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Living with pain affects our daily activities, our work, our rest quality and our interactions with others. Finding relief for pain is fundamental for our life quality and our wellness. Hip pain is among the most common painful conditions that affect people of all ages, but especially the elderly and people who often do high impact exercise such as running and jumping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many causes of hip pain, and in this article we will break down the ten most common causes, as well as how to prevent each one of them. This will be especially useful if you are among the high-risk population; if you successfully prevent hip pain, you will be able to do the things you love to do without the limitations of aching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are currently experiencing hip pain, we suggest that you go see a doctor. The sooner you identify the cause, the better you can treat it and the quicker you will find relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Osteoarthritis<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

All joints are point of connection between two or more bones; understandably, they support forces such as weight and the impact of the movement. Joints that support your body, just as your knees or hips, are the ones that make the most impact, and therefore wear out before others. After many years, the constant pressure and movement can degrade the soft tissue that connects the bones together and provides cushioning so the bones don’t rub each other or hit each other after a sudden movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Osteoarthritis <\/a>is a kind of arthrosis, or inflammation of the joints, that can affect many joints of your body but most of all support joints like your hips. It is caused by the wearing of connective tissue, causing pain, inflammation and bone spur around the affected joint. You can prevent osteoarthritis if you keep an active life and exercise regularly, because you will strengthen your tissue; but try to avoid excessive high impact exercise like running or jumping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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2. Rheumatoid arthritis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rheumatoid arthritis<\/a> is a self immune disease that affects the soft tissue around different joints in your body. It is caused by immune cells that usually attack germs that make you ill. However, in some cases they can change their behavior and attack substances and cells that aren’t really dangerous, even those that belong to your own body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they damage the cells of the connective and soft tissue of your joints, the result is increasing wearing that will eventually lead to inflammation, pain and movement problems. So far, there is no known specific prevention for rheumatoid arthritis, and treatment is only significantly effective if initiated in the early stages of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General measures for health protection can prevent rheumatoid arthritis or at least slow down its progression. For example, quitting smoking, keeping an active lifestyle, and reducing the excessive impact on your hip joint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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3. Bursitis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the different sorts of arthrosis, like rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, bursitis <\/a>isn’t more frequently find among the elderly population. Instead, it usually affects athletes or people who do high impact exercises often. Bursae are small bags of liquid that cushion different tissues, such as muscles and bones, and reduce the friction when they move. However, excessive strain or impact can overstress these bursae and as a result they get inflamed and start hurting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bursitis is the painful condition caused by the overuse of bursae. Preventing bursitis is easy, and most measures you can take are centered around performing your physical exercises properly, especially if you do high impact activities like jumping, running and competitive swimming. Warming up before exercise and cooling down afterward help protect your bursae. Also, run-on proper surfaces and use good shoes to reduce the impact of running on your joints. Get proper rest and slow down on your exercises if you notice joint pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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4. Bone fracture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hip fractures aren’t very common among young people, but as they get old, their bones become weaker and more fragile. Osteoporosis <\/a>is a bone condition that reduces bone density, is most commonly found in women, and increases your chances of having a fracture after a fall or strong hit. Fractures don’t have to be big and dramatic; sometimes your bone barely cracks, with no displacement, so there is no way to know right away that it is broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For that reason, if your hip hurts after a fall, especially if you are of elderly age, you should get an X-ray to confirm or discard the possibility of a fracture. Preventing bone fractures is quite easy; you need to take care of the health of your bones. Make sure you eat enough calcium, as well as vitamins that allow your body to absorb it. Get checked regularly starting a certain age in order to detect osteoporosis and other risk conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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5. Muscle and tendon strain<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bursitis isn’t the only painful hip condition caused by overstressing or overuse. There are many sorts of tissue around a joint that help it work. Among them, you have the muscles that you use to move, the tendons that connect the muscles to your bones, and the ligaments <\/a>that keep the whole system together. All of these can be negatively affected by overuse, often in the form of excessive exercise, improper warmup or sudden physical stress \u2013 such as a big effort your body wasn’t prepared for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most common problems that overuse can cause on your joints is tendinitis, which is the inflammation of tendons. Tendinitis can cause not only pain but also loss of mobility and tenderness. Properly warming up before exercise, taking rests during activity and avoiding excessive effort are among the best ways to prevent tendinitis and other inflammations of the tissue around your joints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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6. Hernia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hernias <\/a>are pathological displacements of tissue inside your body. They are often caused by insufficient support or strong movements that push sections of your internal organs, connective tissues or other parts of your body out of their place. Hernias are usually painful and can affect a wide variety of places in your body core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although your hip joint itself cannot have an hernia, pain from other areas such as your abdomen and your lower back can irradiate to your hip; this is because the whole area’s sensitivity information travels to your brain through the same nerve, so your brain interprets the signal of pain as if all that section was injured at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can prevent hernias by giving your body proper support when lifting or doing any activity that puts your core under mechanical strain. Also, women can use extra support when they are pregnant to reduce the risk of inguinal hernias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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7. Sciatica<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The natural wearing of the tissues of your body caused by age doesn’t just affect your hip. All connective tissues undergo the same process, including the disks that cushion your vertebrae. Between your vertebrae there are nerves that go in and out your spinal cord and connect your body with your brain, transmitting sensations such as temperature, tact and of course pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sciatic nerve<\/a> is the longest nerve of your body, it starts on your lower back and goes all the way to your feet. When the disks between your vertebrae wear out, your bones are crushed together and press over your nerves. When the sciatic nerve is pinched, you feel pain in all areas innervated by it, including your hip and your leg. You can prevent sciatica by doing exercises that strengthen your body core, like your abdomen and your back. Also, good posture is fundamental for protecting your vertebral disks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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8. Avascular necrosis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

All tissues need a constant blood flow to stay alive. Blood supplies nutrients and the oxygen that cells need to function, and take away all residual substances like carbon dioxide<\/a> and metabolic waste. If irrigation decreases, tissues might die, and this causes pain and potential health complications. Avascular necrosis is the condition caused by poor irrigation of bone tissue. It can affect many parts of your body but is mostly found on your hips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prevention will depend on the causes. In some cases, avascular necrosis is a consequence of a displaced or broken hip. However, most frequently, it is the result of poor blood flow. If your blood vessels aren’t healthy, they are more likely to become narrow or obstructed, and thus irrigation will be negatively affected. Substances like alcohol, nicotine and steroids are known to increase your chances of irrigation problems, so if you are taking them you should quit or at least reduce your intake as much as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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9. Endometriosis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Menstrual pain is often taken as part of a woman’s life, and very rarely receives the attention that it needes. Even if some pain can be considered normal during periods, in some cases the pain is excessive because of an underlying disorder. Endometriosis <\/a>is among the most common causes of gynecological chronic pain. Female hormones induce the growth of the endometrium, which is the inner layer of the uterus, every menstrual cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, a disorder can induce the growth of endometrium in parts of your system where it doesn’t belong, causing pain and tenderness. Just as it happens with inguinal or femoral hernias, the pain that is originated in the reproductive system can irradiate and affect other close areas, including your hip. So far, there is no clear way to prevent endometriosis, but it is proven that reducing the levels of estrogen in your body can help keep your endometrial growth under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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10. Bone cancer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This isn’t the most frequent cause of hip pain, but in a number of cases a benign or malign tumor could be behind the pain. Bone tumor in general tends to be painful because it causes the bone to deform and grow spikes or crests that tear tissues around them and provoke inflammation. Cancer is an excessive growth of cells that lose their primary function and can even spread to other parts of your body, in a process called metastasis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a result of a mutation caused by many different factors, some of them even unknown to us so far. Preventing cancer is a matter of a healthy lifestyle more than any particular or specific measure you can take. A healthy diet has been linked to a decreased risk of bone cancer. Also, some cancer treatments are known to increase your risk of developing new cancers in the area, such as radiation treatments, so alternative therapeutic approaches are more recommendable if you have pelvic cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n

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