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

Gluteal tendinopathy is usually identified by a tender feeling on the outside of your hip bone, known as your greater trochanter. The pain sometimes spreads down your outer thigh too. The ...

According to the Arthritis Foundation, the hip is one of the body’s largest weight-bearing joints. It is where the thigh bone meets the pelvis to form a ball-and-joint socket. The hip joint ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

Lucy's pelvic, hip, and leg bones offered more proof. As in a human, Lucy's thighbones (femurs) angle in from the hip toward the knee. Her shinbones (tibiae) then descend straight to the ground ...

Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved ...