Symptoms with hip arthrosis
In most cases, arthrosis is very harmless in the early stages and does not cause any problems. Only when a certain degree of cartilage wear is reached do the first symptoms appear. These often initially manifest themselves as morning stiffness.
With hip arthrosis, the first steps after getting up are difficult and can also cause slight pain. After the first steps, however, these symptoms initially disappear. These initial pains also occur frequently after prolonged sitting.
In addition, pain in the hip can occur during heavy strain. For example, after walking for a long time or when bending down and climbing stairs, pain can occur more frequently. As the disease progresses, these joint pains also occur later at rest and at night.
A typical symptom of hip arthrosis is pain in the hip when the leg is turned around its own axis, for example when the foot is turned outwards.In addition, the walking distance, i.e. the distance that can be walked without pain, becomes shorter and shorter over time, and with longer distances the patient begins to limp. In addition, the mobility of the hip joint decreases, which is especially noticeable when putting on socks and shoes. When moving the hip joint a rubbing or grinding can often be heard or felt.
This is caused by the roughened surface of the wearing cartilage. Initially, the pain occurs mainly in the area of the hip joint itself. This pain is often described as groin pain.
As the disease progresses, however, they can radiate from the front of the thigh to the knee joint and shin. It is also possible for the pain to radiate from the lateral hip region to the buttocks. In some cases, the pain extends from the hip to the lumbar spine.
In the early stages, these pains also only occur under stress and only as the disease progresses do resting and night pains occur. Due to the pain in the hip joint and also in the other joints, the patient adopts a relieving posture in the long run or changes his gait so that the muscles and tendons of the leg are loaded in a different way than is the case with healthy people. This can lead to tension and a stooped posture, which can cause back pain. In the phase of activated hip arthrosis, i.e. when there is an acute episode, swelling, redness and overheating of the joint can occur in addition to the symptoms.
