While hip labral tears don't usually cause abrupt, excruciating pain, like an ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) or shoulder labral tear would, studies show they're more common than you'd think: Up ...

The hip labrum is important for joint stability and kinematics and has nerve endings facilitating proprioception and pain. Treating the damaged labrum is essential due to the established ...

Labral tears happen at any age. Several factors can cause labral tears in the hip: Activities with repetitive hip movements, like running, ballet, golf, or hockey, among others. Traumatic injuries ...

A) With the hip in traction, a capsulotomy is performed on the anterior hip capsule (HC) between the anterior labrum (L) and the anterior-superior femoral head (FH). A radiofrequency hook probe is ...

A hip (acetabular) labral tear is damage to cartilage and tissue in the hip socket. The labrum is a band of tough cartilage and connective tissue that lines the rim of the hip socket, or acetabulum.

Hip labrum surgery is a medical procedure that repairs or replaces a torn labrum in the hip joint. The success rate for this surgery is high in most people. The hip labrum is a crescent-shaped ...

This week we are going to discuss a common but frequently missed condition of the hip, femoral acetabular impingement. FAI is a complex condition of the hip which can cause pain in the groin and la… ...

Most people have heard of a torn cartilage, a common knee injury. A similar problem in the hip, called a labral tear, can cause pain and limit the activities of many people. Because it is not as ...

This month, Alex Rodriguez made more headline news when he announced that he’d been diagnosed with a labral tear. Our doctor has good news for all those anxious Yankees fans: “Arthroscopic hip ...