Medically reviewed by Oluseun Olufade, MD A hip labral tear is an injury to the ring of cartilage (the labrum) around the hip socket. The labrum is essential for hip joint stability. The cartilage rim ...

The acetabular labrum deepens the hip socket in a fashion that is similar to the way the glenoid labrum deepens the socket. However, in contrast with the glenoid in the glenohumeral joint, the osseous ...

Labral tears in the hip occur when the patient sustains significant trauma or repetitive microtrauma to the hip joint enough to damage the fibrocartilaginous labrum of the hip joint. The labrum ...

Pain with sitting, driving or sex might be a hip joint issue that needs to be evaluated, Ochiai added. Putting it off can put you at risk of arthritis, especially if you had a labral tear ...

Finally, videotapes from each patient's hip arthroscopy were assessed ... When the torn labrum can be seen to infold into the joint, debridement is done, using a shaver and suction punch through ...

Background Surgery for hip femoroacetabular impingement/acetabular labral tear (FAI/ALT) is exponentially increasing despite lacking investigation of the accuracy of ...