Orthopedic surgeons may be tempted to blame hip pain on sports, bony morphology, or that one CrossFit phase everyone pretends never happened. But according to this study, there’s another culprit quietly destabilizing the hip joint — systemic hormonal contraception (HC).
Yes. The pill. The patch. The progestin-only option your patient started in high school.
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