Causes of Hip Pain in Hockey Players - hip impingement from hockey?

What are the causes of hip pain in Hockey? Viewer Brian asks: is hockey bad for hip impingement? Does hockey damage the hips? Does hockey cause hip impingement? Does hockey cause hip pain? If you have hip pain, should you give up playing hockey altogether?

One of the biggest myths circulating in the world of sports medicine is that FAI bone shapes cause hip pain, and that hockey can lead to FAI bone shapes. In fact, several studies have already shown that femoroacetabular impingement bone shapes are unrelated to hip pain and hip range of motion problems. References here: https://www.thefaifix.com/bones-dont-cause-fai-pain

And some doctors have gone on record as saying they believe hip impingement is a result of training and exercise rather than bone shapes.
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Still, skating in hockey can lead to more hip pain for people with hip impingement. Why? It seems much more plausible that hockey skating can lead to an increase in hip impingement symptoms due to the muscle activity and repetitive patterns being trained. If you constanbtly train the same motions, you'lll be under-training muscles around your hips. You will lose full range of motion and encounter hip impingement symptoms as a result of poor hip training protocols.

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