Hip Pain Treatment

Hip Pain Treatment in Kansas City, MO

Hip pain is a common problem that can have many different causes. The exact spot where your hip hurts can tell you much about what’s causing it.

When something is wrong with the hip joint, it usually hurts on the inside or in the groin. Hip pain outside your hip, upper thigh, or outer buttock is usually caused by problems with the muscles, ligaments, tendons, and other soft tissues surrounding your hip joint.

What Causes Hip Pain?

The hip joint is the largest ball-and-socket joint in the body, and it takes a lot of stress from walking, running, jumping, dancing, and other activities over a lifetime. This wear and tear can cause hip pain in different ways, depending on what part of the hip joint is damaged or inflamed.

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Common Causes of Hip Pain

Common causes of hip pain include but are not limited to:

  • Arthritis – Hip arthritis is damage to the cartilage in the hip joint caused by wear and tear. It’s a common condition that can hurt and get worse over time, making it hard to move around and lowering your quality of life
  • Bursitis – Bursitis is a painful condition that affects the small, fluid-filled sacs near your joints called bursae. These bursae keep your bones, tendons, and muscles from rubbing against each other. When bursae get inflamed, this is called bursitis
  • Tendinitis – Painful inflammation or irritation of a tendon in the hip is called hip tendonitis. It is also called tendonitis of the hip or hip flexor tendonitis. Your hip bends because of a muscle called the iliopsoas muscle, which is connected to your upper thigh by a tendon, and this tendon can get inflamed and cause hip tendonitis if the muscle is overworked from too much activity
  • Hip fracture – A hip fracture is a break in the upper quarter of the thighbone, near the hip joint. It can lead to problems that can be life-threatening. People over 65 are most at risk because aging makes bones weaker and increases the chance of falling
  • Muscle strain – A hip strain or sprain happens when a hip-supporting muscle or ligament is stretched or torn past its limit. Depending on how bad the injury is, you might not be able to move your hip the right way
  • Labral tear – A tear in the labrum of the hip is called a hip labral tear. The acetabulum is the hip socket where the head of the femur or thigh bone sits, and the labrum is the cartilage that lines the acetabulum. Labral tears don’t usually happen all of a sudden and are usually caused over time
  • Hip impingement syndrome – Hip impingement, also called femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), happens when the ball of the hip, or femoral head, presses against the cup of the hip, or acetabulum. When this happens, the labrum can get damaged, which can lead to stiffness and pain in the hip and even arthritis
  • Snapping hip syndrome – When you move your hip joint, you may feel like something is catching or hear a pop or click in your hip. This is a condition called “snapping hip syndrome.” If you put your hand over your hip, you might feel or even see the snap when you walk, run, bend, or stand up from a chair. This problem can happen in either hip, and it doesn’t always cause pain

Conditions

Knee Surgery
ACL Surgery
Discoid Meniscus
Knee Arthritis
Kneecap Bursitis
Knee Osteonecrosis
Knee Tendon Bursitis
Osgood-Schlatter Disease
Runner's Knee
Mako SmartRobotics™
CORI Surgical System

Common Treatments for Hip Pain

Non-surgical methods to help relieve your hip pain include the following:

  • Injections and infusions – Some medications can be injected right into the hip to relieve the pain, which can include corticosteroids, which are used to reduce inflammation. With infusion therapy, anti-inflammatory drugs are given through the veins or directly into the muscles.
  • Lifestyle changes – We might ask you to make some changes to the way you live, like losing weight, doing low-impact exercises to take pressure off your hip, and using a cane or walker to make walking less painful.
  • Pain medications – People often take over-the-counter painkillers like acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen (Advil and Motrin) to ease hip pain. We might also suggest other prescription drugs, like antirheumatic drugs.
  • Physical and Occupational Therapy – Physical therapy includes rehabilitation medicine and exercise programs that can stretch and strengthen the muscles and soft tissues around your hip joint to make it more flexible and stable. Occupational therapy involves changing the way you do everyday things, which may also help relieve hip pain by keeping your hip from being put under too much stress.

Below are some surgical options for hip pain depending on the cause of your pain:

  • Hip replacement – Total hip replacement is the most common surgery used to treat pain in the hip that makes it hard to move. In a total hip replacement, a damaged or arthritic hip’s ball and socket are taken out and replaced with an artificial hip joint
  • Bilateral hip replacement – Depending on how you feel and how healthy you are, you may be able to get both hips replaced at the same time. With this procedure, you’ll only have one recovery period, so you can get back to your normal life faster
  • Hip arthroscopy – During hip arthroscopy, the doctor makes small incisions near your hip so they can look inside your hip joint. For this procedure, they use arthroscopes, which are small cameras and instruments that help them find and fix damaged tissue. When a hip arthroscopy is done, the doctor can:
    • Remove any loose cartilage, which is the smooth, white coating between bones
    • Remove or fix tears in the cartilage of the hip
    • Treat hip pain that is often caused by hip joint impingement
    • Take a biopsy for testing
    • Treat joint pain caused by inflammation in the lining of the joint
    • Repair a torn hip labrum
  • Hip resurfacing – Hip resurfacing is an alternative to total hip replacement that may help younger, more active people with hip pain avoid or put off getting a new hip. Only the damaged parts of the joint are taken out and replaced with a smooth metal surface during hip resurfacing

Treatment for Hip Pain

Specialists at Orthopedic Health of KC work closely with you to determine the best treatment options for your condition, personal needs, and way of life. As much as possible, we focus on conservative, non-invasive ways to treat and manage hip pain. However, we use the most up-to-date methods when hip surgery is needed.

Are you struggling with hip pain and looking for the best course of treatment? Check out our locations here to see which one will best fit your needs, and give us a call at (816)296-6843 or book an appointment online.

Orthopedic Hip Doctors

If you have any of the symptoms mentioned above, please contact Orthopedic Health of Kansas City and make an appointment with one of our Kansas City hip specialists. They will perform a complete examination, diagnosing and ultimately treating any problem. From simple physical therapy to complicated surgery, you’re in good hands with Orthopedic Health of Kansas City and we will do what it takes to get you active again.

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