Hip pain can be caused by various pathological factors involving the hip joint and its accessory structures, resulting in localised pain, mainly due to trauma, strain, bone disease and other causes, often aggravated by activity. Acute pain is often related to trauma, resulting in local fractures and discontinuity of bony structures; chronic pain is more often seen in femoral head necrosis, hip osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, hip tuberculosis and rheumatoid arthritis involving the hip joint.