106 - Arthritis Pain of the Hip

Abstract

Arthritis of the hip is commonly encountered in clinical practice. The hip joint is susceptible to the development of arthritis from various conditions that have the ability to damage the joint cartilage. Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis that results in hip joint pain; rheumatoid arthritis and posttraumatic arthritis are also common causes of hip pain. Less frequent causes of arthritis-induced hip pain include the collagen vascular diseases, infection, villonodular synovitis, and Lyme disease. Acute infectious arthritis is usually accompanied by significant systemic symptoms, including fever and malaise, and should be easily recognized; it is treated with culture and antibiotics rather than injection therapy. Collagen vascular disease generally manifests as polyarthropathy rather than as monoarthropathy limited to the hip joint, although hip pain secondary to collagen vascular disease responds exceedingly well to the treatment modalities described here.