Changing your lifestyle can help with hip arthritis symptoms
July 31st, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
Hip arthritis symptoms are often developed by persons over 50 years of age. At least with this form of arthritis this is the case, with other forms you can develop the symptoms at any age.
Most of the time the cause of hip arthritis symptoms is osteoarthritis, the main symptoms are stiffness and pain in the hip area. Although there is no cure for this kin of arthritis, many people can be helped with some simple lifestyle changes to reduce and successful manage the pain of hip arthritis symptoms.
The hips carry a lot of weight and take a lot of punishment, especially during many daily activities. Some of the hip arthritis symptoms include pain the hips, stiffness, limited range of motion as well as possible causing the person to limp when they walk. If the sufferer is overweight, dropping some of the excess may help relieve some of the pain in the hips as will limiting excessively physical activities.
Many times the hip arthritis symptoms will appear worse following strenuous activities but can also develop with no activity at all. For example, a person may suffer hip arthritis symptoms after sitting in one position for an extended time and when they first rise, pain and stiffness in the hips will be present. Additional activity may also be painful, but in the early stages, symptoms of arthritis in the hips may disappear after a few minutes of movement.
Morning stiffness is the most common symptom
With pain and stiffness the most common hip arthritis symptoms when a person first wakes up in the morning, they may be stiff from lying in one position throughout the night and the pain may be worse when they first try to move. After a short term, usually less than an hour, many of the hip arthritis symptoms will seem to disappear. Many times hips problems may also be present with knee arthritis symptoms, making early morning movement nearly impossible.
There are many drugs on the market that claim to ease the pain of hip arthritis symptoms, many include Glucosamine, chrondroitin or corticosteroids. Additionally, in patients suffering from severe pain, doctors might prescribe narcotics to relieve the pain.
Hip arthritis symptoms caused by osteoarthritis should be paid attention to, the drugs as described above can slow down this degenerative disease. If you do not get the proper treatment you might come to a point that hip arthritis symptoms will force you to consider a replacement of the entire hip joint.
