The main symptom is pain over the outside of your upper thigh. Most cases are due to minor injury or inflammation to tissues in your upper, outer thigh area. Commonly the condition goes away on its own over time. Anti-inflammatory painkillers, physiotherapy and steroid injections can all sometimes help.
1 Remove any diseased or broken wood, plus crossing branches. You want the bush to have a narrow base and a wide, open top that allows sunlight and air in.  The best time to prune blueberry bushes is late winter while they're still dorant.
Pruning blueberries. 1  Blueberries produce fruit on branches that were produced the previous year. 2  For the first two or three years of a blueberry's life it's not necessary to prune it much, apart from keeping the plant tidy. After this, blueberries need regular pruning to maintain plant vigour and high quality berry production. 2  Prune them between November and March when the plant is dormant. 3  When pruning, take out any dead, dying and diseased wood. 4  Locate the oldest canes and remove one or two at the base each year.