However, the pain may originate from somewhere else - like your chest or pelvic region.
I believe that the pain in your hips is originating in your hip flexors, a powerful group of muscles that, when contracted, flex your hip.
Miller and Texidor suggested that the pain may originate in the parietal pleura of the lungs.
The spine is a complex structure made up from bone, cartilage, muscle, fascia and nerves and pain can originate in any of these.
He felt the sharp pain originate in his heart and spread outward to his arms and fingers.
It should be stressed that while pain often originates or is centered in these areas it can also spread or be diffuse in nature.
This is done topically to a patient having sympathetically maintained pain at a peripheral site where the pain originates.
The ambiguity in symptoms is caused by the fact that the nerves in the stomach and heart don't clearly signal to the brain where pain originates.
As a result, it is difficult to accurately determine the site from which the pain originates.
Chronic pain may originate with an initial trauma/injury or infection, or there may be an ongoing cause of pain.