Where does it hurt?
Hip joint pain do in the area of the bars, the 'kink' between the thighs and lower abdomen felt. In many cases, they radiate in one or both legs. Conversely, pain in the lumbar spine, the hips in broadcast.
Many patients confuse the hip pain, which is in the range of the strips, with or without other symptoms. They can occur at the pelvis or at the top of the thigh bone. Sometimes hip is also the muscles in the vicinity of the cause, not the hip itself too irritated bursa can cause tenderness.
In rare cases, can also be tumors or certain infectious diseases, the cause of hip pain.
Causes
By far the most common cause of pain at the hip are wear and tear on the joint. , With increasing age there is a breakdown of healthy cartilage. For many people this slide and buffer layer in the joint is destroyed to such an extent that eventually bone meets bone. This can cause severe pain.
This disease is called wear hip osteoarthritis (coxarthrosis) and usually occurs at the advanced age. It can in rare cases, but also meet younger people.
Sources of the hip joint osteoarthritis, in addition to age-related degenerative processes and reducing accidents or injuries to the joints, congenital deformities or consequences of metabolic diseases.
Even a so-called systemic arthritis, where several joints are affected, can cause hip pain. Here, the causes of rheumatic processes or chronic arthritis are.
What to do about hip pain?
In particular, one should give in stronger, regular or permanent pain occurring clarity about its cause, by consulting a specialist. Waiting is not recommended: continuous pain leading to chronic overstimulation of nerve pain, and certain mechanical damage caused by wear and tear beyond repair.
In the therapy is primarily to control pain and the maintenance of the joint. In the early stages of joint pain can be with medication or physical therapy (as heat treatment) for good results. Generally, the earlier the cause of the pain is diagnosed, the faster and better they can be combated.
