Aging takes its toll not only on appearance of a person, but also changes the way how a person feels inside. And what it means becomes particularly apparent when it comes to joints. It pains to stand up and to seat down, it pains to dance; the word “pain” becomes part of every single movement of a body. Why does it happen and how to prevent this from happening, and when it does happen, what treatment to apply? Questions like those can be professionally answered by an orthopedist-traumatologist at the Rudenko Clinic in Zaporizhia.
What is a hip joint?
It is the largest junction in a human body. A design of a hip joint allows it to hold a payload of the entire body and is made of a hip socket, a femoral neck, a joint capsule, a lip, and ligaments. Thick vascular network and large nerves innervation ensures stability and reliability of a hip joint function. However, deterioration of a joint’s trophism or chronic traumas to a joint will immediately cause a reaction in a form of different pathologies.
What kind of hip joint diseases can occur?
- Hip bursitis
- Synovitis
- Tendinitis
- Arthritis
- Coxarthrosis
Conditions such as bursitis, synovitis, tendinitis, and arthritis are all caused by inflammatory processes. They are likely to develop after a trauma or as a result of a bone being affected by specific or non-specific inflammatory agents: Koch’s bacillus, pale treponema, and staphylo- and streptococci. Inflammation of a hip joint can develop as a result of continuous, excessive pressure or payloads applied to a joint, micro-traumas of connective tissues, or local structure trophism damage. Traumas and damages will cause overproduction of joint fluids, which will result in a person experiencing a number of symptoms.
Symptoms of a hip joint inflammation include:
- Pain
- Local swelling of para-articular soft tissues
- Redness around a joint
- Presence of fistulous tracts with extracting pus
- Limited mobility in all levels of movement; but the limb’s ability to hold a payload applied to its axis is intact
- Limp in one leg
Hip joint arthrosis, or coxarthrosis
Chronic degenerative-dystrophic disease. It is found in every third person over 60 years old. A disease pathology manifests as trophism damage, degeneration of a joint cartilage, and decreased production of joint fluid. This can be followed by a local inflammation in places of tissue damage resulted from trophism destruction.
The first sign signaling about a hip joint problem will be PAIN.
In order to help you, a doctor will need to check a few more symptoms:
- intermittent limp
- pain amplification during physical activity
- constrained movements in a joint in one or several levels of mobility
- and an X-ray examination.
Presence of one or several symptoms confirmed by a conclusive X-ray is usually enough to diagnose a coxarthrosis. Some very rare cases will additionally require an ultrasound examination, a computer tomography or a magnetic resonance examination.
Treatment of a hip joint coxarthrosis
A particular treatment is designed by a traumatologist after all necessary examinations. A therapy can be conservative–if based on medications, or operative–if a hip replacement procedure is required.
A surgical treatment means replacement of joint structures, and is called an endoprosthesis. Sometimes a surgical treatment is the only way to return unconstrained mobility to a person. At the Rudenko Clinic, a staff of professional traumatologists every day help people to return to free movements and to forget about problems with joints forever.
Take a good care of you and your body, and we will help restore your joints. We encourage you to call this number so that we could answer any questions: +38(067)8678727.