More Women Report on Hip Complaints

More Women Report on Hip Complaints About seven percent of Americans account problems on hip-related issues and more women suffers that men, based on government reports. Recently, Reuters reported about the hip replacement issue of Johnson & Johnson. The... More

More Women Report on Hip Complaints About seven percent of Americans account problems on hip-related issues and more women suffers that men, based on government reports. Recently, Reuters reported about the hip replacement issue of Johnson & Johnson. The company said hip replacement recall was taking aquarterly charge of $3 billion from its earnings. Dr. Stephanie E. Siegrist, spokeswoman for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and an orthopedic surgeon in Rochester, New York explains that women may claim that they are suffering from a hip pain, but what they may mean is they have pain in the side of the upper thigh or upper buttock, or they may be experiencing lower back pain. Pain in the hips may be an effect of the stabilizing of the hip joint by muscle tendons, other body tissues and hip joint structures. Some hip-related conditions occur on one side of the hip, while other conditions occur on both sides. For women, the most frequent causes of hip pain are: gynecol Less