So, you have hip pain, but the X-rays and MRI are normal. Now what? Now your doctor may want to consider that you might have hip impingement, formally known as Femoroacetabular Impingement. Considering the anatomy of the hip joint as a ball and socket joint, this diagnosis is really not surprising because some bones just do not fit together perfectly to form a perfectly symmetrical, precise joint. The hip joint is a ball and socket joint. Sometimes the ball is not perfectly round and sometimes...
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