Diagnosing Hip Pain

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[Text on screen: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
W. Kelton Vasileff, MD
Sports Medicine Physician]

W. Kelton Vasileff, MD: One of the problems with diagnosing hip pain itself is that it can frequently masquerade as things like groin pulls, hernias, hip flexor strains, and sometimes even intraabdominal, and genitourinary problems. Because of the variety of things that are located in this area, anatomically it can be very difficult to diagnose. And this is one of the reasons why a lot of patients see multiple providers before they're accurately diagnosed with having intraarticular hip problems.

In patients that come to see us with hip pain, we typically try to diagnose this with a multi-modality approach, which involves X-rays and typically MRI as well. We can treat a lot of patients with physical therapy, anti-inflammatory oral medications, as well as sometimes injections. 

Our non-surgical Sports Medicine colleagues do these injections regularly for us and commonly use ultrasound guidance to make sure that those injections go right into the hip joint. A lot of patients can get better with these kind of treatments, but if they don't, we can discuss surgical intervention.

[Text on screen: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center]

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