Hip Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement Improves Sleep Quality Postoperatively

To describe the prevalence of abnormal sleep quality in patients with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome and to determine whether arthroscopic hip preservation surgery with cam/pincer correction, labral preservation, and capsular plication can improve sleep quality postoperatively. All patients undergoing primary hip arthroscopy for cam/pincer correction who failed nonoperative management between March 1, 2017, and July 1, 2017, were administered a validated sleep quality questionnaire—the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)—preoperatively and at 3, 6, 12, and 24 weeks postoperatively. Exclusion criteria included patients undergoing revision arthroscopy, gluteus medius repair, or a contralateral procedure during the follow-up period and those with known sleep disorders. A global (total) PSQI score >5 indicates poor sleep quality. The Hip Outcome Score–Activities of Daily Living, Hip Outcome Score–Sports Specific Subscale, modified Harris Hip Score, and International Hip Outcome Tool-12 were used to assess functional outcomes. A repeated measures analysis of variance with post hoc Greenhouse-Geisser and Bonferroni corrections was conducted to determine statistically significant changes in sleep patterns. A total of 52 patients (94.6%) were included in the final analysis. The mean (± standard error) patient age was 37.8 ± 1.9 years, and body mass index was 27.6 ± 0.7. Preoperatively, 49 (94.2%) of patients experienced poor sleep quality, defined as a global PSQI score >5, with a mean PSQI score of 9.8 ± 0.6. At 24 weeks postoperatively, 10 (21.7%) of patients experienced poor sleep quality with a mean PSQI score of 2.2 ± 0.2. All patients had significant improvements in all hip outcome instruments at 24 weeks postoperatively (P < .001). Preoperatively, patients with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome have a high prevalence of sleep disturbance. These patients experience subsequent improvement in sleep disturbance after arthroscopic hip surgery early in the postoperative period. Level IV, case series.