Vaginal tears are regularly discussed as a birth complication—but hip tears? You don’t hear much about those. But medical experts report more and more women that have a torn hip labrum as a result of giving birth, according to Benjamin Domb, MD, medical director at American Hip Institute and director of orthopedic surgery at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital.

(For those not up on their anatomy, the labrum is the tissue that connects the hip’s ball and socket joint.)

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