When Should I See A Joint Specialist For Hip Pain?

For those patients that are out there with, you know, pain in their hip, I do recommend that if you are not able to do the things in life that you want to do and that hip pain limits you, that is a trigger to go see a health care professional. If you cannot sleep at night, if you cannot roll over on the hip, those are reasons to come see someone. I do think that a lot of folks live with things, live with pain every day and they're not necessarily seeking that because they may not know and I want to tell them that most of the time this doesn't involve surgery. Most of the time these are physical therapy, these are injections, these are you know, other types of surgical procedures that are less invasive than a hip replacement. There's a lot of options out there but you do not need to live a life in constant pain and you certainly don't need to live a life that you're not happy with.