Does anyone know if hip dysplasia can develop, or occur as the result of something like a fall (in a child with low muscle tone). Ds is struggling to walk, his hips swivel, he limps and walks with one foot always on tip toe. He has always had a drunken gait (he started walking at 28 months, but because of his low tone, struggles to walk any distance, can't run, falls often and struggles with steps and stairs) but it has deteriorated since falling a couple of weeks ago.
He is very reluctant to walk now and whereas he had just started to slowly climb the stairs with a lot of help, he is completely unable to now, and is even reluctant to crawl up. He had a hip X-ray at around 10 months to rule out hip dysplasia as he has an extra crease on his leg.
We have seen the orthopaedics department, but they said as he had movement if the leg, no swelling, and didn't seem in pain they wouldn't X-ray.
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Hip dysplasia?
hazeyjane · 21/04/2014 20:20
Thankyou Towie.
We saw orthopaedics this morning, they could see that something was not right, and had deteriorated since last they saw him. They noted that he is reluctant to walk unaided, and noted the tip toe walk, limp and swivelly hips. He had an xray of his right leg and hip (despite me asking to do both), which was fine, and they said hip dysplasia would have shown up in the xray he had as a 1 year old. They can see that something is wrong so are waiting to talk to his physio and will see us again in 4 weeks. I may need a new back by then - carrying around 16kg of ds is no fun!
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