Pain in hips,knees age 63+

Good rant.

Just be glad you had running into your 60’s. I only made it til 42 when years of high mileage on hard surfaces and inherited propensity for hip arthritis resulted in a joint replacement and ultimately pushed me into cycling as well.

BRLT wrote:

Yea , been running 50+ years and the hip arthritis in let hip has caused a bad gait and now runners knee in opposite leg with bursitis. Gotta say the bike is my new addiction. It is just a battle running . Took some days off running. OK a week , it helped ran 3 yesterday and 3+ today and everything hurts again . Might need to just bike for a month . Just that a mix of road biking with cars and on the trainer in the hot garage watching bad Netflix shows for 200 miles a week just ain’t running . Rant over.

Hi, BRLT, I know it's an old post but I've seen your other post in which you said your symptoms mimic greater trochanteric bursitis which caught my attention, because like you, I have also been dealing with side hip pain for quite some time (almost 3 years), and I'm only 27.

I don't have the groin pain which is a tell-tale sign of hip arthritis. I can put on shoes easily (can do pistol squats actually), but my side hip pain never goes away even with rest, and been to several doctors and PTs. I wonder if you can please shed some light on that, like what symptoms other than side hip pain do you have? (e.g: limited hip internal rotation, hip labral tear...etc)

I really want to run, albeit being slow, but I dare not do so because of the fear that it may make things worse.

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I'm not of that age but what about lifting? incorporating a lifting routine may strengthen the body enough and work on your imbalances so that when you return to running you may find you can do it again pain free