Is the pain on the bone of the hip? I had that and thought it was a bad hip joint. The Dr said the pain was not near the crotch so it was not where the joint attaches to the pelvis. He said that there is a ligament that runs from the hip, down the outside right over the femur and it often gets inflamed due to roughness.
He gave me some exercises to stretch out that ligament. After a couple of months the pain was gone.
This is on the outside of the hip, at the corner.
Always thought I was immune given my flexibility but, who knows..
I love to stretch but, I haven’t been doing all of them over the last three years with my shoulder operations.
I can do em now and should go back to regularly stretching...