The case is reported of a professional footballer with a tear of the acetabular labrum. The clinical findings, treatment, and rehabilitation are described as well as a discussion of the difficulties ...

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 ...

Labral tears in the shoulder (glenoid labrum) are more common the in the hip (acetabular labrum). There are two general types of hip labral tears: degenerative tears and traumatic injuries.