Pearls_07

Question 1

chronic ANTERIOR hip pain

• worsens with activity
• painful INTERNAL rotation

Dx?
Tx?

Answer 1

OA

• lose wt
• NSAIDs/Tylenol

Question 2

runner with LATERAL hip pain
- worse c lying on affected side
- point tenderness to palpation
(approx 2.5cm POSTERIOR and SUPERIOR to Greater Trochanter)

Dx?

Answer 2

Trochanteric Bursitis

• Heat, Stretching
• with +/- corticosteroid inj

Question 3

oval-shaped area of burning, numbness, tingling on DISTAL LATERAL thigh

Dx?
Tx?

Answer 3

Entrapment of LATERAL femoral cutaneous nerve
(meralgia paresthetica)

Tx

• lose wt
• wear loose freakin clothing

Question 4

Hip Problems
- location of OA hip pain?
(and what movement makes it worse?)

• location of trochanteric bursitis? worse with? TTP where?
• location of lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (meralgia paresthetica)?

Answer 4

OA = anterior hip pain
- painful internal rotation

Trochanteric bursitis

• LATERAL hip pain
• worse with lying on affected side
• TTP 2.5cm to greater troch

lat femoral cutan n entrapment
- distal lateral thigh
(oval-shaped area of burning, numbness, tingling)