The acetabular labrum is a ring of protective cartilage. It lines the rim of your hip socket (acetabulum). Your acetabular labrum holds your thigh bone securely in the joint, which allows flexibility ...

The labrum is a soft tissue ring that helps support the hip joint. The labrum can be damaged to a point ... If you have a complex fracture that is difficult or impossible to repair with an open or ...

His surgery will repair a left-side femoroacetabular impingement and the left-side hip labrum. It will be performed by Dr. Bryan T. Kelly at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York on Thursday.

Objective: Acetabular labral tears predominantly affect young patients and are a source of hip pain in the athlete. Four causes of the initiation of labral tears have been proposed; trauma, hypolaxity ...

Minter underwent season-ending left hip surgery in September involving a labrum repair, hip impingement and a lesion on the femur. He originally delayed the surgery with a month of rest last ...

but after pitching through what he called “excruciating pain” he underwent an extensive procedure in Nashville to repair a labral tear and a hip impingement, and remove a lesion on the femur.

All participants had 3T MRI of dominant hip. Main Outcome Measurements Positive exam findings and labral tear on MRI. Results Labral tears were identified in 70 hips. Average alpha angle was 59 ...