Osteopenia can cause hip pain, although osteopenia itself usually doesn't cause any pain, because osteopenia is often a silent condition.
Although the weakened bones in osteopenia can increase your risk of painful microfractures or even full hip fractures, which can lead to hip pain and groin pain, limping and even limited movement, especially with activity.
Other causes of hip pain include arthritis and muscle strain and even running too long or overuse.
But stress from weak bones in osteopenia makes the fractures more likely, and severe pain often signals a possible fracture or inflammation like transient osteoporosis.
Another condition that can cause hip pain is hip back syndrome which is a medical condition that is complex and occurs when lumbar spinal stenosis "narrowing of the spine", and degenerative hip arthritis exist at the same time.
The hip back syndrome causes pain that overlaps in your lower back, glutes, groin or thighs and makes it difficult to distinguish whether the pain you're feeling comes from hip, the spine or both.
Common symptoms of hip back syndrome are severe pain that occurs when walking, numbness and tingling in your legs, which is also known as radiculopathy, and needing to sit down to relieve pain, and often needing to lean on something like a wall or shopping cart when shopping or anytime else.
The hip back syndrome condition is also classified into 4 types.
These 4 types of hip back syndrome are simple, which has a clear and single source, complex, which lacks a single source and secondary, which has interrelated pathologies.
And sometimes hip back syndrome can be misdiagnosed for other conditions.
Also because of the overlapping nature of the symptoms of hip back syndrome, the diagnosis of hip back syndrome often also requires careful evaluation.
And treatments for hip back syndrome often involve the use of conservative care, physical therapy and strengthening or if you need surgery, the surgeons often treat the hip back syndrome, by treating your hip first and then your spine or sometimes vice versa.
Hip back syndrome is largely a degenerative issue in older adults, in which a stiff hip or even a rigid spine causes the other part of your body to compensate, which increases the strain and wear.
Being able to distinguish between the tow or identifying both conditions is also crucial because treating only one area may not resolve the symptoms or condition of hip back syndrome.
Hip back syndrome and spinal stenosis and lumbar spinal conditions can be very disabling and prevent a person from working or doing daily tasks.
Those with hip back syndrome, hip pine syndrome or people with spinal stenosis or lumbar spinal conditions can also have similar walking difficulties.
Their problems usually manifest with hip pain—not in the front part of this hip, but mostly on the back or buttock part, so it's a different type of a hip problem.