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This is a bibliographic review work, the purpose of which is to study the assessment of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), as well as its treatment. Treatment can be achieved either conservatively in light to moderate form of impingement through drugs and organizing a physiotherapy program, or surgically in a severe form of impingement through various techniques in combination with physiotherapy. First of all, reference is made to the anatomy and structure of the wider area of the hip and pelvis, two areas directly associated with the femoroacetabular impingement. The joints and ligaments that hold them in the area are mentioned, as well as the biomechanics of the hip. Particular emphasis is placed on the muscles of the area and their function. Then, the term of femoroacetabular impingement, the types in which it is ranked, the type that appears most frequently, and the reasons for suspecting it to occur are presented. Additionally, the symptoms with which patients appear, as well as the sequence followed by the patient's assessment, on the part of the physician and the physiotherapist, are presented to exclude other hip pathologies and to diagnose the impingement. In addition, the options - conservative and surgical - that exist in the treatment and when one is superior to the other based on the published studies are analyzed. Conservative treatment involves medication, activity reduction and physiotherapy, while surgery involves arthroscopy, open techniques, osteoplasty. Due to the great role that physiotherapy plays in the postoperative rehabilitation of patients, this work presents an integrated physiotherapy protocol postoperatively.