re: Experience with Labrum tear of the hip?

Labrum (shoulder in my case) don't repair themselves. If you stop doing things at the gym that caused it, you won't have any problems, I was told. I wasted almost two years getting cortisone shots, rehabbing, etc., until I finally got it surgically repaired. Now it's bulletproof to the point that I have to stretch my shoulder out a ton before I squat (>10 years after repair.)

The only pain in the arse was flying for work with a giant pillow under my arm as a part of the sling, and sleeping in a LayZBoy for two weeks. I imagine a hip would be somewhat similar.

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Any info you have on this would be appreciated. 

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What city are you in? Big cities will have several orthos that provide stem cell therapy.

That's pretty much what one of my daughter's doctors said. Managing the symptoms is the best route because there's no guarantee everything will be back to normal after surgery.

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You should know that scientific research demonstrates clearly:
Cam and pincer "deformities" are normal anatomical variations and have no relationship to the development of hip pain and arthritis.

Hip labral tears are a frequent finding in people with no hip problems. They have not been shown to cause or be related to hip pain or other problems.

All diagnostic tests for FAI are worse than useless and virtually guarantee you'll be told you need surgery.

Satisfaction rates for hip surgery for FAI are terrible, and surgery is about as effective as a poorly designed physical therapy protocol.

I don't expect you to take any of that on faith. So read on for more details and (reputable citations).

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Surgery for FAI fails to deliver. Though surgeons and medical websites often claim 80-90% success rates for FAI, the science says otherwise.

One early study pegged the disappointment rate at 56%.

A 2021 paper showed less than half of patients were satisfied with the results of their hip surgeries for hip impingement.

Randomized controlled trials show surgery has little to no benefit over poorly constructed physical therapy protocols.

For example, this study showed that surgery was no better than a (poorly-designed) physical therapy program. But that's not the worst of it.

Hip surgery can make your hip cartilage worse. Surgeons claim that hip surgery will "protect" your hip. But in a recent study designed to "prove" that surgery is better than physical therapy, they discovered something shocking. The study showed 1/3 patients who had hip surgery showed signs of worsening hip cartilage after the surgery. For the patients who didn't get surgery? 0% had signs of worsening hip cartilage. In other words, getting hip surgery led to WORSE outcomes for your hip cartilage.

Do a deep dive on hip surgery for FAI here.

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Have to go to the actual page to see the links to the studies. They surgery doesn’t work and the side effects and rehab are crap.

At a bare minimum, schedule the surgery a few months out and do this program in the meantime.

Had my right hip labrum repaired and underwent femorplasty due to cam lesion a week ago yesterday.

Dr. Emblom at Andrews Sports Medicine in Birmingham. Crutches for 2 days, cane for a couple days, now assistive device free.

I’ll remove the sutures Wednesday. Haven’t needed pain meds since the second night.

I am a PT and am doing my own rehab and knew potentially what to expect but so far has been much easier that I was preparing for.

You will have some ROM restrictions initially to protect the newly repaired labrum.

I’ll be going back to work this coming Thursday.

My daughter had that surgery at 15. An injury from cross country. Went very well and during recovery she didn’t have much pain. She has 4 scars from where they go in. I told her to tell people they are bullet wounds lol. Really wasn’t bad at all.

Do you expect to return to 100% of ability you had before the injury?

I’m hearing and reading so much conflicting info. I know every case is different, but this is killing my daughter thinking she may never play sports again.

I tore my last summer. I was 51 at the time, athletic, worked out every day, and 6'3" 190. Mine let go when I was walking my dogs of all things.

Doc said the way my femur fit into my hip (geometry-wise) that he could fix the labrum and it might last 6 months or 20 years, no real way to know. He said a full hip replacement would be more successful because he could improve upon the alignment god gave me. I elected to have that and got it done 2 weeks ago. The recovery for full replacement is supposedly easier. Thats another topic but feel free to ask me anything.

I will absolutely return back to 100% and so will she, barring any complications of surgery. I'm 37. Her age is a major benefit.

Follow the precautions, do the rehab completely including the return to sport stuff.

3 months I'll be back to playing league tennis and that is not an aggressive timeline.