Though frustrating and difficult, hip pain is often preventable—and even when it isn't, it's nearly always treatable.

“You know [trochanteric abductor dysfunction] as trochanteric bursitis…but I know it ... peritrochanteric pain and limp before and after hip replacement, and it is not readily identifiable ...

So prevalent, in fact, "that it's the second most common form of joint replacement after knee replacement ... that cushion the hip joint—a medical condition known as bursitis.