臀部

Hip & Shoulder

Hip & Shoulder Treatment

Groin pain that limits your walking, or a shoulder you can no longer lift. Both are assessed the same way — send your imaging and a consultant tells you what is realistic.

Does This Sound Familiar?

  • ✓Groin or buttock pain when walking or putting on shoes
  • ✓A limp, or one leg feeling shorter than the other
  • ✓Shoulder pain when reaching overhead or behind your back
  • ✓Night pain that prevents you lying on that side
  • ✓Loss of shoulder movement that has not improved with physiotherapy

If two or more of these apply and have lasted more than six weeks, an imaging review is worth doing before you commit to any treatment.

Conditions We Assess

Commonly Reviewed

  • ✓Hip osteoarthritis
  • ✓Avascular necrosis of the femoral head
  • ✓Femoroacetabular impingement

Also Assessed

  • ✓Rotator cuff tear
  • ✓Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
  • ✓Shoulder impingement and instability

Treatment Options

Options run from conservative care through to surgery. Which one applies depends on your imaging — the review tells you where you sit on this range.

Injection / hydrodilatation

What it involves

Image-guided, commonly used for frozen shoulder

Hospital stay

Day case

Typical recovery

Days

Shoulder arthroscopy

What it involves

Keyhole rotator cuff repair or decompression

Hospital stay

1–3 days

Typical recovery

3–6 months

Hip arthroscopy

What it involves

Keyhole treatment of impingement or labral tears

Hospital stay

1–3 days

Typical recovery

6–12 weeks

Total hip replacement

What it involves

Imported implant, muscle-sparing approach where suitable

Hospital stay

5–7 days

Typical recovery

8–12 weeks

Shoulder replacement

What it involves

Anatomic or reverse, depending on cuff status

Hospital stay

5–7 days

Typical recovery

3–6 months

本页信息仅供一般参考,不构成医疗建议或诊断。治疗方案、康复时间及预后因人而异,将由您的主治专家在审阅您的影像资料后确定。

What It Costs

Hip and shoulder procedures vary too widely to quote honestly without seeing your imaging. You receive a written all-inclusive figure as part of your treatment plan — before you commit to anything, and at no charge.

Who Handles This

Consultants for This Condition

郭学泽博士

顾问 · 足、踝及创伤科

傅存雷博士

顾问 · 髋关节与膝关节置换术

赵伟博士

顾问 · 运动医学与肩部

How It Works

1. Enquire

Send your X-ray, CT or MRI report and describe your symptoms.

2. Specialist Review

A consultant reviews your case and returns a plan with full costs within 48 hours.

3. Insurance

We help you obtain pre-approval and prepare bilingual claim documents.

4. Treatment

Your appointment is scheduled and a coordinator follows your case throughout.

Hip & Shoulder — Questions We Are Asked Most

Not always. In early stages, joint-preserving procedures may be considered. Once the femoral head has collapsed, replacement is usually the option that restores function. Staging on your MRI determines which applies.

Usually not as a first step. Hydrodilatation and a structured physiotherapy programme resolve many cases. Surgery is reserved for shoulders that do not respond.

Because the range is too wide to quote honestly without seeing your imaging — implant type, approach and length of stay vary considerably. You receive a written all-inclusive figure with your treatment plan, before you commit to anything.

Sometimes, but it depends on your general health and on how the first side recovers. Your consultant will advise; it is never assumed.

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Hip & Shoulder

Hip and Shoulder: Two Joints, One Assessment Route

Both are ball-and-socket joints where the imaging is often clear but the timing decision is not. The review answers the same two questions for each: is an operation indicated, and is now the right point to have it.

Free written review · No obligation · Reply within 48 hours

48-Hour Specialist Review
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Symptom Check

Do these sound familiar?

None of this is a diagnosis. It is a way of deciding whether it is worth sending your imaging for a specialist to read.

  • Hip: groin pain on walking, worse on rising from low seats
  • Hip: difficulty putting on socks or getting in and out of a car
  • Hip: a limp that has become permanent rather than occasional
  • Shoulder: pain reaching overhead, behind the back, or lying on that side
  • Shoulder: weakness lifting the arm, or a sense the joint may slip
  • Shoulder: stiffness that has progressed over months in both directions of movement

Seek care locally, not remotely

Sudden inability to bear weight after a fall, or a shoulder that has dislocated and not reduced, needs assessment locally the same day.

What It Might Be

Diagnoses and Treatment Options

Two joints, assessed separately. Jump to the one you need.

臀部

Hip cases are usually clearer on imaging than knee cases — a standing pelvis X-ray answers most of the question. The harder decision is timing.

Common diagnoses

Hip Osteoarthritis

Joint space loss on a standing pelvis X-ray. Groin pain and restricted internal rotation are the typical clinical picture.

Avascular Necrosis (AVN)

Loss of blood supply to the femoral head. Staging matters — early-stage AVN has joint-preserving options that late-stage does not.

Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI)

Abnormal contact between femoral head and socket, typically in younger active patients. Assessed on X-ray plus MRI.

Labral Tear

Often accompanies FAI. Treated on the underlying mechanics rather than in isolation.

Hip Dysplasia

A shallow socket that loads the edge of the joint. May be a candidate for realignment rather than replacement in younger patients.

Treatment options

Listed as clinical facts. Whether any option applies to you is decided case by case on your imaging and history — no outcome is promised here.

Hip options and when each is typically considered
OptionTypically considered whenInpatient stay & early recovery
Structured non-operative careEarly arthritis, or while a timing decision is madeNo admission. Reassessed at 6–12 weeks
Hip arthroscopyImpingement or labral pathology in a joint without established arthritis1–2 nights. Protected weight-bearing initially
Joint-preserving surgery for early AVNSelected early-stage cases before femoral head collapseVaries with technique and stage
Total hip replacementEnd-stage arthritis or AVN with collapse, where pain and function are no longer controlled5–7 nights. Written precaution list for the first six weeks
Revision hip replacementLoosening, wear, instability or infection after a previous replacementLonger stay; varies with findings and whether staged treatment is needed

肩膀

Shoulder cases turn on tear size, tissue quality and how long the problem has been present — three things an MRI report states directly.

Common diagnoses

Rotator Cuff Tear

Partial or full thickness. Size, retraction and muscle quality on MRI drive whether repair is realistic.

Frozen Shoulder (Adhesive Capsulitis)

Progressive stiffness in all directions. Follows a long but generally self-limiting course; surgery is rarely the first answer.

Shoulder Instability

Recurrent dislocation or subluxation. Bone loss on CT changes the operation that is appropriate.

Subacromial Impingement

Pain on overhead reach. Usually managed non-operatively in the first instance.

AC Joint Arthritis

Pain localised to the top of the shoulder, worse reaching across the body.

Shoulder Osteoarthritis

Less common than hip or knee. Replacement options differ depending on whether the cuff is intact.

Treatment options

Listed as clinical facts. Whether any option applies to you is decided case by case on your imaging and history — no outcome is promised here.

Shoulder options and when each is typically considered
OptionTypically considered whenInpatient stay & early recovery
Physiotherapy and injectionFirst line for impingement, frozen shoulder and many partial cuff tearsNo admission or day case
Arthroscopic subacromial decompressionImpingement that has not settled with a fair trial of non-operative careDay case to 1 night
Arthroscopic rotator cuff repairFull-thickness tears with repairable tissue2–3 nights. Sling and staged rehabilitation protocol
Arthroscopic stabilisationRecurrent instability without significant bone loss1–2 nights
Latarjet / bone block procedureRecurrent instability with significant glenoid bone loss2–3 nights
Shoulder replacement (anatomic or reverse)End-stage arthritis; which type depends on rotator cuff integrity3–5 nights

What to Send

The Imaging a Consultant Actually Needs

Sending the right films the first time is the difference between a 48-hour answer and a two-week round trip of requests.

  • 成像 报告 and the images themselves — PDF, JPG or DICOM
  • A short history: when it started, what makes it worse, what you have already tried
  • Any previous operation notes for the same joint or region
  • Current medication, and any other medical conditions
  • Your age, and what you need to get back to doing

Not sure what you have?

Send what you have. The coordinator checks whether anything essential is missing and tells you exactly what to ask your local hospital for — including the specific views.

Cost

Indicative Package Ranges for This Area

Indicative package cost ranges
Treatment OptionEstimated Cost Range
Total Hip Replacement (unilateral)USD 10,500 – 16,800
Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff RepairUSD 5,200 – 9,000
Shoulder ReplacementUSD 11,000 – 17,000

Indicative package estimates compiled from publicly available partner-hospital price lists as of August 2026. Provided for comparison only — not a quotation. Your final figure depends on imaging findings, implant selection, other medical conditions and length of stay, and is confirmed in writing before admission.

Get a figure for your own case

Send your report and we return an itemised estimate for the options a consultant identifies — at no charge.

Who Reviews This

Consultants Who Take Hip & Shoulder Cases

Send the report even if you are unsure which subspecialty applies — routing it correctly is the coordinator’s job, not yours.

[NN]+ 年

傅存雷博士

顾问

重点: 髋关节与膝关节置换术

[NN]+ 年

赵伟博士

顾问

重点领域: 运动医学与肩部

[NN]+ 年

殷德龙博士

顾问

重点: 创伤与关节置换

常见问题解答

Hip & Shoulder — Questions Patients Ask

There is no single threshold. The consultant weighs the X-ray stage against how much the hip limits you day to day, your age and activity demand, and what non-operative options remain untried. If it reads as too early, the review says so and sets out what to watch for.

It depends on retraction and muscle quality, not only on size. Where a repair is not realistic, other options exist and are set out explicitly — including reverse shoulder replacement in appropriate cases. The review states which category the imaging places you in and why.

For hips, a standing pelvis X-ray plus a lateral view of the affected hip; MRI is added for AVN, impingement or labral questions. For shoulders, MRI (or MR arthrogram for instability) plus plain films; CT is added when bone loss needs measuring.

Yes. Send both sets of imaging in one submission. If two subspecialties are involved, both consultants are named in the written plan before you decide anything.

That is set by the treating team based on your recovery and thrombosis risk, and confirmed before discharge rather than promised in advance. Typical inpatient stays are listed in the treatment tables above so you can plan around a realistic range.

Ask about your own case

Attach your imaging report on WhatsApp. A coordinator confirms receipt the same working day and tells you if anything is missing.

Have a Consultant Read Your Hip & Shoulder Imaging

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