labral tear

Labral tears often are caused by injury and can lead to shoulder pain.

"They're common throughout sports," Carpenter says of labral tears.

Most labral tears heal without requiring surgery.

Doctors diagnose labral tears through magnetic resonance imaging, or MRIs.

Acetabular labral tears, damage to the structure joining the femur and the hip, have been reported to have resulted from yoga practice.

Also, many athletes have concomitant weakness or tearing of the adductor muscles or labral tears of the hip.

I have been suffering from labral tears in both hip cartilages and this has resulted in pain and restricted movement for the past nine months."

This is due mainly to the recent identification of pathological conditions such as femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and labral tears.

Adolescents and adults with hip dysplasia may present with hip pain and in some cases hip labral tears.

This may impart compression and shear forces to the articular cartilage, and may lead to labral tears and peeling away of the articular cartilage from the underlying bone, so-called cartilage delamination (see fig. 8).