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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.
Kneecap Pain On Stairs And After Sitting
Front-of-knee pain on stairs and after sitting? MTP Health explains patellofemoral pain, kneecap tracking and arthritis, and when to see a knee surgeon.
Multiple Joint Pain: Causes and What It Can Mean
Key Takeaways Pain in several joints at once usually points to a form of arthritis, most often osteoarthritis, though inflammatory, crystal and viral causes are common. Symmetric swelling, morning stiffness lasting more than 30 minutes and body-wide symptoms all lean towards an inflammatory or systemic cause. A hot, red, severely painful joint, or joint pain…
Serious Joint Pain: Red Flags and When to See a Doctor
Key Takeaways A hot, swollen joint with a fever can be a sign of a joint infection, which is a medical emergency and needs same-day care. Severe pain, obvious deformity or a joint you cannot bear weight on after a fall may point to a fracture or dislocation. Pain that lasts beyond a few days,…
Knee Pain Going Down Stairs and Downhill: What It Means
Key Takeaways Going down stairs or slopes loads the kneecap joint more than level walking, because the quadriceps brake the bending knee, so pain often appears on the way down first. The front of the knee is the usual source, with patellofemoral pain the most common reason, though patellar tendinopathy, early osteoarthritis, a meniscus tear…
My Knee Is Swollen and Sore: When Should I Worry?
Key Takeaways A knee that is hot and swollen with a fever, or one leg with calf swelling and pain, needs same-day or emergency assessment, not a wait-and-see approach. Swelling that balloons within an hour of an impact usually means blood in the joint and should be checked promptly. Most swollen knees settle within a…
Inner Knee Pain and Why the Side of Your Knee Hurts
Key Takeaways The side your knee hurts on shortlists the cause, because the inner and outer knee hold different structures. Inner knee pain most often comes from the medial collateral ligament, the medial meniscus, medial compartment osteoarthritis, pes anserine bursitis or an irritated medial plica. Outer knee pain usually traces to the iliotibial band, the…
Tennis Elbow vs Golfer’s Elbow: Which One Do You Have?
Key Takeaways Tennis elbow causes pain on the outer side of the elbow and golfer’s elbow on the inner side, which is the clearest way to tell them apart. Gripping and bending the wrist back aggravate tennis elbow, while bending the wrist forward and rotating the forearm aggravate golfer’s elbow, and both can weaken grip.…
Dislocated Shoulder: When Does It Need Surgery?
Key Takeaways Surgery is usually considered when a shoulder keeps dislocating, when scans show bone loss, or when a first dislocation carries a high risk of returning. Many first-time dislocations, particularly in older or lower-demand people, settle with a sling and guided rehabilitation instead of an operation. Younger people and those in contact sport face…