Osteoarthritis Clinic · Self-tracking tool

Hip injection pain tracker

If you have had a guided injection into your hip joint, this tool helps you record your hip pain at set times afterwards, from a few hours later out to three months. A guided injection means the needle is placed using ultrasound or X-ray, which is the usual way to reach the hip because it sits deep in the body. Saving your readings builds a simple picture of whether the injection eased your pain, and how long the relief lasted, to review with Dr. Mahendira.

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iRate your hip pain from 0 to 10, where 0 is no pain and 10 is the worst pain you can imagine. Record the day of the injection first, then come back at each time to add the next reading. This tool runs entirely in your browser: nothing you enter is saved to a server or sent anywhere. Saving stores your readings only in this browser, on this device.

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How to read this. A lower number means less pain. When a bar sits below the dashed baseline line, your pain at that time was lower than on the day of the injection. Any single reading is one data point for a conversation with your team, not a diagnosis or a treatment decision on its own. Your care team will help work out whether a change is meaningful for you.

What the summary compares

The summary graph lines up your pain on the day of the injection (baseline) against your average pain in five windows afterwards, so you can see the size and the staying power of any relief:

First 24 hours: the average of your 3 hour, 6 hour, 12 hour and Day 1 readings. Early relief here often comes partly from the local anaesthetic mixed with the injection, so it can fade. Some people also feel a short flare in the first day or two, which usually settles.

First 7 days: the average of your Day 1, 2, 3 and 7 readings, as the injection itself starts to take effect.

1 month, 2 months and 3 months: your single reading at each, which shows how long any benefit lasts.

Pain is recorded on a 0 to 10 numeric rating scale. This tool is for tracking your own trend over time; it is not a validated score with a fixed cut-off.

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