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Hip Pain

Hip Pain
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Hip pain can present in different ways. The typical area of pain due to hip joint is the groin pain. However, people often experience pain in the C shaped area around the side below the waist all the way from front to back to the gluteus. Some experience pain in the knee due to radiation of the pain to knee from the hip.

Symptoms

Pain: Around the hip area and the knee. Hip pain is first felt in rotational movement such as trying to sit and wear a sock or sitting cross legged. Getting up from low chairs becomes difficult. Later pain can affect the walking distance.
Stiffness: Limitation of the thigh movements inwards and outwards is often the first problem experienced. Later other movements also get affected.
Locking and Catching: Clicking sounds in certain movements or even getting stuck in particular movements is another symptom more commonly experienced in young adults with hip problems.

Conditions

AVN Hip (Avasular Necrosis)
Osteoarthritis of hip
Hip Dysplasia
Sequelae of Perthes disease as a child
SCFE (Slipped capital femoral epiphysis)
Hip Labral tear
FAI (Femoro Acetabular Impingement)
Stress fracture
Hip Fracture

When to see the Doctor?

The persistent hip pain or pain which keeps recurring in certain hip movement with or without clicks needs the attention of the Doctor. If there is sudden pain and inability to bear weight in elderly women that needs to be assessed for the femoral (thigh bone) neck fracture. Often they may not be able to give a proper history of injury, however a low threshold to rule out any osteoporotic (bone thinning) fracture is recommended.

Prevention of hip pain

Maintaining good Quadriceps (thigh muscle) strength
Flexibility of hip and knee
Foot and knee pain management so that stress on hip reduces.