The Problem: Outdated Approaches and Persistent Hip Pain In many communities—including ours—the default approach to lateral hip pain is a blind injection over the greater trochanter after confirming tenderness on palpation. A quick landmark-based shot of steroid and local anesthetic into the presumed bursa is offered with the hope of relief. And occasionally, that might help—briefly. Especially if a small amount of local anesthetic with corticosteroid is carefully injected in