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Pain

It is the basic symptom that brings patients to medical appointments. The pain is mechanical, and increases when it begins to move or walk. If you keep moving the joint pain to give in after a time to rise again. With rest, it yields.

The patient feels pain in the crease of the groin, the buttocks, and sometimes only on the inside face of the knee.

When you notice creaking evolves to move the joint.

Progressive limitation of joint mobility

It is another fundamental alteration of osteoarthritis. The movements are more limited outward rotation and then the separation and the extension of the limb. Over time appears contracture or stiffness: the thigh is flexed and rotated inward, and we can not separate it from the body. So that the gestures of everyday life such as tying a shoe, into the tub or get on a bus, they become very difficult or impossible.

There may be phases of increased pain, called crises or outbreaks. The pain is when inflammation increases at night and rest does not eliminate it.

What evidence can you ask for?

Radiographs of the area:

The joint space is the region of union between the two bones of the joint, which appears in the image plate apparently empty, but is actually occupied by cartilage, which is invisible to X-rays In osteoarthritis, the cartilage destruction that space makes narrow: it is the “joint impingement.”

The bone in the area appears very white (highlighting more compact X-rays).

Be seen protruding beak-shaped edges (osteophytes).

For the diagnosis of osteoarthritis do not need more tests, but for the study of the possible causes and according to the suspicions of the doctor may be necessary:

Imaging techniques

- TAC (scanner or computerized axial tomography)

- NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance), useful to assess such a possible femoral head avascular necrosis.

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