Understanding Hip Pain

Understanding WHY your hip hurts is the first step to finding a solution.

IS PAIN COMING FROM
INSIDE OR OUTSIDE
THE HIP JOINT?

ARTHRITIS AND LABRUM TEARS CAUSES
PAIN INSIDE THE JOINT.
BURSITIS IS OUTSIDE.

BURSITIS

VERSUS

ARTHRITIS

You can reproduce
the pain by pushing
in one spot on your
outer thigh

Treated through
injection and
therapeutic exercise

The pain is not on the
surface, its down
deep where you can’t
put your finger on it

May ultimately
require total hip
replacement

JOINT PAIN CAN BE ARTHRITIS OR A TORN LABRUM

know the Difference

Arthritis

Torn Labrum

Begins slowly as an
ache

Sharp pain that
comes on suddenly

Worse in the
morning and
evening

Not time or weather
sensitive

Hurts while
walking

Triggered by certain
movements

Reduced range of motion. May
ultimately require total hip
replacement

Normal range of
motion outside the
painful ones.Treated by
arthroscopic labral
repair procedure

Act now before it’s too late

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