Catching in the Hip: Labral Tear Recovery Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe hip labral tears and impingement, from a first click in a yoga split or a goalie's butterfly drop to a diagnosis that often took years. Writers were told it was a groin strain, their back, having a baby, the menopause or simply their age, and several had a first scan that showed nothing. They include a plumber at five-a-side, a ballet student of nineteen, a sheep farmer who booked surgery around the farm calendar, a firefighter facing his annual fitness test, an emergency nurse, a hotel cleaner without insurance, a taekwondo teacher and a retired mail carrier who wanted to get down on the floor with his grandchildren, from Tulsa and Savannah to Gdansk, Amman and Nairobi. Treatments include physiotherapy and resistance bands, injections that bought a season, hip arthroscopy on one or both sides, weeks with a machine moving the leg, and a bike fit two centimetres lower. Several were advised by their surgeon not to operate, one chose to wait through pregnancy, and one learned her pain came from tendons rather than the tear on the scan. Outcomes vary honestly: a second operation after the first failed, a scope that bought two years before a replacement, a slower marathon runner, high kicks given up, and low moods during rehab.

Who it's for

For anyone with a catching, clicking hip still searching for a diagnosis, deciding whether to have surgery or counting the weeks on crutches, and for the people who carry the laundry upstairs for them.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 282 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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