Struggling With Chronic Hip Pain? Here Are Some Great Treatment Options

It would be one thing if your hip pain only flared with certain activities, such as climbing the stairs or getting out of your car. But your chronic hip pain is also following you into the night as it becomes increasingly challenging to find a comfortable sleeping position.

Unfortunately, you’re not alone in this 24-hour battle. The prevalence of hip pain in the general population is about 10% and nearly 15% of adults in the United States report significant hip pain on most days.

If you count yourself as a chronic sufferer of hip pain, you’ve come to the right place. At Revive Spine and Pain Center, our team specializes in pain management for common issues like hip pain. 

One of our primary goals in treating musculoskeletal disorders like hip pain is to avoid contributing to the discomfort with invasive treatments. Instead, we offer highly effective and minimally invasive treatment options, many of which we review below.

What drives most hip pain

Your hips are very large ball-and-socket joints that are responsible for some important duties, such as supporting your upper body and providing mobility.

Given how hard your hips work to carry you through the day, it isn’t surprising that hip pain is so common, especially as time goes by and the wear-and-tear builds up.

What drives the large numbers of chronic hip pain often comes down to these conditions:

• Hip osteoarthritis, which has increased in the US by almost 25% between 1990 and 2019
• Hip bursitis
• Hip impingement, or femoroacetabular impingement 
• Repetitive strain on the soft tissues
• Hip dysplasia
• Hip dislocations
• Labral tears

While some of these conditions are acute and can be successfully treated by an orthopedist, chronic hip pain is a different beast. It’s often progressive and degenerative. 

What this means for you is that pain and symptom management become more important for avoiding surgical interventions, such as hip replacement.

Effective solutions for chronic hip pain

As we already mentioned, our team’s goal is to help our patients manage chronic hip pain without resorting to surgery. To do this, we offer some time-tested treatments, as well as more innovative ones, such as:

Joint injections

One of our frontline treatments for chronic hip pain is corticosteroid joint injections, which tackle the immediate pain and inflammation inside the joint. Once you find relief, you can pursue more sustainable options to manage hip pain, which we review further on.

Regenerative medicine

With this approach, we go beyond managing symptoms and focus on regenerating healthier tissues inside your hip joints. To do this, we offer biologics, such as platelet-rich plasma injections, which contain growth factors from your own body that promote cell regeneration and healing.

Tenotomy with Tenex®

If your hip pain is due to an issue like bursitis, the Tenex procedure can be a great solution. With Tenex, we deliver high-frequency ultrasound energy into the damaged tissues to stimulate healing and regeneration.

Medical acupuncture

Medical acupuncture is a great approach that targets key acupoints in your body to relieve blockages and encourage a better flow of healing resources.

Physical therapy and lifestyle changes

As important as our treatments are, you can do a lot to manage chronic hip pain through physical therapy and certain lifestyle changes. 

For example, through our sports medicine and rehabilitation services, you can strengthen the muscles that support your hip to relieve the pressure on the structures inside the joint.

Another way to relieve the pressure is through weight loss — carrying extra weight can exacerbate hip pain.

As you can see, there are many options to choose from, and we’re happy to sit down with you to come up with the best treatment plan for your circumstances.

To set that up, we invite you to contact us at one of our conveniently located offices in Marlton, Hamilton Township, Northfield, or East Brunswick, New Jersey, to schedule an appointment.