Hip pain in individuals under 50 is typically evaluated by considering bone, bone-cartilage, connective tissue, muscle-tendon problems, and referred pain from the back.

“so when a person comes to your office and they're complaining of hip pain what is you know the most I don't know call it the three most likely sources of that pain and obviously we'll we'll go through some of the examination so people can sort of see how you will go about Gathering that information sure but what would be the top three most common diagnoses you'll encounter for a person with hip pain and let's maybe bracket this by saying a person under 50 okay sure um so you know someone comes in with pain right away I'm sort of thinking about the different layers of the hip so in my mind I'm thinking is this is this a bone problem is it a bone cartilage problem is it a uh connective tissue problem that is a ligament problem is it something is the capsule too loose because the the ball is held in the socket by a capsular layer um or is it a is it a muscle and tendon problem so we sort of we from Deep to superficial we have bone cartilage and then we have connective tissue ligaments capsule and then we have muscle tendon and then we also have to recognize that sometimes hip pain is referred pain that is it could be coming from your back so we're thinking about those separate layers and then we're also thinking about location so someone who has pain in the front of the knee sorry the front of the hip is is different than someone side of the hip back of the hip so we need to tease all the those factors out”