Question
My baby is over a year old and still can’t walk on their own. When held by the hand, there doesn’t seem to be any problem. The hospital examination said there is slight developmental dysplasia in the left hip joint. Is it true that taking calcium supplements will gradually improve it? Could there be any other issues?
Answer
Hip dysplasia is a common cause of congenital hip dislocation, and the general characteristics of surgical treatment include fully relaxing the surrounding adductor muscles of the hip joint, correcting the position of the femoral head and acetabulum, dealing with bone deformities, and using commonly employed methods. The surgical method is limited by the patient’s age; osteotomy is traumatic with a lot of bleeding, and the insertion of internal fixation devices cannot be firmly fixed, requiring external fixation. Inappropriate operation leads to a high failure rate. Subperiosteal bone grafting is used to treat pediatric congenital hip joint acetabular developmental dysplasia.