hip/groin/glut pain

I never had surgery and I'm able to manage it pretty well. When I ramp up my mileage, it can be an issue, so I have to do lots of stretching and icing. But, I've topped out at about 120mpw or so since getting hurt. Right after the injury occurred, I was in a lot of pain, but it's since subsided. I don't plan to have the surgery....I'll just deal with it. Good luck to you!

Thanks everyone, I have been and seen the sports doc about hip and they have come to conclusion it is either femoral neck stress fracture or labral tear. I am just waiting on results of MRI. Glad you all alerted me to this possiblity as otherwise I might have gone with the initial adductory strain diagnosis and continued to try and run/cross train!

Glad to hear you are on your way to a diagnosis.

My bet is on impingement/labral tear. Reason being because normally, there is no "maybe" with a femoral stress fracture. That is a whole new world of pain compared to the hip issue. I've known 8-10 runners with that type of fracture and there was no guessing involved...they literally were dragging their leg.

What type of imaging are you getting???

But it could be pubic stress fracture with his symptoms

I would have your Physical Therapists to check you for SI joint dysfunction if your MRI is negative. It causes most of your symptoms and you will have low back tightness and pain over your SI joint.

The doc didn't think it was consistent with labral tear and thought far more likely to be stress fracture as was pisitive for all the tests e.g. foot dangle etc. But she is thorough so I getting a athrogram as well as MRI to cover both possiblities and now on crutches until I find out! PT US - The PT checked my SI joint and no problems there....so will just have to wait and see what the MRI says!

Osteitis pubis you can rule out with bone scan

Sports hernia is much more difficult because it is a diagnosis of exclusion

To Neliah2507:

I would hugely hugely hugely appreciate it if you could respond to this message with advice. I appreciate your posts and have been trying to seeka response from you or others who know about labrum tears and FAI and how they can cause referred issues. My email is

dforster4@yahoo.com

So here is my little tale of pain and discomfort:

In the fall of 2011 I weighed 250 lbs at a height of 5'9. I was out of shape to say the least. I started running and doing P90x/Insantiy videos to lose weight and get in shape. Boy did it work!! I lost 72 lbs in about a year's time and was on top of the world. I got addicted to fitness and felt wonderful.

On September 1st 2013 I began to feel tightness in upper hamstring right below the right buttock. Two days later it moved into the groin/upper inner thigh/adductor area. It can be described as a truly severe tightness while at rest and dull pain that HAS NOT GONE AWAY in 11 months!! September 14th 2013 my right testicle began to ache and two days later my lower abdomen began to feel tight and painful. This has ALSO not resolved in 11 months. I fel the two must be related since they started almost at the same time and have both been so chronic and constant in nature

I have seen every single doc in the San Francisco Bay area it seems and FINALLY they found Cam and Pincer impingement on both hips (right side more severe) and a severe labrum tear on the right side. An orthopedic surgeon wants to go in and fix the impingement and do what he can with the labrum even though it is pretty much un-reparable he says by looking at the MRI arthogram.

Another sports doc thinks i should just strengthen my core and adductors to battle the discomfort. This has not worked after two weeks at all and in fact my leg as we speak is as terribly tight as ever.

So my question is: Do you feel arthoscopic surgery on the right hip could resolve the abdominal/adductor discomfort that has literally ruined my life? Could they be related?? Nobody can give me a straight answer about whether the FAI/labrum tear are the epicenter of my issues or not. I have even had a colonoscopy to see if the abdominal stuff is an intestinal issue. It is not of course ;)

Please help!

Thanks so much to you all for reading.

I've had hip surgery twice. The bottom line is once you start having pain in your hip, it is degenerative in nature. No, you don\'t have to stop running. I\'ve had one of my labral tears reattached and the other tore a couple years ago and I\'ve been running fine, I don\'t feel like a spring chicken and my 5k isn\'t as fast but over the marathon I think I\'m quite comparable to what I would have done a few years ago anyway. If the pain is only a 2 out of 10, just run with it and manage the pain in the ways that work for you. If it is worse, go get it worked on, but the hip surgery is a long recovery, don\'t expect to run a good marathon for at least a yr and a half to two yrs.

Ace in the troll: What were your symptoms? Did you ever have chronic tightness in the groin/uper inner thigh/addcutor or lower abdominal issues? I am not worried about my running times but just want to be pain free and discomfort free so that I can live an active life without having the constant torture of symptoms. I love to run but not worried about the speed. Going on a nice 5 mile run is absolutely delightful ;)

I have been having "hip" pain. The pain has been referred to my SIJ, glute med and max, aadductors, Sartorius, into my knee, and even inot my lower leg. I went and saw a ortho surgeon who sent me for an MRI on my hip to ck for labral tear/FAI. Came back as tendonosis of the gluteus medius at the attachment of the greater trochanter. Google gluteal tendonitis. The extent of the referred pain surprised me e.g the fact it can refer pain as far the knee. I am very happy that I have neither a labral tear, nor FAI, although this pain is incredible.