf 🔓
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CHAPTER 7: THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CAM AND CLINICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
*Key messages: 😎
- (Large) cam associated with pain (yes/no), but not with HAGOS: relevant?😵
- Cam presence, size and duration: limited flexion (6°) and IR (3-6°)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/sms.13660 OPEN!🔓
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CHAPTER 8: PREVALENCE OF CAM AND PINCER MORPHOLOGY AND FUTURE HIP OA
To remember:
- Cam & pincer: highly prevalent general population
- Prevalence depends on: age, sex, ethnicity, athletic activity, symptoms 😖
- OA: cam has OR 4-10, pincer not
https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2018.7816🗝️
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CHAPTER 10: GENERAL DISCUSSION (2/9)
Co-authored consensus papers about hip-related pain, young middle aged active adults:
Impellizeri: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/14/848.long (sleuteltje dicht)
@JoanneLKemp: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/9/504.long (sleuteltje dicht)
@MikeReiman: scan QR code!
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Wooohoo, you already made it to#Thread21, and you’re still reading!
Awesome. Still some ahead, so please keep it up 😎
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CHAPTER 10/11: GENERAL DISCUSSION/PERSPECTIVES (9/9)
*Future ideas:
-12.5y follow-up Feyenoord cohort (age 28): expect symptoms/early OA signs?⚽️
-Clear terminology + cut-offs pincer
-Diagnostic criteria cam morphology
-Optimalisation conservative/surgical treatment 🍴
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FINAL CONCLUSION PHD
- Normal values hip muscle strength, ROM, HAGOS stable over season
- Cam develops during growth📈
- Coxa vara, high EE simultaneously with cam🍗
- Cam: no lower HAGOS, but limited flexion and IR
- Cam: higher risk for hip OA (4-10x)😿
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It took a lot of time, motivation and effort to finalize this PhD. This would not have been possible by the amazing supervising of @RintjeAgricola and @janverhaar. As we all know, @RintjeAgricola is one of the founders of this field of expertise, massive appreciation!🙏
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Also @AdamWeirSports played a major role in my PhD (groin expert!), thanks a lot! I will certainly forget to mention some, in general I would like to thank our LaTrobe friends ( @JHeerey, @JoanneLKemp, @AndreaBMosler), @igorjrtak and @DrPaulDijkstra for all meetings!
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