Left leg's been bugging me for a few days. A dull pain up in my hip joint. Grumbled about it long enough, so went in to see the doc today. She did a couple pokes and prods, a couple resistance tests and told me what I had is Trochanteric Bursitis.
Apparently it's from overuse. 'Told me to take it easy for a couple days, cut back on the walking and I should be okay. I probably walk about 5 miles every day. It's going to take a little strategic planning to cut that down at work on a daily basis. 'Really sucks to get old! She gave me some PT exercises to do and sent me home. Oh yeah-they busted me for not getting in for all that lovely 50 year checkup stuff, so I've got to get that set up. Yeehaw!
This gettin' old stuff really sucks! Jeez, I even qualify for a Senior's coffee at McDonalds, and AARP is sending me stuff! I ain't ready to be put out to pasture yet!
Of course your doctor should be right.
The stretching exercises I was taught by the PT my doctor sent me to include lifting my leg to the side. For instance if you were lying on your side you would lift that leg as far as comfortable about 5 times. I do this every night.
The pain got so bad years ago that I could hardly move well. I went to my regular doctor and he sent me to an "arthritis" specialist in the city near here. After over a year the pain was so bad and all he offered were pain pills. Then the "arthritis specialist" wrote me a prescription for a hip replacement and made an appointment for me with a surgeon.
I said "no way" to myself and went back to an old doctor I had not seen for years. He is a D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine). He examined me and said "you don't need a hip replacement, you have bursitis!"
He sent me to the PT next door and the stretching exercises eliminated the pain right away. I stopped the stretching and the pain came back. This was really a big deal for me and now I can move!
To add that if you need more information then PM me and I will give you the name of the PT I go to and more details.
I searched on the net and could not find the exercises that the PT gave me.
