Quick Overview of Some Front Hip Pain Causes

Are you experiencing front hip pain? If you are you came to the right place to get a quick background and overview of some of the things that could be causing it.

The front hip, in particular, is basically right on top of the hip joint (where your leg attaches) to the front of your body.  This is very different from outer hip pain.

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What’s Causing Your Front Hip Pain

There are too many hip conditions to count, but fortunately, we can still look at some of the most common mechanisms for hip pain by looking at the ones that would specifically cause front hip pain.

Arthritis

Arthritis of the hip is a serious and very common condition.  What it will do to you is make your hip very stiff and over time it will probably start to hurt.  Arthritis is very common in older people especially, although sometimes it can occur in younger people as well.

Snapping hip syndrome

Is the pain only when you perform a certain movement? Does it also come with a snapping sound? This syndrome occurs when a tendon becomes inflamed and gets snagged on a bone during a movement.  It is possible, although not the most likely, that it causes some pain in the front hip depending on the tendon location.

Bursitis

All around our hip joint we have bursae which protect our internal structures from bones.  Some of these are located near the front and when they are inflamed they will cause front hip pain.  Usually, they won’t hurt unless you irritate them by moving or by touching them.

Summary

These are only 3 of the ways that hip pain could be affecting you.  Please go see a doctor and get a thorough 4 steps of hip pain diagnosis to make sure you know what’s wrong before it gets any worse:

Hip Pain Diagnosis Step 1: Patient History

If you think you know what’s causing the pain this is when the doctor will find out.  At the same time, he’ll make sure you have no history of hip pain and see if anything in your history could possibly be causing the pain…pretty standard.  If he can make the diagnosis right there he will, but often it won’t be obvious so he will proceed.

Hip Pain Diagnosis Step 2: Physical Tests

When you go in for a physical your doctor will usually test your reflexes by hitting your knees, the idea of this is the same way.  He will go through the surrounding areas of the hips (don’t worry he won’t hit you) and see if there’s any anomalies or odd responses to touching.

Hip Pain Diagnosis Step 3: Scanning pain diagnosis

Because there are so many types of Hip injuries it will often come down to scanning in order to diagnose the problem.  X-rays can be taken to look at joints and bones, but in some cases where a fracture is suspected an MRI or CT scan may be taken.

Hip Pain Diagnosis Step 4: Blood Tests

Finally, there are certain times where your doctor may suspect inflammation or some other illness that is causing the pain.  In this case, a blood test will be done because certain properties in the blood will identify certain conditions.  For example, elevated white blood cell counts are often associated with inflammation.

That is a typical hip pain diagnosis procedure, but of course, your experience may differ a bit.

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