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Soreness above right hip bone after sleeping on an air mattress and moving some heavy boxes. could this be related to puroformis strain from year ago?

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Dr. Ronald Krauser answered

Possibly: It depends on which side of the hip the pain is on to what the possible causes happen to be.

Answered 8/21/2015

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