Hip Pain
If you are looking for the cause of your hip pain or you do not know exactly what is causing your hip pain, let us guide you through our hip pain diagnostics and arrive at the most likely diagnosis.
Introduction
The general objectives of the various treatment options for hip arthrosis are The reduction of pain and the associated improvement of the “quality of life”. This primarily includes the maintenance or improvement of mobility (release of tension, normalization of muscle functions), walking performance and delaying the progression of coxarthrosis (hip arthrosis). In most cases, it is important to eliminate the so-called “disturbing factors”.
These include, for example, axis malposition (leg length difference), one-sided overloading, overweight or metabolic disorders. This may not always be easy. During the consultation for hip arthrosis, patients are informed about the disease, its natural course and the possibility of influencing it with possible forms of therapy.
Due to the many individual invoices, such consultation is always of an individual nature. In particular, individual living habits are taken into account. Within the scope of conservative therapy of hip joint arthrosis
- No lifting of heavy objects and no sporting overexertion, etc.
This form of therapy for hip arthrosis does not treat the cause.
The drug treatment rather serves to reduce the pain and inhibit inflammation. There are various possibilities for this. One can treat systemically and locally with various groups of substances.
This will be explained in more detail below.
- Anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as diclofenac, ibuprofen and also the new so-called Cox-2 inhibitors such as Celebrex belong to this group of drugs.
- Steroid steroids are usually injected only locally and thus close to the hip joint. One of the steroids is cortisone.
- Anti-inflammatory means: In addition antirheumatic, kortisonfreie medicines, in addition, Kortison belong.
Side effects occur here relatively frequently. For this reason a therapy should take place always only on medical instruction!
- Cartilage protection preparationsCartilage protection preparations (e.g. hyaluronic acid or chondroitin sulfate) are considered promising in the early stages of osteoarthritis. Treatment therefore appears to be particularly useful in the early to intermediate stages of osteoarthritis.
In order to achieve a good effect, however, these substances must be injected (see below).
- Naturopathy in particular, the devil’s claw is to be called here. The Devil’s Claw can be used alone for mild pain and for stronger pain to support the existing therapy. The Devil’s Claw is intended to reduce the symptoms of hip arthrosis. The therapy of coxarthrosis can be supported by homeopathic medication. Various homeopathic medicines can help to alleviate symptoms in the treatment of osteoarthritis.
