Presenting recent advances in clinical diagnosis and treatment derived from an increased understanding of the biology of the hip, this unique text examines hip disease and pathophysiology through the lenses of kinematics, biomechanics, anatomy and metabolism.

In this book we discuss how children grow, how to measure this and how to decide whether development falls within normal parameters. This leads us to consider problems with the norm, including the more generalised bone and cartilage disorders, most now genetically determined.

This book is a practice-oriented manual teaching the successful examination technique developed and taught by the author known as "Graf's technique". The book includes the fundamentals of hip sonography, static as well as dynamic techniques, anatomical identification of the echograms, typing, a measurement technique and usability check.