• Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) — Femoro refers to your femur or thigh bone; acetabular refers to your hip socket, the acetabulum. Impingement means to have an effect upon or to strike, especially with a sharp collision. Thus you can imagine why you have hip pain if this is your d...
The femur bone is very strong in young people, but as one ages, the density of the femur bone, as well as all bones, gradually lose their density. And if you have osteoporosis, the rate of loss of bone density progresses much faster. ...