title: Biomechanics of the human hip.
abstract: The hip joint is one of the body's most amenable joints to a lowering of its interarticular pressure by surgery. It has been shown that such a lowering of pressure can predictably have a significant amelioratory effect on osteoarthrotic degeneration. A workable understanding of the biomechanics of the hip is essential in the planning of any meaningful orthopedic intervention to attempt to delay or reverse hip joint degeneration.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001717:Birds; D005272:Femur Neck / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009038:Motion; D009132:Muscles / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology