Key result
A systematic approach to investigating hip pain in adults helps identify important pathologies, and conservative treatment with selective injection therapies is successful for most causes.
Why the study?
Determining the cause of a painful hip can be a major challenge, and failure to diagnose and appropriately investigate pathologies in adults may result in delayed management and prolonged morbidity.
A systematic approach to evaluating hip pain in young adults is crucial for accurate diagnosis and effective conservative management.
Supports systematic adult hip pain evaluation; leaves open prospective validation of injection therapies.
A wide number of disorders, including pathologies outside the hip, can cause and refer pain to hip. However, determining the cause of a painful hip can be a major challenge to orthopedic surgeons. Failure to diagnose and appropriately investigate pathologies of the hip in adults may result in delayed management and prolonged patient morbidity. A systematic approach to investigating the etiology of hip pain in adults (e.g., history, careful clinical and radiographic examination), will help identify the majority of clinically important pathologies which can cause hip pain. Conservative treatment and selective use of injection therapies has proven quite successful for the treatment of most causes of hip pain.
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Luthra et al. (2019) conducted a review in Painful hip. Conservative treatment and selective use of injection therapies was evaluated. A systematic approach to investigating hip pain in adults helps identify important pathologies, and conservative treatment with selective injection therapies is successful for most causes.
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