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If any of this sounds familiar, you're not alone — and it's exactly what we help patients with, every day.
Inflammation of the bursa on the outer point of the hip, one of the most common causes of hip pain, typically causing sharp pain on the outside of the hip that's often worse at night or lying on that side.
Inflammation of the bursa at the front of the hip, often causing deep groin pain that can worsen with hip flexion, such as climbing stairs or getting out of a car.
Inflammation of the bursa at the base of the buttock, often causing pain when sitting for long periods, particularly on hard surfaces.
Wear and degeneration of the hip joint itself, often causing groin, thigh, or buttock pain, stiffness, and a gradual reduction in range of movement.
Degeneration or irritation of the tendons attaching the gluteal muscles to the hip, frequently misdiagnosed as bursitis alone, given the overlapping pain pattern.
Damage to the cartilage ring lining the hip socket, often causing a catching or clicking sensation alongside deep hip or groin pain.
Tightness or spasm in the piriformis muscle deep in the buttock, which can irritate the sciatic nerve and cause pain that mimics or overlaps with hip bursitis.
Hip pain linked to training load, running biomechanics, or muscular imbalance, common in runners and athletes increasing mileage or intensity too quickly.
Whether it's a sharp pain on the outside of your hip, a deep ache that limits walking, or pain that's spread down your leg, we take a thorough, evidence-based approach to identifying exactly what's driving your hip pain, then build a treatment plan around you — drawing on the most appropriate combination of hands-on therapy, targeted rehabilitation, and advanced treatments available across our clinic, including shockwave therapy, to relieve your symptoms and address the underlying cause.
Hip bursitis is one of our clinic's specialities, and we regularly see patients who've been diagnosed elsewhere, tried the standard advice, and found the pain keeps returning. Getting the right diagnosis matters here, since bursitis can overlap with, or be mistaken for, gluteal tendinopathy or a labral issue — treating the wrong structure means the pain simply comes back.
What makes our approach different is how we combine everything into one coordinated plan, rather than offering treatments in isolation. Your care may bring together shockwave therapy — one of the most well-evidenced treatments specifically for chronic bursitis — genuinely hands-on osteopathy and physiotherapy to address surrounding muscular imbalance, expert clinical guidance throughout, and a guided, structured rehabilitation programme to strengthen the hip and reduce load on the irritated area.
Our aim isn't just to settle the immediate pain, but to properly resolve the underlying problem through this combined approach, so you can get back to walking, training, and sleeping comfortably — with a plan in place to help stop it coming back.