If you have gluteal tendinopathy or hip bursitis, sleep can become frustrating and painful – especially if your hip hurts regardless of which side you’re lying on! Here are a few simple sleeping tips you can try to make nights more comfortable while you continue your rehab.

If you have gluteal tendinopathy or hip bursitis, you might notice that sitting and even relaxed standing positions can quietly aggravate your symptoms. In this article, I’ll explain why this is and show you a few simple posture tweaks you can try right away to make sitting and standing more comfortably and to help calm things down while you continue your rehab.

In this article: Hip bursitis symptoms and causes as well as how to treat it, including massage and which exercises to avoid.

Hip bursitis or trochanteric bursitis is a tricky condition. It’s sometimes called “the great mimicker” because its symptoms are easily mistaken for other conditions like back pain or gluteal muscle injuries. But I’ve also found that quite a few patients I’ve seen have been misdiagnosed as having trochanteric bursitis when in fact the pain was caused by something else. Some of the links in this article are to pages where you can buy products or brands discussed or mentioned h