| Introduction |
 Often occurs in female runners - Is associated with training on banked surfaces
- Repetitive trauma caused by iliotibial band tracking over trochanteric bursa
- can irritate the bursa causing inflammation
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| Anatomy |
- Trochanteric bursa is superficial to the hip abductor muscles and deep to the iliotibial band
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| Presentation |
- Symptoms
- lateral sided hip pain, although hip joint is not involved
- Physical exam
- pain with palpation over greater trochanter
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| Imaging |
- Radiographs
- MRI
- will show increased signal in bursa due to inflammation on T2 sequence
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| Treatment |
- Nonoperative
- NSAIDS, stretching, PT including modalities, corticosteroid injections
- indications
- first line treatment is always conservative
- Operative
- open vs arthroscopic trochanteric bursectomy
- indications
- is done only after conservative measures fail
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