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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about gluteal tendinopathy and death from gluteal tendinopathy.
Meaning of gluteal tendinopathy
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, gluteal tendinopathy means a symptomatic inflammatory or degenerative disease of the gluteus medius or gluteus minimus tendons at or near their insertion into the greater trochanter of the hip.
Note: Clinical manifestations of gluteal tendinopathy typically include pain and tenderness in the region of the lateral hip or buttock that usually worsens with physical activity. Gluteal tendinopathy can be associated with degenerative tendon tears.
(3)          While gluteal tendinopathy attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M76.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of gluteal tendinopathy is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from gluteal tendinopathy
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, gluteal tendinopathy, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's gluteal tendinopathy.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.