Obama visits orthopedic doctor to deal with sore hip

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(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-07-28 13:50

CHICAGO -- Barack Obama, back in his home town after a tour of Afghanistan, the Middle East and Europe, saw a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center on Sunday night to deal with a sore hip.

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., leaves the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago, Sunday, July 27, 2008, after seeing a doctor about a sore hip. [Agencies]

"His hip has been sore from basketball for a few weeks, so he's going to see an orthopedic doctor," Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

As he left the hospital, Obama told reporters: "I had small X-rays. Everything's OK. I think I'm going to be good in about a week."

Obama is a lifelong basketball player, and he squeezes in a game every now and then on the campaign trail. At one stop during his overseas trip, he shot baskets with US troops in Afghanistan.