# Hip Care Starts by Finding the Cause of Your Soreness *Hip Treatment Options | Hip Regeneration Tempe* > Hip regeneration Tempe covers home care, a blood-based clinic procedure, and hip replacement alternatives without promising new cartilage. What can ease a sore hip? First, reduce the action that brings on the soreness. Keep some movement, but don't push through a limp. If the trouble continues, an exam can guide your next choice. ## Small home changes can ease the load on your hip Shorten your walk before soreness changes your steps. Put an easy day between harder days. A cane may also take some load off the hip. Ask how to hold it before using one. Gentle hip and trunk work can build strength. A clinician can show you moves that don't cause a limp. Medicine may help, but your heart, stomach, and kidneys matter. Don't change regular medicine without checking first. ## Regenerative care should come with plain procedure details After its clinicians review your health, QC Kinetix offers regenerative care, including PRP (platelet-rich plasma) made by drawing and spinning your blood. Spinning gathers more platelets into less plasma. A clinician places the concentrated plasma at the hip with a needle. That is what happens during this blood-based procedure. Ask whether the clinic plans to use PRP or something else. Find out how staff prepare it and the expected visit count. The talk should include cost, risks, and recovery. No clinic procedure can promise new cartilage. ## Hip replacement alternatives do not promise a set delay Hip replacement alternatives can include pacing, exercise, a cane, medicine, or a clinic procedure. The words don't tell you how long surgery can wait. Mild wear and manageable soreness can leave more choices open. Severe wear with major daily limits may make surgery clearer. Ask how each choice fits your exam and X-ray. Also ask what might happen if you wait. Growing weakness or less movement can carry its own cost. You'll want an honest talk about surgery as well as non-surgical care. ## Sources 1. A JAMA review of hip and knee osteoarthritis reports OA affects more than 240 million people worldwide and more than 32 million in the US, names pain elicited with internal hip rotation as a diagnostically useful hip examination finding, identifies exercise, weight loss where appropriate and education as the cornerstones of management complemented by topical or oral NSAIDs, notes intra-articular steroid gives short-term relief, and states that opiates should be avoided. Katz JN, Arant KR, Loeser RF — [Diagnosis and Treatment of Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis: A Review.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33560326/). *JAMA*, 2021. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.22171. 2. The AAOS 2024 clinical practice guideline summary for management of osteoarthritis of the hip is based on a systematic review of studies in adults 18 and older and contains eight recommendations and nine options; it also explicitly highlights gaps in the literature and areas needing future research. Hannon CP, et al. — [American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Clinical Practice Guideline Summary: Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hip.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38781351/). *Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons*, 2024. DOI: 10.5435/JAAOS-D-24-00420. 3. A population-based analysis of 63,158 total hip replacements found 10-year implant survival of 95.6% and 20-year survival of 85.0%, but the LIFETIME risk of revision rose sharply with younger age at surgery - about 5% for those operated after 70, up to 35% (95% CI 30.9-39.1) for men in their early 50s, with a median time to revision of 4.4 years in those operated before 60. Bayliss LE, et al. — [The effect of patient age at intervention on risk of implant revision after total replacement of the hip or knee: a population-based cohort study.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28209371/). *The Lancet*, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30059-4. 4. The 2019 ACR/Arthritis Foundation guideline makes STRONG recommendations for exercise, weight loss in people with overweight or obesity, self-efficacy and self-management programs, tai chi, cane use, tibiofemoral bracing, topical NSAIDs, oral NSAIDs and intra-articular glucocorticoid injection in knee OA. Notably it does NOT strongly recommend any biologic injectable. Kolasinski SL, et al. — [2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31908163/). *Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.)*, 2020. DOI: 10.1002/art.41142. 5. OARSI 2019 designates arthritis education plus structured land-based exercise (with or without dietary weight management) as CORE treatments for knee OA and strongly recommends topical NSAIDs (Level 1A), while strongly recommending AGAINST oral and transdermal opioids (Level 5). The treatments with the strongest evidence in this condition remain the least dramatic ones. Bannuru RR, et al. — [OARSI guidelines for the non-surgical management of knee, hip, and polyarticular osteoarthritis.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31278997/). *Osteoarthritis and cartilage*, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2019.06.011. 6. The Cochrane review of exercise for knee osteoarthritis found high-quality evidence that land-based therapeutic exercise provides short-term benefit in pain and physical function, sustained for at least 2-6 months after the programme ends, with mild transient soreness the only reported adverse effect across 45 trials. It is the best-evidenced treatment for this condition and it costs nothing per injection. Fransen M, et al. — [Exercise for osteoarthritis of the knee.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25569281/). *The Cochrane database of systematic reviews*, 2015. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004376.pub3. 7. A randomized trial in the New England Journal of Medicine compared physical therapy against intra-articular glucocorticoid injection for knee osteoarthritis and found physical therapy produced better WOMAC outcomes at one year. When a clinic offers an injection, the comparator that matters is not 'nothing' - it is a course of supervised exercise. Deyle GD, et al. — [Physical Therapy versus Glucocorticoid Injection for Osteoarthritis of the Knee.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32268027/). *The New England journal of medicine*, 2020. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1905877. 8. In a 2-year RCT, intra-articular triamcinolone given every 12 weeks for knee OA produced significantly GREATER cartilage volume loss than saline, with no significant pain benefit. The most widely used joint injection in medicine is itself associated with structural harm on repeat dosing - relevant context when a clinic frames a biologic as 'the alternative to steroid shots'. McAlindon TE, et al. — [Effect of Intra-articular Triamcinolone vs Saline on Knee Cartilage Volume and Pain in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Clinical Trial.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28510679/). *JAMA*, 2017. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.5283. ## An exam can find where the soreness starts A webpage can't tell whether soreness starts in your joint, a tendon, or your back. The QC Kinetix Phoenix-area team can review your hip and explain its non-surgical clinic procedures. Bring your medicine list and notes about what makes the hip worse. Ask what fits your exam and what doesn't. 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