Buttock Pain Differential Diagnoses

Differential Diagnosis

• Lumbosacral spine
  • Referred Lumbar Spine or Sacroiliac Joint pain
• Hip joint causes
  • Hip joint osteoarthritis
  • Other hip joint causes
• Extra-articular hip causes
  • Gluteus medius and/or minimus tendinopathy
  • Hamstring origin tendinopathy, or origin avulsion injury
  • Lateral rotator tendinopathy
  • Ischiogluteal bursitis
  • Ischiofemoral impingement
  • Myofascial pain
• Nerve entrapment
  • Sciatic or pudendal nerve entrapment
• Other
  • Posterior thigh compartment syndrome
  • Sacral stress fracture
• Spondyloarthritis
• Malignancy
• Bone and joint infection