Hip Labral Tear Injury

What is Hip Labral (labrum) Tear Injury?

As we all know, injury is a damage caused by an outside pressure/factor/source to a specific body part.  All do all other injuries, hip labral tear injury causes a mild to severe pain within the hip area. Thus pain management is an important issue. Hip labral tear (acetabular labral tear) may turn out to be torn while performing sports like football (soccer), rugby, cycling, running and etc.. This main reason behind the cause is usually a twisting movement. Usually there is an acute pain.  It may be hard to diagnose it because of the diffusion of the pain. The pain may repeat while making mentioned sports activities where twisting and weight bearing takes place. 

Acetabular Labrum may be responsible as a main cause of hip pain. 

There is a strong need to explore acetabular labrum which is a fibrocartilage (composed of bundles of thick clearly defined collagen fibers) ring that is positioned in the acetabulum (socket) of the hip joint. 

The hip labrum supports human body’s stability of the hip joint, it promotes the stability by acting as a shock absorber and spacer while lifting any kind of weights. 

Worldwide physicians accept the fact that the acetabular labrum may change into torn in the clinical condition of a twisting motion is present during  the hip joint is carrying weight. It is important to remember that hip injury may take place while making sports like  rugby, American football and soccer. 

It has been observed that the symptoms of hip labral tear immediately displays itself; for instance  onset of  the pain of the hip is usually  immediate. 

Today we know that most of the joint problems of the hip may cause a diffusion and challenges patients to pinpoint and this is true for hip labral tear since it represents a hip joint problem for patients. 

If the anterior part of the hip joint is disturbed; there may be a sensation of compression during the patient flexes his/her hip by leading the knee up to his/her chest. 

The associated pain may arise while making sports or performing daily activities that is engaged in lifting the weights and twisting. 

The treatment of hip labral tear includes the hip arthroscopy which is usually being exercised without the need of hospitalization (inspite of using general anaesthetic agents) 

Patient follow up is critical to ensure the success of the treatment. Thus patients with hip labral tear should follow an enhanced physical therapy program under the supervision of a physiotherapist. Following an operation, returning to a sports is generally possible after 3 months period of time.

The most common signs and symptoms hip labral tear includes;

• Expanded hip pain
• Patient history of twisting on the hip.
• Hip joint 'catching' on  particular activities.