“…76 Nonoperative treatment, including physical therapy, is typically based on a staged approach, with a focus on core hip musculature and improvement in hip external rotation and abduction in extension and flexion; education or prevention may include counseling patients on avoiding aggravating factors; early use of NSAIDs may be useful as well. [77][78][79] Whereas the use of cortisone injections for FAI is common practice for in-season athletes, the empirical evidence of its efficacy is unclear, mixed, and understudied. 80 Open surgical dislocation for treating FAI in hockey players has been documented.…”