Patients regularly present for Physiotherapy with lateral hip pain. This is often aggravated by walking or standing, sidesleeping, performing hip stretches, and sitting, amongst other activities, and lateral hip pain can often mimic lumbar spine pathology. In this podcast, Alison and I discuss symptoms, assessment and treatment of an extremely common cause of lateral hip pain – Glute Med Tendinopathy (GMT), a condition which is often misdiagnosed as Trochanteric Bursitis.

Some of the aspects we explore in this podcast are:

Subjective clues that someone may have a Glute Med Tendinopathy
"Trochanteric Bursitis"
Differentiating Glute Med Tendinopathy from pain of Lumbar origin
Assessment of the hip
Tests to confirm or rule out a Glute Med Tendinopathy
Causes of a Glute Med Tendinopathy
Advice for patients
Treatment of Glute Med Tendinopathy
Deep hip muscle activation
Essential elements for an effective treatment program much more

Links of interest

09. Lateral hip pain with Dr Alison Grimaldi

Physio Edge podcast with David Pope

09. Lateral hip pain with Dr Alison Grimaldi