This guide helps you prepare for hip care

Your sore spot gives the visit a useful start

Write down whether the ache sits in your groin. Note pain on the outside too. Add any ache running from your back. Your doctor will use these notes during the exam.

Also record when soreness begins. Include sitting, walking, stairs, and sleep. Don't forget any fall, numbness, or weakness. Those details may change how soon you need care.

Bring the shoes you wear most often. Don't switch shoes just for the exam. Tell the clinician if those shoes change your walking. Write how long morning stiffness lasts.

Wear or a broken bone may appear on an X-ray. It can't always explain how your hip feels. Your history and the hands-on exam still count. Bring any old X-ray so it isn't repeated without need.

The ownership notice tells you the clinic link

The notice below explains who benefits when you book. Keep that in mind while reading treatment claims. The guide doesn't replace your doctor or diagnose your hip.

Medical study terms aren't homework for you. Ask what result you may feel in daily life. Will you walk farther, sleep better, or use stairs more easily? Also ask what happens when the care doesn't help.

At home, keep doing what safely eases the ache. Shorten chores that cause a flare. Use your cane when it makes walking steadier. During a consultation, QC Kinetix discusses regenerative treatments, clinic care made with your blood or bone marrow after staff examine you.

Sources

1. The RESTORE trial - a participant-, injector- and assessor-blinded RCT of 288 adults aged 50+ with symptomatic medial knee OA (Kellgren-Lawrence 2-3) - compared three weekly intra-articular PRP injections against saline placebo, with co-primary endpoints of 12-month knee pain and medial tibial cartilage volume on MRI. PRP did not beat placebo on either. It is the single best-designed test of the specific claim that PRP changes joint structure, and it was negative.

   Bennell KL, et al. — Effect of Intra-articular Platelet-Rich Plasma vs Placebo Injection on Pain and Medial Tibial Cartilage Volume in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: The RESTORE Randomized Clinical Trial.. JAMA, 2021. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.19415.

2. A Bayesian network meta-analysis of 11 randomized trials (1353 patients) in hip osteoarthritis found that at 2-4 months and 6 months NO injectable - corticosteroid, hyaluronic acid or platelet-rich plasma - significantly outperformed a saline placebo injection for pain or function. Pooled change from baseline exceeded the minimal clinically important difference in every arm including placebo.

   Gazendam A, et al. — Intra-articular saline injection is as effective as corticosteroids, platelet-rich plasma and hyaluronic acid for hip osteoarthritis pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2021. DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-102179.

3. FDA states plainly that no stem cell, exosome, stromal vascular fraction, umbilical cord blood, Wharton's jelly or amniotic-fluid product has been approved for the treatment of ANY orthopedic condition - it names osteoarthritis, tendonitis, disc disease, tennis elbow, back pain, hip pain, knee pain, neck pain and shoulder pain individually. The only FDA-approved stem cell products in the United States are cord-blood-derived blood-forming stem cells for disorders of the hematopoietic system, and there are currently no FDA-approved exosome products.

   US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research — Consumer Alert on Regenerative Medicine Products Including Stem Cells and Exosomes. FDA, 2020.