Can you cross your legs? When you find yourself or a friend can not cross your legs, the first thing to do is to see if you can squat with your knees together and not apart, if you can not squat you should immediately go to the hospital orthopedic doctor, because it is likely to have a disease called hip contracture. Gluteus contracture is a disease in which the hip joint movement is limited due to contracture (i.e., shortening) of the hip muscles and other soft tissues. What are the signs and symptoms of hip contracture? The main manifestations of patients with hip contracture are: when running, they can only run at a small pace, but jump at a large pace; when walking, they have an “outward eight” (frog leg, duck gait) gait; when sitting, they can’t bend their knees and bend their hips 900 times or cross their legs; they can’t squat with their knees together or apart, and when squatting, they can only squat with their knees in a circle or with their feet apart Some hip flexors have a sliding or rattling sound at the hip; some have obvious slab-like hips; some have obvious sunken hips that are more pointed; some sleep on their sides with the top leg’s knee unable to be put on the bed; severe cases may have a humped back and skewed body. When do you get hip contracture? It is often mistaken by relatives as a congenital condition and is not treated in time because it is difficult to cure or is not taken seriously. What are the effects of gluteus contracture? Gluteus contracture can affect growth, body shape (convexity, concave hips, hunchback and slope), posture (duck walk, frog leg squatting and jumping, walking and running on the outward leg) and psychological health, etc.; in adulthood, it is easy to develop rotor bursitis, which increases the possibility of aseptic necrosis of the femoral head, and the time to develop osteoarthritis in the hip and knee joints is early. The possibility of fracture due to fall and other accidents increases in old age due to limited mobility and the effect of hip contracture. How is hip contracture treated? 1.Ordinary surgical treatment: all hospitals use this old method but it is very traumatic and leaves a huge centipede-like scar of 4-15 cm long on the hip. 2, minimally invasive plastic treatment (our hospital invented minimally invasive scarless treatment effect of hip contracture was recently identified by domestic experts as a domestic leader!) This is a treatment method for gluteus contracture that is successfully researched by our hospital, which is less invasive, leaves no scar on the buttocks and achieves “three beauties (local beauty, body beauty and posture beauty) in one”, and is at the international leading level. 3.. Small needle knife and arthroscopic treatment can leave almost no scar on the hip after treatment, but if the indications are not chosen properly, the treatment will not be complete and the effect will be affected. When is the best time to treat gluteus contracture? Minimally invasive plastic therapy is very effective at all ages, and minimally invasive plastic therapy is also very effective in treating patients who have been treated surgically with poor results. Should adult gluteus contracture be treated? Adult gluteus contracture is generally due to untreated adolescent gluteus contracture and prolonged braking of the hip joint after inflammation of the gluteus muscle; because gluteus contracture is prone to bursitis of the greater trochanter, high pressure in the hip joint increases the possibility of aseptic necrosis of the femoral head, and the possibility of fractures due to falls with limited hip joint activity increases, especially the possibility of fractures due to falls with limited mobility in old age. Therefore, adult hip contracture should also be treated promptly (the oldest age we cured was 41 years old).