Day of Surgery
Once inside, Dr. Mei-Dan found an area of cartilage damage with underlying subchondral bone defect. He performed small micro fracture to promote cartilage healing and smoothed out the cartilage in the area. This defect was not picked up by any of my imaging studies and the only reason he found it was because he was "searching" for it based on my clinical presentation and a slight artifact on CT. He believes this defect is most likely the root cause behind all of my symptoms. However, just to be safe, he fixed all other structural abnormalities while he was in there since I have tended to be a bit of an enigma throughout all of this. Interestingly enough, he found that a portion of bone on the acetabulum (socket portion of joint) had actually grown under and around one of the previous anchors, leading to a protrusion of bone and labrum. This protrusion may have been acting like a pincer-type irritation of the surrounding tissues- but especially the labrum, as there was evidence of peripheral tearing/fraying. As such, the anchor was surgically removed from this site, the extra bone growth was shaved down and the labrum repaired. I also had a bursectomy of the iliopsoas bursa due to chronic inflammation and, to finish, he closed the anterior hip capsule and tightened this closure to make up for my inherent collagen laxity and to prevent me from over-stretching it (I was a dancer and figure skater... I can't help it!). All in all, he seemed quite pleased with how things went! So fingers crossed this is the last time this hip finds herself up on an operating table :)
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