Hip labral tear surgery – any experiences?

Hi all,

I tore my hip labrum last autumn, confirmed via MRI that’s the problem. Just squatting in the gym and felt a sudden sharp pain, that’s ached ever since especially when sat down. Been doing physio for several months and still in quite a bit of pain so it’s probably time to think about surgery. Seeing the consultant again in a couple of weeks to decide if that’s the way forwards. When I first saw him he thought that it was probably a 50/50 chance whether physio would have calmed it down.

Anyone had the surgery? Lots of mixed experiences online. He thought for me it would be about a month on crutches and ~4 months until back on a mountain bike, with an 80% chance of resolving the pain.

Not directly helpful, but sort of.

I started with tears in my right hip 3yrs ago. MRIs etc, and hips already arthritic so no point having a tear repair.

3 yrs on tears now settled down, now on to full on bone on bone action which thankfully is not painful at the min

Ive done very little in the last 2 years and in someways I resent the consultant decision, but it is what it is

You need to know what condition your hips are in ie in terms of arthritic change. Mine apparently too far gone for tear surgery but not yet bad enough for replacement

Will be watching with interest. I have a suspected labrum tear and waiting to hear today whether I’m off for a scan. Physio hasn’t helped mine after 12 months of trying.

I’m at the point where mounting and dismounting the bike is very painful and it’s only getting worse so hoping for positive news.

Had labral tears in both from hip fai. Surgery 3 times. This was at about age 35ish. Five years off bike, a complete nightmare. Now age 50 I can ride pretty much as much as I like,kind of.

Had labral tears in both from hip fai. Surgery 3 times. This was at about age 35ish. Five years off bike, a complete nightmare. Now age 50 I can ride pretty much as much as I like,kind of.

I’m borderline on FAI apparently, the hip ‘ball’ is ever so slightly ‘full’ in the joint but to a level they’d have left it if I had no problems, but if they were going in for the tear repair anyway he’d want to shave some off whilst I was under.

You need to know what condition your hips are in ie in terms of arthritic change. Mine apparently too far gone for tear surgery but not yet bad enough for replacement

I’m 30 so now arthitis yet, purely the tear causing the pain. Doing any of the physio tests where they flex and internally rotate the hip pinches like heck, on the front just about the groin. Read a few studies that untreated tears can accelerate hip degeneration, but that’s balanced against the risks of surgery so there’s no easy answer here.

As a bump to this, yep its surgery for me to repair the tear and correct the hip impingement.

The main factor was that I have more pain sitting down stationary (with correct posture) than I do when moving around, indicative that its the impingement causing a mechanical problem as opposed to anything muscular or gait based. Consultant wasn’t surprised that physio didnt work in my case.

I had my impingement and labral tear diagnosed about 12 years ago. At the time, surgery wasn’t reliably successful so I gave up running. At that point it hurt all the time. Took about a year before it only hurt when aggravated, (and to learn what would aggravate it), and it’s the same now – doesn’t hurt all the time, only when I do something I shouldn’t. Basically I avoid anything at extremes of movement, wear very light weight shoes, don’t carry heavy stuff, or any stuff in a backpack on a walk if possible. It flares up every now and then and can take a couple of weeks to a couple of months to calm down. Hoping to have it fixed by hip replacement eventually rather than labral surgery!