Originally Posted by
Will Morris
Hip surgery and the statement "that only sets me back a few weeks, yet offers a vast improvement" is comical. For one, hip surgery is not something that anyone living in reality would assume would be better in a few weeks. Further, hip surgeries are not as successful as one might hope. Alex Rodriquez had 250 million reasons to get better after his bilateral labral repairs, and, yet, the greatest baseball player of his generation did not.
The alternating deep buttock and groin pain does lead me to believe this is intra-articular, but I don't know if I would immediately assume labral tear. Since you have been running for a long time and you are very irritable, I might suggest that FAI is (at this point and in my humble, very uneducated opinion) a better working hypothesis. Then again, I can't see your squat or other movement patterns from here, so what do I know? I'm just some anonymous dude on the internet.