Non-Surgical Hip Care · Atlanta, GA
Modern pain management and orthopedic medicine offer a wide range of effective non-invasive and minimally invasive options for hip conditions. Surgery is rarely the first answer — and often not necessary at all.
Real Results
This TenJet patient explains what drew them to a percutaneous option and how the recovery actually went.
TenJet Patient Testimonial
Video courtesy of HydroCision, Inc., the maker of TenJet®. Individual results vary; this patient's experience is not a guarantee of outcome. Talk with a specialist about whether the procedure is appropriate for you.
Why Non-Invasive First
Surgery carries real risks — infection, anesthesia complications, lengthy recovery, and uncertain outcomes. For most hip conditions, non-invasive treatment offers comparable results with far less risk.
Procedure Guide
A comparison of the most common non-surgical hip interventions offered by Atlanta specialists.
Advanced Treatment
For chronic hip tendinopathy that has not resolved with physical therapy and injections, a minimally invasive procedure is available that directly removes degenerative tissue — without surgery, without a hospital stay, and without the recovery burden of an open procedure.
How it works
Chronic hip pain from tendinopathy often involves the gluteal tendons where they attach to the greater trochanter — a condition frequently undertreated with injections alone. Under continuous ultrasound guidance, the physician makes a small incision and advances a small-gauge device to the degenerative gluteal or iliopsoas tendon tissue. A high-pressure saline jet precisely emulsifies and removes the diseased tissue through an integrated aspiration channel, leaving healthy fibers intact. The procedure is performed in an office or clinic under local anesthesia and typically takes 15–30 minutes.
Who is a candidate
Patients with greater trochanteric pain syndrome, gluteal tendinopathy, or iliopsoas tendinopathy who have failed physical therapy and injection-based treatments are often ideal candidates. Because the procedure targets only the diseased portion of the tendon under real-time imaging, it can be used in situations where repeated injections are no longer appropriate or effective.
Atlanta Specialists
These physicians specialize in non-surgical and minimally invasive hip care across the Atlanta metro area.
Official demonstration video from HydroCision, the maker of TenJet, plus a look at how tendinitis differs from the deeper tissue degeneration TenJet is designed to treat.
TenJet Gluteal Tendinopathy Minimally Invasive Tenotomy
Diagrams and video courtesy of HydroCision, Inc.
Common Questions
Working through a small incision under image guidance rather than opening the area surgically. Here that means a roughly 3 mm incision, local anesthetic and an outpatient setting.
The incision is small — on the order of a few millimetres — and typically closed with a simple dressing rather than sutures, so any resulting mark is correspondingly small.
It is a fundamentally different operation for a different problem. Replacement addresses the joint surfaces; this addresses degenerated tendon outside the joint.
Usually yes, progressively. Return to loaded training is staged, since a healing tendon tolerates gradually increasing load better than an abrupt return to previous volumes.
This information is general and is not medical advice. Whether any procedure is appropriate for you can only be determined by a physician who has examined you and reviewed your imaging.