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Right Groin & hip pain
Having intermittent pain in right groin, upper anterior thigh & right hip. Pain usually associated with bending at waist & straightening back up. X-ray & MRI report the joint is good. At times pain is severe & I cannot bear weight on right leg. Have Hx of some mild lumbar disease but have had injection which did not help pain in low back or hip. Also have had Physical Therapy without improvement. I am still working full time and this pain in interfering with my job.
No one has been able to tell what’s causing it or what I can do about it.
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Maybe hip flexor is tight or strained or psoas? Pain pain because I have somewhat loose ligaments my hip injury when I was young, so those kind of things that were difficult to treat with anything besides just strengthening the area sometimes water therapy is good. I find. Good luck
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I would slightly alter your guidance to 40s and 50s and add what I consider the most important criteria (and why I am increasing the age range): extensive experience doing the same procedure I am wanting. I would want at least 100 praocedures and preferably hundreds or thousands.
Someone has to be the trainee. I don't want it to be me. I was in the supermarket recently and bumped into a woman who enthusiastically told me she had recently had a hip replacement by a surgeon who had been trained by the inventor of the method. I asked if she meant Jimmy Chow and she said yes. I then told her that Jimmy Chow was my surgeon. My point is that the guy who was trained I am sure is a good surgeon and Dr. Chow runs a fellowship program but I prefer the trainer, not the trainee.
There are newer approaches to hip replacement: Superpath, STAR, etc. instead of anterior or posterior. I had Superpath by the primary inventor of that method (Jimmy Chow) and I had zero post surgery pain. I attribute more to his skill than luck because seven weeks ago he replaced my right knee and I had zero pain after the surgery as well.
I believe the single most important decision one can make is surgeon selection. I have a bunch of criteria for that but once you have selected the surgeon, I believe in following his instructions and advice.
Hi Steve,
Agree that surgeon selection is the first priority. The second priority is on the patient - do all the rehab for as long as instructed. This isn't as important with hips, but essential for knees and shoulders.
And experience and number of procedures performed is also very important. By the time a surgeon has reached age 40, he or she should have completed thousands of surgeries.
Joe
You're h having the same exact pain, I am and they found that it is cysts on my lower spine L5-S1. As well as impingement. I would ask your doctor for a lower spine M.R I.
Good luck and GOD bless
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Do you know any good hip surgeon at Nayo?
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You wrote J. Chow doesn’t accept Insurance and that has to be cash? So, how much of it?
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Have you seen an orthopedic surgeon?
I had terrible pain like this, and ended up having to get a hip replacement - on both hips actually.
By bones were literally rubbing against each other with nothing left to buffer it.
You may not need this - but I know that an orthopedic surgeon would be helpful for you.
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2 ReactionsTight IT band? That gives me periodic problems as you described. I’ve had hip and lumbar joint replacement infusion. But I can still periodically get a screwed up IT band an MFR therapist will help you diagnose that kind of thing.