Hip arthrosis is the most common form of arthrosis. This is because the hip joint is one of the most stressed joints in the human body, which has to carry and move the entire body weight every day. Many people therefore suffer from hip arthrosis at an early age, from around 30 years of age.
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A hip arthrosis (coxarthrosis) usually begins insidiously. At the beginning, the affected person only feels slight pain in the morning shortly after getting up (so-called “starting pain”). Over time, the discomfort increases and the pain becomes stronger.
The hip joint aches when strained and walking becomes difficult. Typically, the pain also occurs in the groin on the side of the affected hip joint. From there it can radiate into the thigh and knee joint.
Hip arthrosis causes chronic pain that can last for several weeks to months if left untreated. Hip arthrosis can lead to pain in the entire leg of the affected side. If there is initially only pain in the hip and groin area, this pain can spread over the entire leg as the arthrosis progresses.
First they extend to the thigh, then further into the knee and even the shin may be affected by the pain. In the early stages of hip arthrosis, the pain occurs mainly in the groin. The pain occurs when walking for a long time, as well as in the morning when taking the first steps after getting up.
As the disease progresses, the pain can then spread further and further, affecting other regions and joints. The buttocks can also cause pain in hip arthrosis. This often occurs after the pain has spread from the groin region to the lateral hip region.
From there they can radiate into the buttocks and in some cases even to the lumbar spine. In the course of the hip arthrosis disease, radiating pain often occurs, which extends from the hip to the thigh. In addition, the mobility of the thigh is increasingly restricted because the rotation of the femoral head in the acetabulum causes pain.
The bending and especially the spreading of the thigh are then very painful. The pain of hip arthrosis can radiate not only into the thigh and knee, but even into the shin. This is the case in advanced stages of hip arthrosis.
If the joint pain in hip arthrosis increasingly occurs at night, this indicates that the disease is progressing further. Initially, the pain is caused by strain and the hip hurts during the first steps in the morning or after sitting for a long time. In the following stage, the pain increasingly occurs at rest and at night. This is a dull pain that may only affect the hip joint or may radiate to other regions, such as the thigh, buttocks, knee or shin.
