A pain on the outside of your hip bone that sometimes extends to your thigh might be a case of gluteal tendinopathy. Here’s ...

On December 22nd of 2023, a Vietnamese patient underwent hours-long surgery in order to remove part of his pelvis and femur, as per the usual treatment for bone cancer. What was special here was ...

Your hip joint is where your thigh bone (femur) and pelvis meet. The upper thigh bone ends in a ball that fits inside the socket (acetabulum) of your pelvis. If a child’s hip socket does not develop ...

Lucy's pelvic, hip, and leg bones offered more proof. As in a human, Lucy's thighbones (femurs) angle in from the hip toward the knee. Her shinbones (tibiae) then descend straight to the ground ...

Technically, the hip is a ball and socket joint connecting the thigh bone to the pelvis, but we often think of it more as the region from the top of the pelvis to the base of the buttocks.