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Symptoms of disease - pain in thigh

How is manifest pain and when?
Pain in the hip may occur after heavy physical loads, so quite apart from such. Sometimes they manifest themselves only in the morning upon rising, sometimes as a constant pain in his thigh. They are often accompanied by a feeling of instability and limited in their movements.
Distinguish pain as chronic, lasting for more than three months and sharp (arising from time to time).

Where there is pain?
The pain occurs in the groin, in the 'fold' between the upper part of the thigh and the lower part of the abdomen. In many cases, the pain gives in one or in both legs. And on the contrary, the pain of the lumbar spine can be felt in the area of the hip joint.
Many patients are confused pain in his hip in the area of the groin with other complaints, such as pain in the pelvis or in the upper part of the hips bone. Sometimes the cause of the pain is the muscles in the area of the hips, not the thigh. Well as irritation of the mucous bags hips may lead to a pressing pain.
In rare cases, the cause of hip pain are tumor or some infectious diseases.

Which diseases there is pain in thigh

Causes of pain in thigh

1. The most common cause of pain in the thigh is the depreciation of the hip joint. With age comes deterioration of articular cartilage. Many people have this natural shock absorber in the form of cartilage is so worn that hits the bone of the bone and cause severe pain.
The process of deterioration of cartilage received the name of arthrosis of the hip joint (the so-called Coxarthrose). Most of the people suffer from this disease in old age after age 50, but in rare cases it may suffer and young people. In osteoarthritis of hip joints is typical pain in his hip, however, can disturb and unpleasant sensations knee, groin, buttocks. Sometimes the intensity of the pain varies with the weather - temperature, humidity, air pressure.

2. Along with the natural causes of osteoarthritis and there are other causes such as accidents or injuries, congenital defects of the feet or the consequences of metabolic diseases.

3. Also the so-called systemic arthritis, in which suffer from a few joints, can lead to pain thigh.

4. The reason may also be rheumatic processes or chronic arthritis.
Arthritis of the hip joint is observed for the following diseases:
- rheumatoid arthritis,
- juvenile rheumatoid arthritis,
- rheumatism (migratory polyarthritis),
- spondyloarthropathy

5. Pain in the hip may be the result of emotional stress or desire to extract material benefits from the disease.
Such patients usually included in the doctor's office, a heavy limp, and drawing a thick stick.
The survey indicates the restriction of active bending her hips up to 90 degrees when saved rotation (with arthritis of the hip joint first of all is violated internal rotation).
Be sure to explore the passive movement of the joint - they, too, usually stored in full.

6. Common causes of pain in the thigh and buttock - osteochondrosis and osteoarthrosis of lumbar and sacral parts of the spine and somewhat less frequent diseases of the sacro-iliac joint.
The pain in these diseases are almost always changes on the outer surface of the buttocks and the back of the thigh.

7. The pain in her thigh and buttock may also be triggered by damage to the muscles and ligaments in the area of the hip joint.

The most dangerous causes of pain in her thigh

The pain in her thigh and buttocks can be observed in cardiovascular diseases, neoplasms and heavy infections:

1. Stenosis and occlusion of the aorta and iliac arteries
There are pain and lameness: they are often interpreted as a sign of defeat of the hip joint. The hallmark symptom of stenosis arteries - to - noise ratio over the arteries, especially after exercise.

2. Malignant neoplasms
- Primary tumors of the femoral bones and the bones of the pelvis are rare; this is usually lymphosarcoma and fraught with mielomna disease.
- Much more often there are metastases in the bones (in prostate cancer and breast cancer).
Among other pelvic bone most often affects iliac bone.

3. Infection
- Osteomyelitis usually affects the proximal metaphysis of the femur.
Osteomyelitis in the first place exclude children under intense pain, severe claudication and fever.
- Tuberculosis also more common in children (usually up to 10 years)than in adults. Its manifestations may resemble osteochondropathy head of the femur.
- The most common cause of lameness and pain in the thigh in children - transient arthritis of the hip joint, which may have a viral nature.
- Pain in his hip and lameness are observed in the pelvic abscess (for example, in complicated appendicitis), inflammatory diseases of female genital organs, especially piosalpkins, as well as abscesses ischiorectal fossa. The pain in these diseases, apparently, is caused by the irritation of obturator nerve.
- For retroperitoneal hematomas are characteristic reflected pain in his hip and symptoms of the defeat of femoral nerve.

The most dangerous causes of pain in the thigh in children:

- Hip dysplasia, its most severe form - congenital dislocation of a hip,
- Osteochondropathy head of the femur,
- Epiphysiolysis head of the femur,
- Fatigue fractures of the femur neck.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in thigh

• Neurologist
• Rheumatologist
• Traumatologist
• Neuropathologist
• Oncologist
• Surgeon

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