Mine is really IT band. Knees though….I’ll end up getting those replaced in my 50’s. One just has a sliver of cartilage left. Done a lot of therapy on run form and particular strengthening around my knee to remove stress.
You don't need roids to impress people, once you get to certain age, just being in shape and still able to out perform 75% of the population can make you a roll model.
I wasn't trying to give you a hard time, this is literally what I do for work and no not a bad guess. I'm just used to patients coming in and pointing at their back or their thigh and thinking they need a hip replacement. Usually I'm like, what you need is to stretch more (seriously).
My situation was a little weird. I had a labrum that was intact, but almost fully detached as a result of years of falling in martial arts. I had an isolated, small patch of full-depth arthritis with exposed bone in the acetabulum but we caught it early so no osteyphytes, for all that it hurt so much I couldn't sleep. I ended up with a labrum repair, femoroplasty, and cartilage microfracture, all through scope. The whole process was supposed to buy me 5 years against a hip replacement, maybe 10. It's been going on eight now and there's no sign of joint space narrowing or spurs in my last xray. It's not perfect - I have persistent psoas/adductor tendinitis and it still aches some if I get dehydrated or spend too much or not enough time sitting over a few days, but it's livable indefinitely, not obviously progressing, and I'm in no hurry for a prosthetic.I wasn't trying to give you a hard time, this is literally what I do for work and no not a bad guess. I'm just used to patients coming in and pointing at their back or their thigh and thinking they need a hip replacement. Usually I'm like, what you need is to stretch more (seriously).
Sounds (and looks like) you had some osteophytes (bone spurs) and the labral tear. Was your procedure done through a scope? Ironically, those typically take longer than total hip replacements and a lot of docs don't do them because they're a pain in the ass.
Repaired labrum is at the 12 position, it's like a gasket that helps secure the femoral head (ball) to the acetabulum (socket).
The big white sphere peeking into the picture at the 7 position is the femoral head, it's being distracted from the socket with traction in order to work/take this picture.
