The causal relationship between labral tears in the hip and hip pain is uncertain, similar to lumbar disc herniations where MRI findings do not always correlate with pain.

“and labral tears I think the jury's out a bit it strikes me as one of those things that's sort of a little bit like lumbar disc herniation where someone can have hip pain you do an MRI they've got a labral tear you're no further ahead than you were before you don't know if that's the cause right”