Hip Joint Pain

Hip Fracture Odds Rise With Women’s Age

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What’s Behind Hip Bursitis?

This is a great little article on Hip Bursitis

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Will Your Joint Replacement Last?

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Exercise Treatments for Arthritis Pain Relief : Strengthening the Hip & Knee Joint: Exercise Treatment for Arthritis Pain Relief

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Hip joint pain — the effects of being overweight

Being overweight can cause hip joint pain for at least three reasons. Before we look at these reasons, we need to understand how the hip joint is constructed. The hip is a ball and socket joint, the leg side is the ball, and the pelvis side is the socket. This ball and socket construction allows the hip joint to move in several directions and provides critical flexibility for core movement. Both the end of the ball and the lining of the socket are covered in cartilage and a membrane called a bursa surrounds the whole hip joint; the cartilage and the bursa act as shock absorbers. Both ends of the joint are held in place by ligaments and tendons

So let us look at how weight affects your joint.

1. Excess weight causes pressure on the cartilage. If this excess weight continues, the cartilage will eventually wear out. Once holes have appeared the two ends of the bones will grind together causing intense hip joint pain.
2. The additional weight shows up on your body as additional mass (fat). This additional mass obstructs the natural movement of the hip. So now when you move your hips are forced to move in an unnatural way which can cause pressure on the sites of the pelvic socket and can stretch the ligaments and tendons.
3. When people gain a lot of weight, their activity level tends to be reduced significantly. Specifically they tend to spend more time sitting, as a person starts to lead a more sedentary lifestyle the tendons and ligaments may lose some of their flexibility and can even shorten. If this happens, when a person starts to move this becomes yet another source of hip joint pain.

So, if you find yourself in a situation where you have gained weight and it is causing you hip bone pain the answer may be to lose weight and exercise. Remember to consult your doctor before starting a weight loss program and make sure that your exercise routine starts slowly and includes lots of gentle stretching.

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Physical Therapy Exercises for the Hip and Pelvis : Joint & Muscle Pain: Physical Therapy for the Hip and Pelvis

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Hip Joint Pain

For people that have been be diagnosed with arthritis hip joint pain can become one of the primary problems they face during the upcoming years. In fact, if you have osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis you can, unfortunately, expect hip joint pain for many years to come.

If your symptoms have been diagnosed in the early stages, it may be possible to treat your condition with a combination of nonprescription medication and light therapy and exercise. The first thing to do is visit your health care professional. When you visit, there office be prepared for a full examination and to explain all of your symptoms and the history associated with them. During a physical examination your doctor will probably probe and examine the joint directly, he or she may also get you to walk around the room so that they can observe your movement to try to identify any potential problems such as bone spurs. They may even decide to run a course of x-rays to check that you have enough room around the joint and again to see if any bone spurs are present or if there are any other problems.

As I mentioned earlier, it may be possible to treat your condition using non-prescription medication and light exercise. This really is contingent upon you identifying the problem during its early stages. The first thing to try is to reduce the usage of the hip joint, hopefully this is obvious, if you used the hip joint less you are less likely to suffer from hip joint pain. You may need to be much more careful about carrying things, such as small children and groceries. If you have a job that involves carrying things will significant strenuous activity then you may need to consider changing careers or being reassigned to a less active role. Finally, light exercise can have an extremely beneficial effect on your hip joint pain; just make sure that you choose something that supports you such as swimming or water aerobics.

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