- Labrum is fibrocartilaginous tissue surrounding 80% of the superior hip acetabulum
- Femoracetabular Impingement
- Dance
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Basketball
- Soccer
- Hip Impingement
- Maneuvers with high risk of Hip Labral Tear
- Squatting
- Jumping
- Deep Hip Flexion
- Anterior Hip Pain
- History of hip Trauma or Sports Injury (including repetitive motion)
- Catching, clicking, popping or locking Sensation with hip movement
- Standing Anteroposterior (AP) Pelvis XRay
- First Line Study
- MRI Hip
- MRI Hip (3 Tesla) without contrast
- Adequate Test Sensitivity and Test Specificity to obviate intraarticular gadolinium
- Crespo-Rodriguez (2017) Eur J Radiol 88:109-16 [PubMed]
- MR Arthrogaphy (1.5 Tesla) with gadolinium intraarticular injection
- Lower tesla MRI requires intraarticular gadolinium for adequate sensitivity
- MRI Hip (3 Tesla) without contrast
- Femoracetabular Impingement (esp. young athletes)
- See Hip Pain Causes
- Physical Therapy
- Analgesics
- Intraarticular Joint Injection
- Surgery in refractory cases (esp. athletes)
- Schleihauf (2019) Crit Dec Emerg Med 33(5): 19-28
- Chamberlain (2021) Am Fam Physician 103(2): 81-9 [PubMed]