Former Coventry City striker Kevin Kyle feels that his season could be over.
The Scot now at Hearts is struggling to beat off a hip injury and has not played since January.
Speaking to BBC Scotland, Kyle said: "The physio might disagree, but to me I can't see much more action for myself from now and the end of the season.
"I can get through a lot of pains, but this one I can't."
Kyle was given an injection last week to try and help but he went on: "I was quite hopeful that that would be it, but now the injection is wearing off, the pain is coming back.
"So it looks like the problem lies within my hip joint and obviously I have had a hip problem years ago and I'll try another injection to see if that can completely cure it.
"But, if that doesn't, it will probably look like a bit of surgery, but we'll find that out in the next week or two and take it from there.
"It's not good news or news I wanted to hear, but these things happen as a footballer."