Chronic hip pain makes it difficult to go about your day. Could your condition be caused by hip bursitis? If you suffer from this condition, it’s wise to seek treatment before your pain worsens and completely prevents you from walking.

What is Bursitis?

The hip is just one joint in your body that contains bursae, small jelly-like sacs containing fluid. These fill the gap between your bones and soft tissues, acting as a lubricant to reduce friction when you move. Bursitis is a condition describing an inflamed bursa.

Two bursae in your hips are most susceptible to irritation and inflammation. The first covers the bony part of the hip joint known as the greater trochanter. When this happens, you condition is known as trochanteric bursitis, the most common type of hip bursitis. The second most affected bursa, called the iliospoas bursa, is located on the groin side of your hip. This is still considered hip bursitis, but the pain radiates from your groin area.

Symptoms of Hip Bursitis

Watch for pain right at the point of your hip, indicating trochanteric bursitis. The pain may extend to your outer thigh area and may be sharp and intense in the early stages. The pain often becomes more of a widespread ache as your condition progresses.

Your discomfort may be worse at night, preventing you from lying on your affected hip. Pain may also flare up when you get up after sitting for a while. Prolonged walking, squatting or climbing stairs may also irritate your hip.

What Causes Bursitis?

Anyone can develop this condition, but it’s most common in middle-aged and elderly women. Risk factors include:

• Overuse: Repetitive motions from running, bicycling or even standing for prolonged periods can cause a repetitive stress hip injury.
• Trauma: Falling on your hip or having another type of accident can injure your hip and cause bursitis.
• Spine disease: Lower back problems such as scoliosis and lumbar arthritis increase your risk for bursitis.
• Differing leg lengths: When one leg is longer than the other, it puts extra stress on your hip joints.
• Rheumatoid arthritis: Joint inflammation is a symptom of RA, which can affect your hip and irritate the bursae there.
• Surgery: Bursitis is a potential complication from hip surgery and prosthetic implants.
• Bone spurs: When these develop within the tendons surrounding your hip joint, they can irritate and inflame the bursae.

Hip Bursitis Treatment Options

At Spine Correction Center, we encourage you to pursue every natural, non-invasive, non-surgical, non-pharmaceutical treatment option available before you resort to surgery. The first treatment methods we recommend pursuing include:

• Modified activities to avoid pain triggers
• Over-the-counter pain medications to keep inflammation down
• Mobility aids, such as canes or crutches, to keep your weight off the affected hip for a week or more
• Physical therapy to correct the reason behind your hip bursitis
• Joint injections to quickly, though temporarily, relieve your symptoms

Hip Bursitis and Stem Cell Therapy

If you have injured your hip or you have chronic hip pain due to a spinal condition or arthritis, you may want to consider Stem Cell Therapy. With recent strides in healthcare and science, Stem Cell Therapy – a procedure involving nothing more than a single in-office injection – is now available.

This simple treatment can alleviate hip pain and the conditions that prompted it in the first place – permanently! Stem Cell Therapy patients are typically encouraged to walk the same day as receiving the injection, and most patients experience very little downtime.

Spine Correction Center is one of the few clinics in the country to offer amniotic stem cells for Stem Cell Therapy. The goal of this treatment is to alleviate pain through natural healing while promoting long-lasting results. You may notice initial improvement within a few weeks and experience steadily decreasing symptoms as your healing advances. Stem Cell Therapy allows you to return to the active lifestyle you enjoyed prior to injury.

The Initial Visit

When you arrive at Spine Correction Center in Fort Collins for your first visit, a member of our team will collect your medical history to help us know how best to help you. As you get started with a treatment plan for your hip bursitis, we’ll most likely give you some at-home tips to implement.

Feel free to read some of our patient testimonials to see what others have said about Spine Correction Center. We’re proud to be part of your healing process and want to thank you for considering us to help with your hip pain!

Free Hip Bursitis Consultation

Whether you’re confident bursitis is the source of your hip pain or not, we’re ready to help you back on the road to a pain-free life. Contact us online or call (970) 658-5115 today to schedule your free consultation.