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 Zak.Han

Chinese Acupuncture practitioner,Chinese

exarmy doctor,worked

in army hospital 20 years.He specialises in

  back pain relief

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 Pain | What are the Causes of Hip Pain, are You at Risk?

Author: Ray Attebery

Hip pain is a common problem, and it can be confusing for you because there are many causes. It is important to make an accurate diagnosis of the cause of your symptoms so that appropriate treatment can be directed at the underlying problem.

HP is very common and can result from numerous different causes. Pain tends to occur commonly in certain age groups - the young (from 0 to 15 years) and older population (45 years of age).

In 1990, researchers estimated that the number of hip fractures would exceed 500,000 by the year 2040 (Cummings et al)Women sustain about 80% of all hip fractures (Stevens et al. 2000).

Hip pain treatment must be directed at the specific cause of your problem. Some signs that you should be seen by a doctor include:

* Your inability to walk comfortably on the affected side of your body
* Injury that causes deformity around your hip joint
* HP that occurs at night or while your resting
* HP that persists beyond a few days
* Your inability to bend at your hip
* Swelling of your hip or in the thigh area
* Signs of a hip infection, including fever, redness, warmth
* Any other unusual symptoms in your hip

Hip pain can have many causes and can happen at all ages, though for very different reasons.

One of the most common causes of pain if you are elderly is arthritis. Most often this is in the form of osteoarthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis, traumatic arthritis, and many other forms of lesser-known types of arthritis can also cause HP.

The second most common cause of hip pain among the elderly is due to fractures from falls. In fact, osteoarthritis actually causes many of the falls that result in hip fractures. Often the pain is due to fractures must be treated with hip replacement surgery to relieve severe chronic hip pain.

Hip pain may also be caused by bursitis, synovitis, or tendonitis. These conditions are most often seen in those involved in athletic activities.

Muscle strains and sprains within the muscles adjoined to the hip can also cause pain and may involve microtears. These causes of HP effectively treated with physical therapy. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications are also used as over the counter pain relievers such as ibuprofen or can involve prescribed medications that are either taken orally or injected into the hip area to relieve your pain.

Long-term use of cortisone injections for treatment can cause hip pain. This is due to avascular necrosis. This occurs when there is a loss of blood supply to the bone. The bone then begins to deteriorate. This condition can also be caused by a transplant or from Perthes disease. This disease is a cause of hip pain in children that primarily affects boys between the ages of 5-10. In most cases avascular necrosis, however caused, results in hip replacement surgery.

Another reason for hip pain in children is from congenital dislocation of the hip. This can usually be corrected without the need for surgery. Another cause, in children or adults, is viral illness. HP may also be caused by various malignancies, though this is rarer.

Hip pain may also be caused by Pagets disease, which occurs in adults.

Due to the varying causes of hip pain, it is important to take your personal history into account and consult with your doctor, as well as, the use of surgery, physical therapy, and medications, walking aids may also be appropriate and necessary depending on the cause of your pain.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/non-fiction-articles/pain-what-are-the-causes-of-hip-pain-are-you-at-risk-159891.html

 Acupuncture - Knee Surgery

By: Alien

Acupuncture is often the sole treatment for many health problems. In some cases, such as acupuncture and knee surgery, it can be a supplemental help to the primary treatment.

Acupuncture - Knee Surgery

In order to prevent the spread of more confusion and conflict on the subject of acupuncture and alternative medicine in general, it should be noted that the title of this article is a bit misleading. Acupuncture is not actually used to perform surgery on the knee. Invasive surgical procedures are the trademark of Western Style Medicine. Acupuncture has several uses in the pre-operative and post-operative periods of a major invasive knee surgery.

Pain control is one recognized area where acupuncture shows excellent results. Much of the literature of acupuncture deals with pain. Pain is considered to be caused by a blockage in the normal flow of vital energy through a series of channels known as Meridians that crisscross the body. If the blockages are removed, the pain should cease. Since knee surgery often results in much pain and discomfort in the period immediately after the surgery and in the pre-ambulatory period, acupuncture treatments after knee surgery should be valuable.

There have also been tests done on the relationship of acupuncture treatments given before knee surgery and the pain levels in the post-op period. The results were surprising to the surgeons conducting the tests. A control group was given acupuncture treatments that targeted points that would have no possible relationship to pain relief or the knee. Some of the points were not even actual acupuncture points. The test group received needling in three points directly related to the knee and pain relief.

In the pre-ambulatory recovery period, there was a marked decrease in the amount of pain relief sought by the test group when compared to the control group. The test group also tended to spend less time in recovery and became ambulatory at a significantly faster rate. Acupuncture-knee surgery might be more of a match than it first appears. Another clinical study showed that acupuncture treatments geared toward creating calming and anxiety relief in the pre-operative period tended to produce less painful post-op periods and quicker healing. Also, the original purpose was achieved as the patients were calmer and more optimistic prior to surgery.

Acupuncture-knee surgery may not seem like a likely mix, but acupuncture is capable of restoring balance to the entire body and of promoting healing of trauma. This principle is going to hold true regardless of if the trauma is caused by an accident injury to the knee, or if it is caused by the invasive knife of a Surgeon.

Article Source: http://articles.directorygold.com

Alien writes for home remedies. He also writes for nature cures and women health blog

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