Hip
Labral tear of the hip joint:
A hip labral tear involves the ring of cartilage (labrum) that goes around the outside rim of the socket of your hip joint. As well as cushioning the hip joint, the labrum acts like a rubber seal to help hold the ball at the top of your thighbone securely within your hip socket.
Some athletes have a higher risk of a hip labral tear, particularly those who participate in such sports as:
• Football
• Golf
• Ballet
• Hockey
Structural abnormalities of the hip also can lead to a hip labral tear.
Causes:
• Repetitive use
• Traumatic sports injury due to fall or sudden twisting movement
Symptoms:
• Clicking or snapping feeling in the hip
• Groin pain
• Limited motion in the hip joint
Treatment:
• Physical therapy
• Rest
• Anti-inflammatory medications
A hip labral tear involves the ring of cartilage (labrum) that goes around the outside rim of the socket of your hip joint. As well as cushioning the hip joint, the labrum acts like a rubber seal to help hold the ball at the top of your thighbone securely within your hip socket.
Some athletes have a higher risk of a hip labral tear, particularly those who participate in such sports as:
• Football
• Golf
• Ballet
• Hockey
Structural abnormalities of the hip also can lead to a hip labral tear.
Causes:
• Repetitive use
• Traumatic sports injury due to fall or sudden twisting movement
Symptoms:
• Clicking or snapping feeling in the hip
• Groin pain
• Limited motion in the hip joint
Treatment:
• Physical therapy
• Rest
• Anti-inflammatory medications
Snapping Hip Syndrome:
Snapping hip syndrome (SHS) (coxa saltans) is a hip disorder. A person with SHS may feel a snapping sensation or hear a snapping sound when they move their hip joint. When muscle tendons become inflamed, often from overuse, they can click as they rub over the hip socket bone.
SHS can affect people of all genders and ages, but is more common in women.
There are three main types of snapping hip syndrome:
• Internal.
This type occurs when your tendons slide over bone structures at the front of your hip joint.
• External.
With this type, your tendon or muscle slides over bone at the top of your thigh bone, or femur.
• Intra-articular.
In this category, a snapping hip is caused by an actual hip joint issue or injury. Unlike external or internal SHS, intra-articular SFS isn’t caused by a tendon or muscle.
Whilst often SHS is harmless, it can increase risk for joint damage. For dancers and athletes in particular, more serious cases of this condition can cause pain and affect overall performance.
What causes snapping hip syndrome?
SHS is often caused by your hip tendon or muscle sliding over bone. As the muscle stretches, it creates tension that results in a snapping sensation when released as the hip moves.
The underlying cause of snapping hip depends on the type of SHS:
Internal Snapping Hip Syndrome:
This form of SHS occurs when your hip muscle or tendons slide over the front of your hip joint. It’s usually caused when your iliopsoas tendon — the tendon connecting your inner hip muscles to your thigh bone — moves over the pelvic bone. Another cause of this condition is when your quadriceps muscle moves over the ball part of your hip’s ball-and-socket joint.
Internal SHS is the second most common form of this disorder. People with internal snapping hip often experience a gradual onset of symptoms that worsen over time. They may experience pain near the groin and hear popping when they run.
External Snapping Hip Syndrome:
External SHS occurs when the iliotibial band slides over the top of your femur, an area called the greater trochanter, along the outside. This is the most common type of SHS.
People with this form of SHS may experience snapping while running or climbing stairs. They may also experience some pain and tenderness on the outside of the hip. It often hurts to lie on this hip at night, and the pain may worsen over time.
Intra-articular Snapping Hip Syndrome:
Unlike internal and external SHS, intra-articular SHS isn’t caused from a muscle or tendon. Instead, a hip joint injury or issue can trigger this condition.
Common causes of intra-articular SHS include:
• Articular cartilage injury, or injury to the cartilage that lines the ball or the socket of the hip joint
• Acetabular labral tear, or injury to cartilage that rings your hip socket
• Broken bone fragments of loose tissue that become trapped between your hip’s ball-and-socket joint
This type of SHS can occur suddenly from trauma or injury.
What are the symptoms?
As its name indicates, SHS can result in an audible snapping or clicking sound. It often causes no pain, but you may feel a clicking or popping sensation when flexing your hip.
Other symptoms you may experience with this condition include:
• Pain
• Inflammation
• Leg muscle weakness when trying to lift your leg sideways or forward
• Swelling
• Difficulty with regular physical activity such as walking or rising from your chair
• Feeling your hip is coming out of place
How is this disorder treated?
SHS is often painless and may not require medical treatment. You may need physical therapy to increase your range of motion or steroid injections for pain relief. There are also exercises you can do to strengthen and stretch your surrounding muscles and relieve symptoms.
Snapping hip syndrome (SHS) (coxa saltans) is a hip disorder. A person with SHS may feel a snapping sensation or hear a snapping sound when they move their hip joint. When muscle tendons become inflamed, often from overuse, they can click as they rub over the hip socket bone.
SHS can affect people of all genders and ages, but is more common in women.
There are three main types of snapping hip syndrome:
• Internal.
This type occurs when your tendons slide over bone structures at the front of your hip joint.
• External.
With this type, your tendon or muscle slides over bone at the top of your thigh bone, or femur.
• Intra-articular.
In this category, a snapping hip is caused by an actual hip joint issue or injury. Unlike external or internal SHS, intra-articular SFS isn’t caused by a tendon or muscle.
Whilst often SHS is harmless, it can increase risk for joint damage. For dancers and athletes in particular, more serious cases of this condition can cause pain and affect overall performance.
What causes snapping hip syndrome?
SHS is often caused by your hip tendon or muscle sliding over bone. As the muscle stretches, it creates tension that results in a snapping sensation when released as the hip moves.
The underlying cause of snapping hip depends on the type of SHS:
Internal Snapping Hip Syndrome:
This form of SHS occurs when your hip muscle or tendons slide over the front of your hip joint. It’s usually caused when your iliopsoas tendon — the tendon connecting your inner hip muscles to your thigh bone — moves over the pelvic bone. Another cause of this condition is when your quadriceps muscle moves over the ball part of your hip’s ball-and-socket joint.
Internal SHS is the second most common form of this disorder. People with internal snapping hip often experience a gradual onset of symptoms that worsen over time. They may experience pain near the groin and hear popping when they run.
External Snapping Hip Syndrome:
External SHS occurs when the iliotibial band slides over the top of your femur, an area called the greater trochanter, along the outside. This is the most common type of SHS.
People with this form of SHS may experience snapping while running or climbing stairs. They may also experience some pain and tenderness on the outside of the hip. It often hurts to lie on this hip at night, and the pain may worsen over time.
Intra-articular Snapping Hip Syndrome:
Unlike internal and external SHS, intra-articular SHS isn’t caused from a muscle or tendon. Instead, a hip joint injury or issue can trigger this condition.
Common causes of intra-articular SHS include:
• Articular cartilage injury, or injury to the cartilage that lines the ball or the socket of the hip joint
• Acetabular labral tear, or injury to cartilage that rings your hip socket
• Broken bone fragments of loose tissue that become trapped between your hip’s ball-and-socket joint
This type of SHS can occur suddenly from trauma or injury.
What are the symptoms?
As its name indicates, SHS can result in an audible snapping or clicking sound. It often causes no pain, but you may feel a clicking or popping sensation when flexing your hip.
Other symptoms you may experience with this condition include:
• Pain
• Inflammation
• Leg muscle weakness when trying to lift your leg sideways or forward
• Swelling
• Difficulty with regular physical activity such as walking or rising from your chair
• Feeling your hip is coming out of place
How is this disorder treated?
SHS is often painless and may not require medical treatment. You may need physical therapy to increase your range of motion or steroid injections for pain relief. There are also exercises you can do to strengthen and stretch your surrounding muscles and relieve symptoms.
Trochanteric Bursitis:
Bursae are small, fluid-filled sacs that are located throughout the body, including around the shoulder, elbow, hip, knee, and heel. They are filled with a small amount of fluid, and act as cushions to help reduce friction, as they are positioned between bones and soft tissues.
Bursitis is inflammation of the bursa. There are two major bursae in the hip that typically become inflamed and irritated. One bursa covers the bony point of the hip bone, which is called the Greater Trochanter. Inflammation of this bursa is called trochanteric bursitis.
Hip bursitis most often involves the bursa that covers the greater trochanter of the femur, although the iliopsoas bursa can also become inflamed.
Symptoms:
The main symptom of trochanteric bursitis is hip pain. The pain usually moves outwards towards the outside of the thigh. Early on, the pain is often described as sharp and intense. Later on, the pain may become more achey and cover a larger area of the hip.
Often the pain is worse at night, when lying on the affected hip, and when standing up after being seated for a period of time. It may get worse with prolonged walking, climbing up stairs or squatting.
Hip bursitis can affect anybody, but is more commonly found in women and middle-aged or elderly people.
Risk factors:
• Repetitive stress (overuse) injury
• Hip injury
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Spine disease
• Leg-length discrepancy
• Previous surgeries
• Bone spurs or calcium deposits
Treatment:
Many people with hip bursitis can experience relief with simple lifestyle changes, including:
• Avoiding the activities that worsen symptoms
• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
• Physical therapy
Prevention:
Although hip bursitis can’t always be prevented, there are steps you can take to stop the symptoms worsening:
• Avoid repetitive activities that involve the hips
• Lose weight if you need to
• Ensure shoes are properly fitted
• Keep good strength and flexibility of the leg and hip muscles
Bursae are small, fluid-filled sacs that are located throughout the body, including around the shoulder, elbow, hip, knee, and heel. They are filled with a small amount of fluid, and act as cushions to help reduce friction, as they are positioned between bones and soft tissues.
Bursitis is inflammation of the bursa. There are two major bursae in the hip that typically become inflamed and irritated. One bursa covers the bony point of the hip bone, which is called the Greater Trochanter. Inflammation of this bursa is called trochanteric bursitis.
Hip bursitis most often involves the bursa that covers the greater trochanter of the femur, although the iliopsoas bursa can also become inflamed.
Symptoms:
The main symptom of trochanteric bursitis is hip pain. The pain usually moves outwards towards the outside of the thigh. Early on, the pain is often described as sharp and intense. Later on, the pain may become more achey and cover a larger area of the hip.
Often the pain is worse at night, when lying on the affected hip, and when standing up after being seated for a period of time. It may get worse with prolonged walking, climbing up stairs or squatting.
Hip bursitis can affect anybody, but is more commonly found in women and middle-aged or elderly people.
Risk factors:
• Repetitive stress (overuse) injury
• Hip injury
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Spine disease
• Leg-length discrepancy
• Previous surgeries
• Bone spurs or calcium deposits
Treatment:
Many people with hip bursitis can experience relief with simple lifestyle changes, including:
• Avoiding the activities that worsen symptoms
• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
• Physical therapy
Prevention:
Although hip bursitis can’t always be prevented, there are steps you can take to stop the symptoms worsening:
• Avoid repetitive activities that involve the hips
• Lose weight if you need to
• Ensure shoes are properly fitted
• Keep good strength and flexibility of the leg and hip muscles
Osteoarthritis of the hip:
Osteoarthritis in your hip often results in difficulty moving your hip joints.
You might have difficulty when:
• Putting on your shoes and socks
• Getting in and out of a car
Symptoms:
You will usually have pain in the groin or outside the hip. This is often worse when the hip joints are moving, although it can also affect you when you're resting or sleeping
Treatment:
There's no cure for osteoarthritis, but the condition does not necessarily progressively get worse over time. There are a number of options to help relieve the symptoms.
The main treatments for the symptoms of osteoarthritis include:
• Lifestyle changes – such as maintaining a healthy weight and exercising regularly
• Medication – to relieve your pain (paracetamol or NSAIDs)
• Manual therapy - not using your joints can increase stiffness caused by osteoarthritis. Manual therapy is a technique where a sports therapist uses their hands to stretch, mobilise and massage the body tissues to keep your joints supple and flexible.
Osteoarthritis in your hip often results in difficulty moving your hip joints.
You might have difficulty when:
• Putting on your shoes and socks
• Getting in and out of a car
Symptoms:
You will usually have pain in the groin or outside the hip. This is often worse when the hip joints are moving, although it can also affect you when you're resting or sleeping
Treatment:
There's no cure for osteoarthritis, but the condition does not necessarily progressively get worse over time. There are a number of options to help relieve the symptoms.
The main treatments for the symptoms of osteoarthritis include:
• Lifestyle changes – such as maintaining a healthy weight and exercising regularly
• Medication – to relieve your pain (paracetamol or NSAIDs)
• Manual therapy - not using your joints can increase stiffness caused by osteoarthritis. Manual therapy is a technique where a sports therapist uses their hands to stretch, mobilise and massage the body tissues to keep your joints supple and flexible.
