Although adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder is a common clinical syndrome, 
adhesive capsulitis in other joints has rarely been reported. Four patients who 
developed adhesive capsulitis of the hip joint after trauma and two patients 
with adhesive capsulitis of the ankle, also precipitated by trauma, are 
described. The diagnosis of adhesive capsulitis is easily made during 
arthrography when a joint of low volume and high intracapsular pressure is 
encountered.