Surgery or not
Hi everyone. (25F) I was diagnosed with a partial hip labrum tear on my left hip with an MRI without contrast. My ortho told me I do not need surgery and PT is helping out good bit after just 6 weeks of doing workouts consistently. PT told me to do all the exercises they taught me for the next 4 months to see if they get me back to feeling normal.
My thing is I understand that this may be a small tear but it cannot heal on its own. Why aren’t they recommending me surgery? I know the healing process is not fun and takes a long time to fully recover. I’m only 25, ortho said my hip looks healthy overall (no arthritis) and PT says I have good hip mobility. Will surgery cause early arthritis? They said the goal is to put off surgery until I’m older, but wouldn’t recovery be harder?
I’m just sad, this sucks. Me and my husband really wanted to start a family soon, but now I feel like I can’t. I also heard pregnancy will make the symptoms of my tear worse also possibly make the tear worse 😩
Should I get a second opinion? Thanks for reading.