It is a long-term problem which the 32-year-old has played through in the past, but as he is out with an ankle ligament injury an operation has been pencilled in.
He will fly out to Colarado, USA, next week to have the surgery.
"He is still two or three weeks away from training because of his ankle and the medical opinion is that a minor operation can sort his hip," Bluebirds boss Dave Jones told the South Wales Echo.