A specialist in injuries and damage to the hip in patients without arthritis, Dr. Carreira welcomes patients as young as adolescents. He treats hip injuries especially in active people, ranging from professional athletes to weekend warriors who wish to return to an active lifestyle including hiking and sport.

If nonoperative treatments, which may include medications, activity modification, and physical therapy, fail and do not provide significant pain relief and improved function, surgery may be a treatment option.

Along with nonoperative treatments, Dr. Carreira offers minimally invasive hip arthroscopy to treat many hip-related issues. In addition to those problems listed below, Dr. Carreira also treats external snapping hip.

NOTE: Dr. Carreira has an extensive Hip Arthroscopy FAQ section. Dr. Carreira regularly updates that page with new, relevant, and updated Q&A.

Post-Surgical Recovery Guidance

In the six weeks immediately following hip arthroscopy, Dr. Carreira advises his patients to maintain a level of activity “like a little old grandma or grandpa.

Dr. Carreira’s practice encourages his patients to send pictures of their use of electric carts in different department stores. This is a fun way to entice patients to maintain a healthy activity level while getting out of the house.

In the photo in this section, a college athlete is shopping in a healthy and sensible way as she uses an electric cart to get about in a large store.

Hip Problems

The following is a partial list of hip problems that Dr. Carreira treats.

• Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI)
• Hamstring Pain
• Hip Allograft Labral Reconstruction
• Hip Instability (Microinstability or Hypermobility)
• Hip Labrum Tear
• Internal Snap
• Ligamentum Teres Tear
• Limited Arthritis / Focal Hip Cartilage Damage
• Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis (PVNS)
• Synovial Chondromatosis
• Synovitis