Hip Pain/Aching

You have bilateral labral tears. Go get an MRI arthrogram.

gooey! wrote:

You have bilateral labral tears. Go get an MRI arthrogram.

Any confirmations/other thoughts?

I have a similar feeling in my hip/groin area, and a sneaking suspicion that I have a labral tear. I have a doctor's appointment scheduled. This isn't helpful at all--sorry--more of a bump because I'm interested in what other people will say.

HP wrote:

gooey! wrote:

You have bilateral labral tears. Go get an MRI arthrogram.

Any confirmations/other thoughts?

Well, I've had 2 labral tears. The first one went undiagnosed/misdiagnosed for about 5 months. I had "snapping hip syndrome," a "groin strain," "iliopsoas tendinitis," and "bursitis." It turned out to be a labral tear, a torn ligament, and a femoral neck stress reaction (because I ran on it for so long.) The other one was diagnosed fairly quickly because I knew it felt similar to the other hip when I had a labral tear. Labral tears have been very common lately, especially in runners... So I advise you to get it checked out and possibly get an MRI arthrogram.

Side note-I'm completely guessing. It just sounded like you had "mysterious hip pain" so I jumped to a conclusion. I still recommend checking it out though.

Pain in the front portion of you thigh like that is probably inflammation to the rectus femoris quad muscle. You'd know if you had a fracture because you'd see swelling. I'm guessing it's an overuse injury of the quads... pretty common. Be careful you don't take it to something worse: been there, done that. Have you tried hydrotherapy, rest and massage?

This may help identify the area of pain:

www.exrx.netMuscles/Quadriceps.html

Try clicking on related muscles highlighted in blue at the bottom left of the page. This link is useful for finding exercises to strengthen various muscle groups as well. Good Luck.

Sorry:

www.exrx.net/Muscles/Quadriceps.html

It could be that your glutes are very tight. If your glutes are tight then your hip flexors have to strain to lift your leg in opposition to them. I've been struggling with this hip pain, and it primarily happens when I do a combination of hip flexion and adduction. that is, lifting the knee up towards my chest and inward toward the mid-line.

Before assuming something rash like a labral tear, which actually is not that common, try stretching your glutes/ hip rotators using pigeon pose, and this one:

http://www.drillsandskills.com/stretching/Glute/gt001

.

Also it may help to roll out your glutes with a foam roller and try the foam roller on your hip flexor too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nAwlsctqBs

I bet the latter will be "eye opening" for you.

Agree. Good post.

Yeah, I have been doing a stretch before I run where I pull my knee to my chest...

I'll definitely check out those stretches.

I have something similar, started in April and got worse as I went along. In August I decided to stop running and still havent started back yet. Went to the doc in early Dec. He wanted to go with a month of PT and re-evaluate and maybe go for an MRI. I just finished the month of PT. They did a lot of stretching me out, and had me do lots of strength traning. I was starting to feel a little better just before PT started and feel even better now but I still have some pain on certain movements. Before I couldn't even walk over a mile without pain. Now after my 30 minutes on the elliptical I do a 2 mile walk. It's pain free so far. I bumped up to a 3 mile walk this morning with no problem. I'm going to continue with increasing the walk miles. If that continues to go well I'm going to try a test run at some point. I'm going to continue with all the strength training, bought some ankle wrap weights and can do most of the stuff at home or at the club. I think I'm coming out of it. I may have had a minor labral tear but they think it's more tightness and imbalances. Havent ran in 5 months and I'm getting depressed a bit but there is some optimism coming back too. It's really tough because I'm 52 and ran my fastest marathon (3:01) a little over a year ago and now even if I can run pain free again I have to basically start from scratch.

If I were you I'd do the PT thing also. Theres plenty of exercises you can find on the net but for me I really needed someone to guide my through it. They also gave to a plan to continue with which was good.

I ran 5-6 miles today, starting a little fast at around 7min per mile. At around the 1.5 mile mark, I started to feel a little tightness in the same area that my injury is, and started to slow down. I felt this tightness for most of the run, but then started to feel a little pain with around 1 mile left. I stopped with around .75 miles left as a result of the pain building up, stretched a little, and then continued at a very slow jog, while I could still feel a little pain in the groin/hip area.

Before my run, I also did those stretches and have not run for four days before this.

a pain in the groin area is the telltale sign of impingement. i've had it on both hips and have had surgery on both. if it's impinged, you probably also have a labral tear. get an mri.

Possibly just some good ol' fashioned osteoarthritis of the hip joint. I had similar pain, had MRI arthrogram which showed 2 tears, but the x-ray also showed arthritis and cysts (a further development of the osteoarthritis). I'm running basically pain free right now after some PT -- anterior stretching, posterior strengthening to get my pelvis less anteriorly rotated. We'll see how long this sustains me.....

OP,

Before the onset of the pain, did you recently start doing some/a lot more hip flexor stretches? Loosening those guys will produce pain/fatigue when you run again until you activate/strengthen them by doing some exaggerated hip flexions.

I hope the solution is this simple. Breaks are a bitch. Good luck.

Procrastinator wrote:

OP,

Before the onset of the pain, did you recently start doing some/a lot more hip flexor stretches? Loosening those guys will produce pain/fatigue when you run again until you activate/strengthen them by doing some exaggerated hip flexions.

I hope the solution is this simple. Breaks are a bitch. Good luck.

I did start doing lunges and squats at the beginning of the winter, although the pain is more in the front hip/groin area.