According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a subluxation is a "significant structural displacement", and is therefore often visible on static imaging studies, such as X-rays , although this may involve multiple forms of imaging. In some cases, this might require arthroscopy. While this is the most common medical use of the term, there are exceptions. In some cases, medical subluxations occur despite the lack of acute trauma. For example, in extra-articular snapping hip syndrome, "commonly encountered among athletes without a history of injury and with no associated symptoms", a "snapping phenomenon occurs as the iliopsoas tendon subluxes."%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Some situations are contentious even within the medical field. In slipping rib syndrome, one or more ribs slip over adjacent ribs. This may or may not be referred to as a subluxation. Many in the medical field consider this an interchondral subluxation. Some in the medical field find the idea of an interchondral subluxation preposterous .
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While this is the most common medical use of the term, there are exceptions. In some cases, medical subluxations occur despite the lack of acute trauma. For example, in extra-articular snapping hip syndrome, "commonly encountered among athletes without a history of injury and with no associated symptoms", a "snapping phenomenon occurs as the iliopsoas tendon subluxes."
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Some situations are contentious even within the medical field. In slipping rib syndrome, one or more ribs slip over adjacent ribs. This may or may not be referred to as a subluxation. Many in the medical field consider this an interchondral subluxation. Some in the medical field find the idea of an interchondral subluxation preposterous