Hip Joint Injections in Houston, Texas
The hip is a deep joint, and it lies. Its pain shows up in the groin, the buttock, the outer thigh, and — with unhelpful frequency — the knee. Patients spend months in treatment for a lumbar spine problem while the joint responsible has never been examined. An image-guided hip injection settles the question.
What is a Hip Joint Injection?
A hip joint injection places local anesthetic, usually with corticosteroid, directly into the ball-and-socket joint under fluoroscopic or ultrasound guidance.
The hip sits beneath thick muscle and adjacent to the femoral neurovascular bundle. It cannot be reliably entered by landmark alone. Image guidance is mandatory, not a refinement.
Diagnostic Value
Hip pain and lumbar spine pain coexist frequently, and each can convincingly imitate the other. An intra-articular hip injection is the cleanest way to separate them: if local anesthetic in the joint substantially relieves your pain, the joint is the source. If it does not, attention properly returns to the spine.
This distinction changes management entirely, and it is worth establishing before anyone operates on either structure.
What It Treats
- Hip osteoarthritis with groin pain and stiffness
- Labral tears and femoroacetabular impingement
- Inflammatory arthritis involving the hip
- Avascular necrosis in early stages, for symptom control
- Unclear hip-versus-spine pain , as a diagnostic tool
Answering the Right Question at Remix Medical
Months of back treatment for a hip problem is a common and avoidable story. Contact Remix Medical to schedule a consultation with a board-certified pain management physician in Houston.