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 placed 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 fetal condition (i.e. congenital) 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 outward legs) 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.General surgical treatment. 2.Small needle knife and arthroscopic treatment, etc., leave almost no scar on the hip after treatment, but if the indications are not selected properly, incomplete treatment will occur, affecting the results. 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 re-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 in old age, the possibility of fractures due to falls with limited mobility increases. Therefore, adult hip contracture should also be treated promptly.