Hip pain at age 28-29 may indicate arthritis due to undiagnosed hip dysplasia, diagnosable with an X-ray showing cartilage thinning.

“I have patients that I've seen who they come in to see me because their hip hurts they're 28 29 years old never had a problem before did not suspect anything wrong and we have get an x-ray of the hip and they have arthritis and it's quite a shocking development because you don't know you don't necessarily know and for folks just listening the plain x-ray is a good enough tool for that diagnosis because you'll see the absence or thinning of cartilage where you should see it as in that diagram there correct”