Labral Hip Tear Surgery. The first arthroscopic hip surgeries took place in the 1980s and it has become a routinely performed surgical procedure today. If you have a labral tear but don t have hip dysplasia or other structural problems in your joint you can have a hip arthroscopy to treat the damage.
This procedure is done when the labrum is too damaged to repair but the hip joint is otherwise healthy. A hip labral tear can be treated nonsurgically or with surgery in severe cases. Special surgical tools and a video camera are inserted through 2 to 4 incisions that are approximately 1 cm long.
Your doctor will insert a small camera into your joint and then use surgical instruments to repair the damage to your labrum.
A hip labral tear can be treated nonsurgically or with surgery in severe cases. If you have a labral tear but don t have hip dysplasia or other structural problems in your joint you can have a hip arthroscopy to treat the damage. If a hip labral tear causes significant hip pain and symptoms do not improve with medical treatment or therapeutic injections nyu langone doctors may recommend surgery to repair or reconstruct the labrum and fix any underlying structural abnormality that may have caused the labral tear. If you are a candidate for hip arthroscopy our orthopedic surgeons offer.
