A 36-year-old member asked:
What can you tell me about a stress fracture in the hip?
1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in
Dr. Jeffrey Sideranswered
Sports Medicine 41 years experience
Several months: A stress fracture in the hip is more
serious than almost any other
stress fractures.
It will take several months to heal
and is unusual in that it is one
of the few stress fractures that may
require surgical fixation to allow the
best result.
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A 35-year-old member asked:
Can you tell me what it's like to have a stress fracture?
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Dr. Abby Caplinanswered
Integrative Medicine 42 years experience
Pain: Usually with feet: increasing severity of pain with walking, can be accompanied by swelling, bruising and tenderness to touch at the site of the break. X-rays won't necessarily show anything until a few weeks later, when healing activity can be visible. Improves slowly with immobilization in a cast, rest, over eight weeks or so.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
What are the symptoms of hip stress fracture?
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Dr. Ahmad M Hadiedanswered
Orthopedic Surgery 51 years experience
Pain in the hip : The patient with a hip fracture will have pain over the outer upper thigh or in the groin. There will be significant discomfort with any attempt to flex or rotate the hip. The patient will have the pain increase with weight bearing.
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A 19-year-old female asked:
What are the symptoms of a stress fracture in your hip/pelvis? And treatment?
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Dr. Laurence Badgleyanswered
General Practice 53 years experience
I guess pain: "hip/pelvis stress fracture" a curious medical diagnosis & one this doctor has never heard for symptoms in these structurally firm bone regions. Fractures (cracks) in these bones by & large occur from significant trauma & not from repetative biomechanical "stress"; unless person has severely advanced demineralization or wasting of bone mass & integrity from advanced age and/or a specific disease.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
How long would it take for a stress fracture of the hip to heal?
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Dr. Ahmad M Hadiedanswered
Orthopedic Surgery 51 years experience
12-16 weeks: It take a while depending the type of the fracture and location.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
When is it necessary to get surgery for a hip stress fracture?
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Dr. Ahmad M Hadiedanswered
Orthopedic Surgery 51 years experience
Rarely: Surgery is needed if there is a concern that the fracture may displace or not heal.
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