I have very bad pain associated with the popping noise my hip makes with sprinting, this sounds stupid but im afraid to sprint as fast as i can cause im afraid my hips going to pop. My orthopedic thinks its my iliopsoas tendon snapping over one of the bones or whatever. He reccomends i do stretches and try to build up muscle. He did say something about surgery, but he says it wont be possible for me to be a great athete with the surgery cause you lengthen the tendon with some of the muscle. Is this true? Cause if the stretching does not help i have no i dea what i am going to do because it hurts so bad to sprint. Im a very very competitve softball player/pitcher, and i play some basketball. And softball i wont be able to give up. I have tried sitting out for over weeks and still have the same popping, Has anyone had the surgery and still have the same strength in their leg than they did before?