The symptoms of a worn hip joint are pain, stiffness, limited range of motion, swelling, clicking and popping sounds, weakness, difficulty walking, night pain and having difficulty with your everyday normal activities.
When your hip joint is worn out, tasks such as driving, using the bathroom, getting dressed etc, can become difficult.
Pain with a worn hip joint may also become more severe at night, especially when you lay down on the affected side.
The pain or stiffness with a worn hip joint may also make it challenging to walk or stand and the muscles in the surrounding hip can become weak and swelling may also be present around the hip joint.
With a worn hip joint, the joint when it moves can produce grinding sounds or a snapping or clicking sound and with a worn hip joint you may also have reduced ability to rotate or to move the hip joint.
A worn hip joint can also cause difficulty with movements like bending, squatting or getting out of bed or out of a chair.
And the pain with a worn hip joint is often located in your hip, groin, or upper thigh and the pain with a worn hip joint can get worse with activity, sitting for too long of periods or even standing on one leg.
A worn hip joint is also called osteoarthritis.
If you think you may have a worn hip joint you should see a doctor.
In some cases you may need to consider a hip replacement when the hip pain and stiffness limit your daily activities and reduce your quality of life significantly, if other treatments doesn't help.
If the pain with the worn hip joint prevents you from walking, sleeping, climbing stairs or doing other essential tasks it may be time to talk with your doctor about hip replacement.