Bursitis of the hip joint - the main symptoms and methods of treatment

The human body, like any complex system, consists of many details.

All the details are worn out over time.

With age, joints become one of the vulnerable places for diseases. One of the joint diseases is bursitis of the hip joint. Sometimes people are exposed to him and at a young age, but the main risk group is older people.

To understand what this ailment is, you need to know at least a little the structure of the joint. In the place of contact, the bones of their end are surrounded by cartilaginous tissue, and around this joint there is a formation filled with a fluid called the synovial periarticular bag, the inflammation of which is hip bursitis of the hip joint. The word "bursitis" comes from two Latin words: bursa - a bag, itis - an inflammation.

Causes of the disease

Bursitis can be caused by severe joint trauma, overcooling, overweight, strong physical loads, wrong structure of the pelvis, that is, everything that causes excessive stress joints.

Therefore, from a young age you need to monitor your health and even seemingly useful physical exertion, should be moderate and sparing.It is easier to lead a correct lifestyle in order to avoid the bursitis of the hip pouch of the hip joint than to treat it later.

In the risk group, women are more likely to be due to the physiological features of the pelvic structure, which is usually wider than male, and the friction of the muscles about the joints occurs with increased intensity, which ultimately can lead to it inflammation.

Also, bursitis is a professional disease of athletes, most often runners.

Symptoms and Diagnosis

Like most diseases, the main symptom of bursitis of the hip joint will be joint pain. Sometimes they can give into the inguinal region and into the inner surface of the thigh. This kind of disease is called the right bursitis of the hip joint.

Acute and severe pain occurs as a result of a recent injury, some patients even said that they heard a click in the joint area, followed by pain symptoms.

If bursitis is caused by a gradual abnormal and excessive load on the pelvis in consequence of excess weight, a sedentary way of life, constant hypothermia, the pain can be infrequent and not strong, aching, paroxysmal. Often patients complain of drawing pain in the hip part of bursitis, as if the joint is twisted out of place, can not sleep on one side, since this also causes pain.

You can not start the disease and if you have pain symptoms, you need to see a doctor so that he can diagnose and prescribe the correct treatment. Most often this diagnosis is made after examination for mobility of the leg and accompanied with pain. The doctor asks the patient to take his foot to the side to the maximum and report the intensity of pain while doing so. Usually a person can not completely turn his foot away from the hip and feels pain.

The doctor also examines, pressing on the surface of the joint and determines whether there is inflammation, which is accompanied by its increase and painful sensations during palpation in the subject.

Usually a simple examination is enough and more thorough diagnosis is resorted to in exceptional cases when the disease is started.

Then the doctor can prescribe an x-ray or ultrasound to see if there is a hardening of soft tissues, as well as bone spines and excess fluid in the synovial periarticular bag.

Methods of treatment

Treatment can be both simple and rather complicated, lengthy process. Sometimes there will be enough compresses on the hip area, and sometimes even surgery may be required. So, there are several ways to treat the disease in question.

Medication

Drug treatment is indicated in several cases - if it is accompanied by severe pain that does not go away for a long time; when the disease is caused by an infection. So, to understand how to treat bursitis of the hip joint, you first need to check whether it is affected by an infection that could penetrate the body through damaged tissue during injuries.

If the doctor still identifies the infection, then special medications will be prescribed to get rid of it. With such a bursitis, antibiotics must be taken.

Most often, such groups of medicines are prescribed:

• macrolides;
• cephalosporins;
• penicillins.

To reduce inflammation appoint:

• meloxicam;
• nyz;
• diclofenac.

In addition, ointments such as, for example, troxevasin, diclofenac, Dikul's ointment will be superfluous. Also, a direct injection of corticosteroids into the joint is sometimes prescribed.

Surgical intervention

The surgical method of treatment of this disease is rarely resorted and only in extreme cases, when the drug treatment is not enough, if too much fluid has accumulated in the synovial periarticular bag or even purulent process.

But sometimes, surgical intervention is also resorted to not in critical cases of the disease, for example, athletes who need to continue training and return "in the system" as soon as possible.

There is such an intervention under local, less common general anesthesia, and after it requires a long course of rehabilitation and drug treatment.

Other methods

With a mild form of bursitis for its treatment, there may be enough compresses, a state of rest and later an easy therapeutic exercise. In rare cases, a special bandage is imposed on the joint, limiting the movements.

When the pain symptoms decrease, the patient is prescribed a set of special exercises that strengthen the ligaments and muscles surrounding the joint, stretch them. In the future, this will help to avoid an incorrect load on him and new injuries.

In sanatoriums, with a focus on the treatment of organs of motion, patients are treated with electrophoresis, they do a special massage, Lyapko applicators are used. Sanatoriums are located in resort areas, with therapeutic mud or springs. Swimming reduces the burden on the bones, but it trains the muscles, which is very useful for bursitis.

Some claim that they were able to cure bursitis with folk remedies. Most likely, it is a non-serious form of the disease. In this case, patients take herbal tea herbs that have anti-inflammatory properties (for example, chamomile), make rubbing with ointments based on beeswax, use warming compresses.

How dangerous is the wrong treatment, possible complications, prevention methods

This disease is better not to admit, than to think afterwards how to get rid of bursitis, to suffer constant pains and to undergo a long and sometimes difficult treatment.

To avoid bursitis of the hip joint, we recommend:

• correctly choose the load, it is desirable to exclude running, and if you run, then in the right shoes and on a flat surface;
• Keep track of your weight, so that it does not become redundant and does not give too much strain to the skeleton;
• at the slightest suspicion of bursitis, to reduce physical exertion, to avoid hypothermia, and it is best to consult a doctor.

Also unpronounced bursitis is dangerous, the symptoms of which are almost insignificant and the patient does not even know about the presence of this ailment. In extreme cases, this can lead to acute inflammation of the synovial periarticular bag and suppuration, after which an operation and a long period of rehabilitation will be required.

Therefore, doctors' statements about the need for an annual diagnosis of the body is not a desire to get a client, but an objective concern for people's health.