What causes hip pain?

John Randolph Medical Center - HCA Virginia

The hip is made up of tendons, ligaments, bone muscle and nerve endings. Many things can cause you to feel hip pain. The most common cause is osteoarthritis. Other causes include:

hip bursitis
arthritis around the hip
avascular necrosis
trauma
rheumatoid arthritis
sciatica
herniated disc

Sometimes, groin pain from a hernia is mistaken for hip pain.

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Pain

Pain is your body telling you that you have hurt it. This is a good thing, important when you are injured. It can also help diagnose problems with your body. Sometimes pain continues long after it's necessary. Amputees report phantom pain in the legs or arms they no longer have. There are different kinds of pain, and describing the type is useful in diagnosis: recurring, constant, steady, knife-like, radiating, sharp, dull. Medicines that dull pain are analgesics. Those that kill all feeling are anesthetics.

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