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 ...

The head of your femur, or thighbone, is shaped like a ball that fits into the socket of your pelvis. The labrum is a ring of cartilage along the edge of the socket that gives stability to the hip ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Since superior labrum lesions were first described in 1985 and the term “SLAP” lesion was coined in 1990, ...

All it took was one unlucky hit. Bennedict Mathurin was simply chasing down a loose ball when his second season with the Indiana Pacers was effectively ended. As he reached for the ball in a March 5 ...

Labrum is soft cartilage that lines the ball-and-socket joints of the shoulders. This cartilage encircles the glenoid, a cavity in the shoulder blade, providing protection and stability to the ...

Hip labrum surgery is a medical procedure that repairs or replaces a torn labrum in the hip joint. The success rate for this surgery is high in most people. The hip labrum is a crescent-shaped piece ...