When you first meet with your consultant here at Saxon Clinic, they’ll take a medical history and talk about your symptoms. They’ll ask you a number of questions to help narrow potential causes down. These may be questions like:
- How long have you had hip pain?
- Do you have any other symptoms?
- What activities or movements make your symptoms worse?
- Have your symptoms been getting worse?
- Where in the hip is your pain and what does it feel like?
They will perform a physical examination of your hip, as well as your back and knee because pain in the hip can sometimes be referred from a problem in them.
Further diagnostic tests may be needed, and these can all be easily arranged for you here on-site. Our on-site imaging facilities include X-ray, MRI and ultrasound.
Once a diagnosis has been made, your consultant will talk about the results and discuss suitable treatment options with you.
Should hip surgery be deemed appropriate, this will be arranged for you as soon as possible. The hip implants used at Saxon Clinic are state-of-the-art and custom fitted to your specific requirements to ensure your new joint gives you the benefits you expect.
If you have pain in your hip, you may not need hip surgery. Non-surgical treatments are often able to successfully relieve pain dependant on the problem, and can delay the need for hip surgery. These treatments include:
Should these treatments not work, or they stop being as effective, hip surgery may be needed to get you out of pain.
Hip replacement surgery removes the damaged, worn joint with a new artificial one, called a prosthesis. This new hip joint is able to move freely and without causing pain.
Hip replacement surgery may also be needed for other reasons, including rheumatoid arthritis, avascular necrosis (the death of bone tissue due to its blood supply being cut off) or a fracture of the hip.