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Gout: The Joint Pain People Don’t Expect
Key Takeaways Gout tends to arrive suddenly, often overnight, as severe pain, swelling and redness in a single joint, most often the big toe. It comes from urate crystals that build up quietly over months or years, so a first flare can strike someone who feels otherwise well. Repeated flares can wear down a joint…
Is My Hip Pain Coming From My Hip or My Back?
Key Takeaways Hip-joint pain tends to sit deep in the groin or front of the thigh and worsens with weight through the leg. Back-related pain more often spreads through the buttock and down the leg, and can change with how you sit or bend. Numbness, tingling or weakness in the leg points more towards the…
Sudden Hip Pain With No Injury
Sudden hip pain with no injury? Dr Donald Cawthorne explains avascular necrosis, femoral neck stress fracture and transient osteoporosis of the hip.
Clicking, Cracking, Popping Joints: Harmless or a Warning Sign?
Key Takeaways Most joint noise comes from gas releasing inside the joint fluid or from soft tissue moving over bone, and neither is a sign of damage. The sound on its own, however loud or frequent, is not a reliable warning; what matters is whether pain, swelling or a mechanical problem comes with it. Cracking…
Hip Pain at Night and When Lying on Your Side: Why It Happens
Key Takeaways Lying on your side presses your body weight onto the outer hip, loading the gluteal tendons and bursa, which is why the pain often peaks in bed. The most common cause of outer hip pain at night is greater trochanteric pain syndrome; deeper groin pain suggests hip osteoarthritis, and buttock or leg pain…
Hip Stiffness Putting On Shoes And Socks
Can’t reach your foot for socks and shoes? Learn why hip rotation is lost first in hip osteoarthritis, a home self-check and how MTP Health can help.
Hip Replacement Pain That Isn’t Settling
Pain after a hip replacement that isn’t settling? Dr Donald Cawthorne explains what it can mean, how it is assessed and when revision is discussed.
Deep Buttock Pain: Tendon, Nerve Or Hip Joint
Deep buttock pain can come from the hamstring tendon, the sciatic nerve or the hip joint. Learn how to tell them apart and how MTP Health treats each one.
Hip Pain After A Fall In Your 60s
Hip pain after a fall in your 60s may be a fracture, bone bruise or gluteal tendon injury. Dr Donald Cawthorne explains how to tell them apart.
Outer Hip Pain When Lying On Your Side
Outer hip pain when lying on your side is usually gluteal tendinopathy, bursitis or a tendon tear. MTP Health explains the causes, sleep fixes and next steps.
Why Hip Problems Cause Groin Pain
Groin pain is often the hip joint, not a pulled muscle. Dr Donald Cawthorne explains why hip problems refer pain to the groin and what MTP Health can do.
Knee Pain With A Normal Knee Scan
Knee pain but a normal MRI? Dr Jonathan Negus explains how hip arthritis, lower back nerve roots and load present as knee pain, and what to do next.
Bone Bruise And Bone Marrow Lesion Knee Pain
Bone bruise or bone marrow lesion on your knee MRI? Dr Jonathan Negus explains why bone hurts, healing times, loading and when subchondroplasty may help.
A Swollen Knee: What The Fluid Tells You
How fast a knee swells, and whether it keeps returning, points to the cause. Dr Jonathan Negus explains what the fluid means and when to seek help.
Morning Joint Stiffness: Why It Happens and How Long Is Normal
Key Takeaways Brief morning stiffness that eases within about half an hour is common and usually mechanical. Osteoarthritis stiffness is often short but may last up to an hour, while inflammatory arthritis can last much longer. Duration is only part of the picture. Which joints are involved, one side or both, and how the stiffness…
Knee Pain After A Twisting Injury
Twisted your knee? Learn how ACL, meniscus and MCL injuries differ, what to do in the first 72 hours and when to book an assessment with MTP Health.
Why Joint Pain Feels Worse at Night, and What Actually Helps
Key Takeaways Joint pain at night often worsens because anti-inflammatory cortisol falls overnight while inflammation rises, and stillness, sleep position and fading pain relief add to it. Warmth before bed, pillows that support the sore joint, a steady wind-down and sensible timing of activity and stimulants may help you settle enough to sleep. Over weeks,…
Adult Hip Dysplasia: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment Options
Key Takeaways Adult hip dysplasia means the hip socket is too shallow to fully cover the ball, so load concentrates on the labrum and cartilage rim, and pain tends to surface in adulthood. The usual pattern is groin or deep hip pain, a sense of instability or catching, and fatigue that builds with standing, walking…
Knee Locking, Catching And Giving Way
Knee locking, catching or giving way? Learn how to tell a true mechanical lock from pseudo-locking and reflex giving way, and when to book an assessment.
Outer Knee Pain: Causes And When It Matters
Outer knee pain has different causes after 40. Dr Jonathan Negus explains lateral meniscus tears, alignment, when it matters and what MTP Health can do.