The connection of the thigh is the union of the thigh with the pelvis. The articulation is arranged in such a way as to ensure any direction of foot movement. This feature causes the possibility of various damages. The problem causes pain in the hip joint.
The constituent parts of the joint undergo painful changes.
Characteristics of the causes of pain
INJURY
When there is pain in the hip joint, which radiates to the legs and buttocks, the cause of the pathology can be:
- Congenital dislocation due to unsuccessful birth. The damage is diagnosed immediately in newborns. The baby has noticeable uneven folds in the buttocks, shortening of the legs. There is often a suppressed nerve.
- Traumatic dislocation. Characterized by pain when moving the leg sideways, it is impossible to stand or sit. Hematoma and swelling develop in the wrist area. Dislocation of the thigh requires immediate treatment of the victim.
- Neck fracture. The diagnosis is most common in women over 60 years of age. A provocateur of what hurts in the right thigh in the upper part of women is a banal drop. With a fracture, a sharp pain is felt, which increases with movement. A very uncomfortable discomfort gives inside the thigh. The damaged area swells, a bruise develops over the joints. The injured limb becomes shorter, lameness develops. If the injury tightens a nerve, the hips become numb.
- Joint injury. The pain is moderate but increases with active movement. In a static position, the symptoms disappear. Such an injury is typical of people who are prone to fall. The victim is lame, but this condition passes quickly.
- Perforation fractures. The pain is moderate or severe. Movement worsens the symptoms. Perhaps a crushed nerve, in which the pain begins, the limbs numb.
Traumatic injuries are a common cause of back pain in the pelvis. Severe fractures or dislocations often require surgery. If a nerve is crushed, numbness of the leg has started - rush to the doctor immediately.
Systemic diseases
Joint pain can provoke systemic connective tissue pathology. The therapy of such diseases is required to be carried out continuously, as they are practically incurable. Treatment is complexly organized, it must affect the cause of concern.
Such diseases can cause pain:
- Bechterew's disease. The pain is dull, worse at night. Most often, the pelvic bones ache, radiating to the knee, groin, thighs. Movement is difficult, the person is limited. Inflammation develops inside the joint.
- Reiter syndrome. The disease is characterized by damage to the genitourinary organs, joints and inflammation of the conjunctiva. Pathology refers to autoimmune diseases, develops due to intestinal infection. Pain in the hip joint that radiates to the groin begins to be felt a few weeks after infection. The pain syndrome is acute, the temperature rises. The pelvic area is swollen. Most often, the disease causes symmetrical damage to the joints.
- Rheumatoid arthritis. The problem is characterized by inflammation of the connective tissue. With pathology, the joint is never irritated. The disease is a precursor to coxarthrosis. Initially there is swelling, shooting pain, discomfort at the moment of walking. Inside the joint, the temperature rises, then the stiffness of the movements develops. Visible pain in the hip joint lying sideways at night. The pathology is manifested in both the right and the left. Due to the destruction of the joint, the nerves are suppressed.
Degenerative changes
Causes of pain in the hip joint, and quite sharp, attractive or burning, are degenerative changes due to such diseases:
- Juvenile deformity Varus. There is a dull tingling pain radiating to the knee. Exercise increases the intensity of the syndrome.
- Coxarthrosis. The pathology is diagnosed in people of both sexes. It is treated for a long time and the therapy is quite complicated. The disease is characterized by the development of degenerative and destructive processes in the joints. Signs of the disease: the patient has joint pain due to long walking, running or climbing stairs. In other cases, the concern passes. Then the inner part of the thigh hurts, the pain is given in the groin. Daily exercise greatly increases the sensations, but at rest the anxiety disappears. Due to the long walk, lameness is formed, the node begins to click. Muscle tone deteriorates, tendon work is interrupted. With an advanced stage of the disease, at night quite severe pain is observed, lameness is already pronounced. Immobility develops when muscles atrophy, losing volume. Therapy can stop the destruction of the wrist.
Such diseases provoke constant lameness, as a result - a person is limited in his work activity, is not able to fully train. Even getting out of bed in the morning is difficult.
Inflammatory or infectious causes
In addition to direct joint damage, inflammation of the articular sac, tendons, or muscles can cause discomfort. Infectious diseases also provoke pelvic pain in women and men:
- Tuberculous arthritis. The pathology mainly affects young children with weakened immune systems. The child gets tired quickly, runs a little. The thigh muscles begin to atrophy, the leg shortens, the joint clicks. Gradually, a strong pain syndrome develops in the affected joint. Sometimes the pain is sharp, but more often itching or tingling. Later, suppuration develops in the joints, which increases the symptoms.
- Purulent arthritis. With such a disease, the temperature rises, the skin around the ankle turns red, the swelling is noticeable and a sharp or acute pain is felt. Any load (banal getting out of bed) is painful. The pain passes. Therapy can not be delayed because a person develops sepsis.
- Bursitis is an inflammation that affects the joint sac. The main symptom is pain that spreads below the foot. It is acute, when you stand up the anxiety increases. When the limb is not loaded, the pain is only burning.
- Aseptic necrosis of the femoral head. The pathology mainly develops in young people. Causes diseases of deteriorating blood circulation in the hip joint. Tissue cells die due to necrosis. The disease is characterized by acute pain radiating to the groin, a strong burning sensation of the affected area. It hurts so much that the young man loses the ability to stand on his own two feet, making it difficult for him to get out of bed in the morning. Most often, just one injection of an analgesic helps the patient. After a few days, the pain symptom goes away. As the pathology progresses, changes occur in the tendons and muscles that atrophy. Gait disturbance develops due to lameness.
In infectious pathologies develop various pains: burning sensation, dull or attractive. Anxiety is so increased that it interferes with sleep at night. Any such disease requires immediate treatment.
Treatment
Even when the pain in the thigh joint is interrupted, it should be treated without fail. Methods of therapy depend on the provocateurs of the symptoms.
congenital dislocation
When the dislocation is born, the baby is placed in the joints with orthopedic products: cramps, pillars, the use of a Freik pillow is recommended. Such funds help maintain the newborn's limbs in a physiological position. The baby should be in such conditions for at least six months.
When traditional treatment fails, the baby needs surgery. Operatively, the bone head is placed in its place in the newborn, while correcting other defects. When the orthopedic devices have already been removed, the child is given a light massage to strengthen the muscles.
Traumatic dislocation
When there is a traumatic dislocation, the doctor prescribes medications that eliminate muscle tone and then puts the thigh in place. After that, the patient should be kept calm. If there is numbness of the limbs, it means that the nerve is suppressed. In such a situation, you can not do without an examination by a neurologist.
Bechterew syndrome
Therapy for Bechterew's disease is performed in a complex way. This helps reduce the intensity of the symptoms provoked by the inflammatory process. Treatment consists of taking medications (immunosuppressants, hormonal drugs, anti-inflammatory), physiotherapy and therapeutic exercises (muscle stretching is especially helpful). Recommended massage of the affected wrist.
Preparations along with therapeutic exercises are prescribed only by a traumatologist, surgeon or orthopedist. To strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, you need to swim more. In difficult situations, the patient is prescribed joint replacement.
Thigh fracture
The therapy of such an injury is performed by a traumatologist. Surgery is recommended for the patient, as conservative treatment is rarely effective. However, if surgery is impossible, the patient is given a cast from the heel to the lower back. In older people, such damage rarely grows together - the recovery process takes months.
Among the consequences of the disease, the reduced functionality of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems is distinguished, as the patient is not able to move normally and lead an active lifestyle. Even just sitting is problematic for him.
When the joint is broken, there is a burning sensation inside the soft tissue. During the surgical intervention, the fixation of the body and the head of the bone with pins or screws is used for treatment, in difficult cases an endoprosthesis is performed.
Reiter's disease
Antibiotics, glucocorticosteroids, anti-inflammatory drugs, immunosuppressive drugs, and topical ointments are used to treat Reiter's pathology. The therapy lasts more than four months. Even adequate treatment does not prevent the possibility of a recurrence of the disease.
The entire recovery period is required to maintain muscle tone with physical exercise - traditional stretching.
Rheumatoid arthritis
The cause of hip pain in women and men is often rheumatoid arthritis. Pathology can provoke severe pain, it is impossible to get rid of it completely. However, drug therapy should be used to improve the quality of life. Hormonal agents, cytostatics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, anti-rheumatic agents are used.
Surgical intervention is used only when the disease is advanced, when the patient is practically unable to walk and sit. Recommend adjustment of the joint or its arthroplasty. Exercise, local ointments are helpful.
Coxarthrosis
Coxarthrosis therapy seeks to eliminate the causes of unpleasant symptoms. The pathology is initially treated with conservative methods. The patient is recommended to be shown non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, chondroprotectors, drugs that improve blood circulation.
In treatment, warming ointments and pain relievers are actively used. Furthermore, the patient is recommended to undergo light therapeutic training. The joint often requires anesthesia, therefore, with considerable discomfort, intramuscular injections are used.
With advanced disease, conservative therapy does not have the desired effect. Any joint load worsens the patient's well-being. Without the help of a stranger, the patient can not get out of bed. He needs constant sedatives. In such a situation, only surgery can correct the situation.
Most often, arthroplasty is done, but this procedure is contraindicated for the elderly. Because of this, only ancillary surgeries are organized for such patients. Surgical treatment ends with a course of recovery: minimal stretching, simple exercises performed under medical supervision.
Proper therapy helps stop the progression of the disease, eliminate painful symptoms.
Characteristics of therapy for infectious lesions
If pain in the hip joint is provoked by an infectious lesion, then you should first contact an infectious disease specialist. How to relieve pain in the hip joint with such a pathology? It all depends on the type of disease:
- Tuberculous arthritis is mainly treated conservatively. The patient is asked to restrict mobility by placing a tight bandage. When an abscess develops inside the soft tissue, it is removed through surgery.
- Purulent arthritis. First, anesthesia of the affected wrist is performed. For this, an intra-articular injection of an analgesic is used. Antibiotics and antibacterial drugs are used against the infection, using at the same time different groups of them, which are prescribed only by the doctor. In addition, abscesses are removed. The affected limb should be immobile - the patient is given a splint or a cast.
- Therapy of aseptic necrosis includes restoration of poor blood flow, resorption of dead areas. To anesthetize the limbs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and vitamin complexes, drugs to reduce blood density are used. When thigh pain, an anesthetic ointment and massage procedure are also prescribed. The disease is still treated with physiotherapeutic agents, therapeutic exercises. In complicated situations, minimally invasive surgery or joint arthroplasty is used.
- Since bursitis provokes severe pain, anesthesia should be arranged. For this anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs are used, introducing them intramuscularly. Steroid medications are used to quickly eliminate severe anxiety. Since the joint is constantly aching, it needs rest.
Numbness of the limbs, burning and pain in the joints, which radiates to the limbs, are unpleasant sensations that indicate the presence of a serious pathology. Sometimes popular recipes help in such a situation.
Alternative treatment
When the patient has severe burning pain, problems with the tendons are obvious, but it is contraindicated for him to use medication - the use of folk recipes is allowed. Although not a medicine, however, in complex therapies they can help correct the situation. Before using any folk remedy, you should get medical approval for such a procedure.
Here are some recommendations:
- Clay compress. Such a popular remedy helps eliminate pain and reduce swelling of the wrist. Clay is recommended to alternate, applying first blue and then black. Used overnight, wrap the compress with a woolen cloth.
- Homemade ointment prepared from the white root of the foot and internal fat. Melt the fat, add the root by chopping it first with a meat grinder. Place the mixture on low heat. Once it boils, keep it on the fire for another 7 minutes. Apply the cooled ointment before going to bed on the affected joint. Be sure to insulate the node. Such a popular remedy perfectly eliminates swelling, other unpleasant signs.
- cabbage compresses. Along with them you will need honey. Coat the cabbage leaf with a bee product and then apply to the sore area. Cover the compress from above with a plastic bag, insulate everything with a woolen cloth. Therapeutic course - one month. It is recommended to do a light massage of the wrist at intervals between compresses.
- The medicine with lemon, garlic and celery relieves severe pain. To prepare it, take 2 lemons, 130 g garlic and 300 g celery (root). Grind the ingredients thoroughly with a meat grinder, pour into a container with a tight lid. Pour boiling water over everything, stir. Close the lid and wrap the container with a blanket. After 12 hours, drink 1 tablespoon of juice. before meals for several months.
It should be remembered that the crushed nerve that occurred inside the hip joint, folk remedies are not able to eliminate it. With numbness of the limbs, be sure to visit a neurologist. Also, remember that any joint injury that provokes pain should be identified immediately and treated appropriately.
Light gymnastics, stretching exercises are capable of preventing violations of ankle functionality.