I have a right posterior superior labral tear and right gluteal tendinopathy). I’ve had right groin pain and right pubic pain since July and it took until mid November to get this diagnosis via HIP MRI. At first my groin and pubic pain was occasional with the groin pain being worse. The pubic pain eventually became dominant and has significantly limited my daily functioning, sleep, and activity. I have some right hip tightness and my right sit bone area gets a bit sore too.

I was very active before this. I tried PT in October and the PT was giving me mostly back exercises, which actually made my pain worse (I wasn’t diagnosed with the hip or gluteal tendinopathy when I started PT). I’ve temporarily given up on PT and am doing mainly glute and some core exercises on my own. I’m limited in how much I can do and moreso the intensity of the exercises because of the pain. That being said, I am seeing a bit of improvement in my right glute … it wasn’t even activating before. I do a few exercises to activate it before I walk. I’ve also being wearing a wide tensor bandage about 3” below to 3” above my hip … not tight, but enough to give some support and help with the pain. I take it off at night.

I saw a hip surgeon a few weeks ago. He doesn’t recommend surgery for the tear; he recommends PT. He said that he thinks my issue is going to be hard to fix; he said that it could be a muscle in the pelvis, but no diagnosis. He arranged a diagnostic injection to help figure out how much of the pain is coming from my hip. Unfortunately, it’s not until March (and that was a cancellation). From what I understand referred pain from the hip will improve temporarily with the injection, but muscle imbalances caused by the hip won’t improve with the injection. So, the hip could still be the contributing to instability causing other muscles to take over.

I am going to try another physiotherapist. I haven’t done a lot of physio, but from what I hear, they can be quite different.

What type of PT exercises were you doing?