dd's hip pain has been diagnosed

[piratecat]

Hi there. Saw a physio, and an orthopedic expert today.

dd has Tight iliotibial band syndrome, or snappinghip syndrome.

Means her muscle, tendons and ligaments are all doing stupid conflicting things between her hip bone down to her knee.

Not sure of cause. prognosis is not certain, due to growth, buthopefully will go one day. She needs physio, and painkillers. We are to be overseen by this dr and regular visits to physio. I have the physio's direct number for supprt and advice.

The tendons over her hip are most likeliy catching somewhere, and the best way to treat it is trying to stretch her leg with excercise. if the sever pain continues to come then they will look into cortisone injections for pain relief.

this sort of thing

I am so relieved to have soemthing to work wiht, The DR was fantastic, time short, but knew his stuff, which is al one can hope for.

Oh I'm glad you have some answers, and hope the treatment relieves it. Good luck to her!

I have this! For me it was a result of a huge operation as a child to straighten my legs (femoral inversion). Bones were great but muscles etc never quite caught up.

At it's worst you could hear me walking, the clunking was soo bad. It can lead to a bursitis which is painful, and cortisone sorts out. Otherwise, anti-inflammatories help settle the inflamed parts.

Exercises do help- I have a few that stretch those specific muscles when it gets bad.

Oh, they operated once to shave the bony bit of the bone down that everything was snapping on. One hip has been a lot better since, the other not - so I wouldn't recommend it as everything just grows back. Stick to exercise - it really does help when you find the right ones for you.