Hip Restoration Institute Launched at Swedish Medical Center

 Swedish Medical Center is pleased to announce the opening of the all-new Hip Restoration Institute. With a unique focus on diagnosing and treating hip labral tears, the team at Swedish’s Hip Restoration Institute has unparalleled experience in providing advanced treatment and exceptional outcomes.

A hip labral tear is an injury to the soft tissue (labrum) that covers the hip cup (acetabulum). Most often, hip labral tears affect athletes in high contact sports (such as hockey or football), athletes who perform repetitive motions with twisting and pivoting (such as golf or softball), victims of automotive accidents, and those with structural issues such as dysplasia or femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). An injury that will not heal on its own, surgery is often recommended when the tear is severe or producing persistent symptoms.

Hip labral reconstruction is an innovative treatment for hip labral tears and often is a superior alternative to a hip labral repair surgery. During this procedure, the torn or damaged labrum is removed arthroscopically. In its place, donor tissue (allograft) or the patient’s own tissue (autograft) are placed and used to reconstruct a new labrum. “The reconstructed tissue does not regenerate nerve fibers or feel pain the way the labrum’s native tissue would,” explains Brian J. White, MD, board-certified hip surgeon at the Hip Restoration Institute at Swedish Medical Center. “Thus, labral reconstruction patients report high rates of success and low rates of ongoing pain.”

Hip labral reconstruction is a highly complex surgery that requires an extremely experienced team. The Hip Restoration Institute providers have unmatched experience using this technique to get patients back to the lives they love. In fact, the team has successfully completed thousands of hip labral reconstructions and continues to perform hundreds each year. In addition to hip labral reconstruction, the Swedish Hip Restoration Institute also provides other hip arthroscopy surgeries, hip replacement surgery and ligamentum teres reconstruction. To learn more about the Hip Restoration Institute at Swedish Medical Center, or to find an orthopedic surgeon, visit SwedishHospital.com/ortho.

About Swedish Medical Center
Swedish Medical Center is located in the south metro Denver area where it has been a proud member of the community for more than 110 years. An acute care hospital with 408 licensed beds, annually Swedish cares for more than 200,000 patients with a team of approximately 2,000 dedicated employees, 300 volunteers and 1,400 physicians.

As a national leader in neurosciences, Swedish serves as the hub of the Swedish Neuro Network. The hospital is the Rocky Mountain Region’s preeminent referral center for the most advanced stroke treatment and was the state’s first Joint Commission certified Comprehensive Stroke Center. Swedish also is home to Colorado’s first fully comprehensive robotics program with nine robots in dedicated robotics operating rooms; patients benefit from a high level of specialization with robotics-trained caregivers at every stage of treatment, as well as robotics-specific design in the program’s dedicated pre-op, ORs, PACU and inpatient spaces. As the region’s neurotrauma and orthopedic trauma provider and a level I trauma facility, more than 150 facilities regularly transfer highly complex cases to Swedish. The trauma program includes a burn and reconstructive center, which has been certified for adult burn care by the American Burn Association and recognized nationally for providing the highest quality of care to adult and pediatric burn and reconstructive patients.

Swedish Medical Center is proud to be a part of the HCA Healthcare’s Continental Division, which was named the top health system in the state by IBM Watson Health and our system was named one of the top five large health systems in the country. This division includes our local system, HealthONE, which also received recognition as the top health system in the state by IBM Watson Health. Consistently among the Denver Business Journals’ list of top corporate philanthropists in the Denver-metro area, HealthONE contributed more than $889,000 through cash and in-kind donations last year alone, and also provided $677M in charity, uninsured and other uncompensated care along with nearly $200M in federal, state and local taxes.