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Lateral hip pain sometimes is called “greater trochanteric bursitis,” but the preferred term now is greater trochanteric pain syndrome (because this disorder usually is caused by gluteal tendinopathies, sometimes with adjacent bursitis). Although corticosteroids often are used in patients with greater trochanteric pain syndrome, the best treatment is unknown. In this multicenter trial from Australia, investigators randomized 204 patients (82% women; mean age, 55) with lateral hip pain for >3 months to education plus exercise, to corticosteroid injection, or to no treatment. Education-plus-exercise participants received 14 education sessions during 8 weeks on progressive tendon loading plus a targeted exercise program; injection participants…