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Risk factors
1. Age: It often happens to the elderly or women after menopause.
2. Obedient people would increase burden on joints of the lower limbs.
3. Patients who once had bone fracture, joint breakdown, injury of knee ligament or injury of meniscus.
4. People with legs of different length: the symptoms often occur on the longer leg.
5. Occupational or sport injury: people who need to walk, stand, climb up or move heavy things frequently.
6. Disorder of metabolism or endocrine disruption (hormone imbalance).
7. Heredity
8. Others: like congenital dysplasia of hip.
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