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Understand Your Hip Pain Treatment Options

Don’t let hip pain run your life. Get back to a life in motion. Our hip pain assessment quiz and free hip replacement eBook and infographics below will help you better understand your options.

If you and your doctor determine you need hip replacement, you can choose where you’d like to have the surgery. Two key factors for you to explore when deciding are the skill of your surgeon and what your hospital experience be like. Learn how UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance and the Evarts Joint Center at Highland Hospital excel at both in our free education materials below.

Better understand your pain and how to describe its impact on your life when speaking with your doctor.

Do You Have: Level of Pain / Trouble
Trouble walking?
Trouble with stairs or hills?
Hip pain that interferes with your everyday routine?
Hip pain that interferes with things you do for fun?
Hip pain that interferes with your sleep?
Hip pain after you get out of bed in the morning?
Hip pain or stiffness that is there throughout the day, even at rest?
Hip pain when getting out of a chair?
Hip pain when you Hipl down and get back up?
The feeling that your Hip might give out?

Your score is 0

 

Your responses may indicate satisfactory joint function.

Although you might not require any formal treatment, you should discuss your Hip pain with your primary care doctor/family physician or make an appointment with one of our non-operative orthopaedic doctors, who are part of our Sports Medicine team.

Please keep in mind that this pain assessment is not an official medical test and is a tool to help you better understand and explain your pain. Any medical decisions should be made in collaboration with your health care provider.

If you are ready to take action, call the UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance team and together we determine your best path forward.

 

Your responses may indicate mild to moderate Hip arthritis.

Your should discuss your Hip pain with your primary care doctor/family physician or consider a consultation with an arthritis specialist. An x-ray might be recommended, and you might benefit from non-surgical treatment, such as exercise, weight loss, and/or anti-inflammatory medication.

Please keep in mind that this pain assessment is not an official medical test and is a tool to help you better understand and explain your pain. Any medical decisions should be made in collaboration with your health care provider.

If you are ready to take action, call the UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance team and together we determine your best path forward.

 

Your responses may indicate moderate to severe Hip arthritis.

Your should discuss your Hip pain with your primary care doctor/family physician and consider a consultation with an arthritis specialist. An x-ray might be recommended, and you might benefit from non-surgical treatment, such as exercise, weight loss, and/or anti-inflammatory medication.

Please keep in mind that this pain assessment is not an official medical test and is a tool to help you better understand and explain your pain. Any medical decisions should be made in collaboration with your health care provider.

If you are ready to take action, call the UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance team and together we can determine your best path forward.

 

Your responses may indicate severe Hip arthritis.

Your should discuss your Hip pain with your primary care doctor/family physician and consider a consultation with an arthritis specialist. An x-ray might be recommended, and if non-surgical treatments, such as physical therapy, exercise, weight loss, and/or anti-inflammatory medication have not worked, surgical options might be considered.

Please keep in mind that this pain assessment is not an official medical test and is a tool to help you better understand and explain your pain. Any medical decisions should be made in collaboration with your health care provider.

If you are ready to take action, call the UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance team and together we can determine your best path forward.

Every body deserves to move freely. Joint replacement can help you return to a life in motion. Better Mobility Begins Here! Learn more about our hip procedures or meet our surgeons.