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Suggest Non Surgical Treatment For Pain In Hip

Is it possible to relieve bone on bone pain without having hip replacement surgery. A family member is about 78 yrs old. Needs a hip replacement, but she is too weak to have according to her doctors. She also suffers from parkinsons. She is in constant pain 24/7. Excrutiating pain. Her subscribed pain medication is just not helping. Can anything be done?
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She can be given joint injections to replace synovial fluid and pain mediciations can be enhanced. Otherwise last resort is hip replacement only.
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Suggest Non Surgical Treatment For Pain In Hip

She can be given joint injections to replace synovial fluid and pain mediciations can be enhanced. Otherwise last resort is hip replacement only.