Hip Pain Differential Diagnosis

• Anterior pain
  • Hip Osteoarthritis
  • Femoroacetabular Impingement
  • Iliopsoas Tendionopathy
  • Inflammatory arthritis
  • Avascular necrosis/osteonecrosis of the femoral head
  • Hip Labral Tear
  • Nerve Entrapments: Genitofemoral Nerve Entrapment, Ilioinguinal Nerve Entrapment
  • Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
  • Transient Osteoporosis of the Hip
  • Inguinal or femoral hernia
  • Gynaecological causes
  • Gonadal tumours
  • Inguinal lymphadenopathy
• Posterior pain
  • Hip Osteoarthritis
  • Sacroiliac joint dysfunction
  • Lumbar Somatic Referred Pain
  • Lumbar Radicular Pain
  • Hamstring Tendinopathy
  • Piriformis Syndrome
• Lateral pain
  • Gluteal Tendinopathy
  • Somatic Referred Pain from the Lumbar Spine or Sacroiliac Joints
  • Calcific Tendinopathy of the abductor tendons
  • Hip Osteoarthritis
  • Meralgia paraesthetica
  • Snapping Hip Syndrome
  • Proximal Iliotibial Band Syndrome
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• Medial pain
  • Hip Osteoarthritis
  • Adductor Related Groin Pain
  • Nerve entrapments: Genitofemoral Nerve Entrapment, Ilioinguinal Nerve Entrapment, Pudendal Nerve Entrapment, Obturator Nerve Entrapment
• Other
  • Septic Arthritis
  • Hip Fracture
  • Hip chondral defects
  • Ligamentum teres injury
  • Pelvic bone tumours
  • Pelvic insufficiency fractures
  • Stress fracture
  • Peripheral Vascular Disease
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm