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Your hip
Turn the hip, tap a part, and switch between before and after surgery to see what was repaired.
Labrum
A ring of cartilage around the rim of the socket.
Impingement, dysplasia, injury or overuse can tear it. It is repaired back to the bone, or reconstructed with a graft in some revision cases.
In the model: Shown torn (red) at the rim of the socket.
A right hip from CT-based anatomy. Labrum, cartilage, capsule and tendon are illustrated, not exact. Your surgeon will explain your own findings.
Bone models adapted from the HuBMAP Human Reference Atlas 3D Reference Object Library (Visible Human Male), licensed CC BY 4.0; cropped, merged, simplified and re-centered.
See a real cam bump on X-ray and through the arthroscope, before and after surgery