In the last 10 years, acetabular labral tears have been increasingly recognized as a potential cause of hip pain and disability. However, pain in the hip and groin region can be due to a number of causes, and accurate clinical diagnosis is challenging. The following is a summary of a recent paper examining what we currently know about diagnosing symptomatic labral tears. Depending on which study is quoted, the prevalence of acetabular labral tears (ALT) in patients with hip o