Hip Pain
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Symptoms
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pain in adults
pain in children
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Hip Pain Underlying Cause
Common causes
for hip pain include:
Gout
Herniated disk
Hip bursitis
Hip dislocation
Hip fracture
Hip injury
Hip sprain
Hip strain
Hip synovitis
Iliotibial band syndrome
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Osteoarthritis
Piriformis syndrome
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica
Statin myopathy
Synovitis of the hip
Venous insufficiency
Less common causes
for hip pain include:
Abdominal wall hernia
(
ventral hernia
)
Can cause referred pain to the hip
Ankylosing spondylitis
Avascular necrosis of the hip
Bone cancer
Crohn's disease
Deep venous thrombosis
Fibromyalgia
Hypophosphatasia
Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve syndrome
Lupus
Lyme disease
Perthes disease
Pseudogout
Psoriatic arthritis
Reiter's syndrome
Septic arthritis
Sickle cell anemia
:
Usually in
sickle cell crisis
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Still's disease
Ulcerative colitis
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Hip Pain Anatomy
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Hip bursitis
Hip dislocation
Hip fracture
Hip sprain
Hip strain
Hip synovitis
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Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
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Hip injury
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Last Updated: Feb 23, 2009
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Stephen J. Schueler, MD
;
John H. Beckett, MD
;
D. Scott Gettings, MD
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Hip Pain References:
Baber YF, Robinson AH, Villar RN. Is diagnostic arthroscopy of the hip worthwhile? A prospective review of 328 adults investigated for hip pain. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1999 Jul;81(4):600-3.
Byrd JW. Labral lesions: an elusive source of hip pain case reports and literature review. Arthroscopy. 1996 Oct;12(5):603-12.
Shbeeb MI, O'Duffy JD, Michet CJ Jr, O'Fallon WM, Matteson EL. Evaluation of glucocorticosteroid injection for the treatment of trochanteric bursitis. J Rheumatol. 1996 Dec;23(12):2104-6.
