Sounds more like a radiating pain from a back injury. I know I looked at my doc when he said it and thought it was ongoing knew. The L-5 nerve runs down the outer side of the leg in that area and can be so annoying.
I have had L4 and L5 with great pain down the outer thighs lately.
If you lay on your back, bring you knee up to the chest and then twist it to the opposite side. Should feel it.
Or if there is like a bursitis in that area, lay on your back and try to leg lift, it is screaming nasty pain, that is inflammation near the hip joint and outer thigh area.
I had to finally have some steroid shots to calm mine down. but sometimes a steroid pack will kick it.
Going through the same thing with my left arm right now. Trying to grasp a knife to cut food, hold a phone, twist my wrist, hold the steering wheel. phone pain. So I hope this calms it down. If not a shot to the shoulder/trap area will calm it I home.
Funny things about nerves, anywhere there is hinges like the hip, knee, or if it is the neck shoulder, will have pain to the elbow and hand.
rediculopathy......radiating pain.
Xrays show bone, no matter what they did for arm, no broken bone. But at this point if it goes on, an EMG will show something more then an MRI will.
It is the nerves that move the muscles that show up on the EMG. If it were sensory nerves, the ones that feel the heat of the candle instead of the ones that make the arm jerk away from the heat...
The tiny sensory ones are too small to be tested for nerve damage or compression.
Like a sciatica shoots down the butt into leg.....I had help with the epidural injections that really helped.
Try some toradol. great anti inflammatory, or Aspirin if you can take it. If it really inflames to walk, then have PCP give you an injection of Toradol.
This is great for my cervogenic migraines. too.
