Randale Lambert has always had a passion for running. In 2010, while on a partial scholarship at Iowa Wesleyan, he became injured during an afternoon game of “pick-up” football. He and some friends were just goofing around when a tackle ended with a left hip labral tear for Lambert.  Lambert says he really didn’t think much of it when he felt a pop in his hip but once he got back to practice, he started experiencing pain while running which affected his performance in practice and made it impossible to compete for the rest of the season.  This unintended injury eventually lead to a cutting edge surgery that ended up changing Randale Lambert’s life and career path.  Read more...

Over the past two decades, the hip preservation team at Washington University Orthopedics has been utilizing and refining a procedure known as the Bernese Periacetabular Osteotomy (PAO).  This procedure encompasses a series of bone cuts around the hip socket which enables repositioning and correction of the shallow socket deformity.
Over several years, John Clohisy, MD, and Perry Schoenecker, MD, have spearheaded the Washington University initiative to adopt and refine the PAO. 
Recently, our hip preservation team published the clinical outcomes and survivorship of the PAO in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. This study reviewed the Washington University Experience with the PAO procedure in treating symptomatic acetabular dysplasia and documented results at an average 10 years and determined hip survivorship for 15 years after surgery. Read More…