Hip Pain Specialist

What is hip pain?

Hip pain is an uncomfortable feeling in or around your hip joint, which connects your pelvic bone to each upper thigh bone. Your hip joint is made up of muscles, bones, ligaments, cartilage, and tendons. Hip pain can feel like a dull ache or a sharp discomfort. It can also be a burning pain.

Other symptoms of hip pain can include:

• Tingling
• Numbness
• Stiffness
• Decreased range of motion
• Reduced mobility
• Warmth
• Swelling
• Weakness
• Instability

Hip pain might result from a disease, injury, or surgery. Finding and treating its root cause can drastically improve your quality of life.

What causes hip pain?

Some of the many contributors to hip pain can include:

• Arthritis
• Joint inflammation
• Dislocation
• Sprains
• Tendinitis
• Fractures
• Sciatica
• Bone cancer
• Pinched nerves
• Osteoporosis
• Labral tears

To find the root cause of your pain, your Orthopaedic Institute of Henderson specialist reviews your symptoms and medical history. They examine your hip joints and often recommend you undergo blood tests, X-rays, MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, or other imaging procedures.

What hip pain treatment choices do I have?

The way your hip pain is treated will depend on what’s causing it and how severe it is. Your orthopedist could recommend one or more of the following treatments:

Physical therapy

Physical therapy offers you strengthening exercises and stretches that can naturally improve the healing of musculoskeletal tissues and reduce your risk of reinjury.

Anti-inflammatory medications

Some medications can reduce inflammation and the hip pain associated with it.

Injections

Certain injections can reduce inflammation and hip pain while better lubricating your joints.

Hip replacement

If you have severe hip joint damage, your orthopedic specialist will likely recommend a total hip replacement to restore the joint. They offer anterior hip replacement as a minimally invasive approach to total hip replacement.

Don’t live with debilitating hip pain when the treatments available at Orthopaedic Institute of Henderson can offer you relief. Call the office today to schedule an appointment or book one online.