Because of severe hip injury or arthritis, you experience hip pain when you are sitting down or trying to sleep and it is hard for you to perform normal tasks. Arthritis is acute or chronic inflammation of a joint. Osteoarthritis, commonly known as “wear and tear” arthritis, is the most common form of arthritis in the United States, which in many cases occurs when the hip simply wears out, although the cartilage deteriorating process may accelerate in persons with a previous hip injury. It is degenerative and most often afflicts patients over the age of 50. Another arthritis that causes hip pain is rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammatory disease that leads to severe and at times rapid deterioration of multiple joints, resulting in acute pain and loss of function. Hip pain is also caused by avascular necrosis (AVN) of the hip, when poor blood circulation starves the bones that form the hip joint and the hip joint collapses. Another cause of hip pain is Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) or hip dysplasia, shared by one in 1,000 people. DDH patients are born with an altered hip anatomy and the joint does not develop the normal wear patterns over the years, which leads to “wear and tear” arthritis at a relatively early age.
Hip surgery replacement is non-surgical alternatives to hip surgery. Before deciding on hip surgery, your physician may try several non-surgical, conservative measures to relieve the pain and inflammation in your hip. These include lifestyle modification such as weight loss, avoiding long periods of standing or walking and the use of a cane to decrease the stress on the painful hip; exercise and physical therapy; anti-inflammatory medications to reduce the inflammation of the tissue in the hip to provide temporary relief from pain; or use of dietary supplements Glucosamine and Chondroitin.
If all these measures have been exhausted and your orthopedist recommends surgical intervention, total hip replacement or hip resurfacing can be very successful in decreasing pain and greatly improving function and an orthopaedic surgery using the direct anterior approach will be performed. Orthopaedic surgery is surgery of the musculoskeletal system, that is the system concerning, involving or made up of both the muscles and the bones.