Hip Injuries in Runners and How to Manage Them

There are a lot of injuries that athletes can sustain, especially runners. Bursitis, tendonitis, osteoarthritis, and sports hernia or athletic pubalgia aka core muscle injury are some. Hip pain and hip injuries are some of the more common ones. Determining what’s causing the pain is the tricky part. To manage and prevent it, we should start by locating where it is.

The hip is a ball-and-socket type joint that is formed where the thigh bone (femur) meets the three bones that make up the pelvis. These are the ilium, located at the rear; the ischium located at the lower front; and above it, is the pubis. Hip pain is the common discomfort or sensation you feel in or around the hip joint area.