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.
Step 4. Prune your blueberries in late winter when the plant is dormant. Cut out dead or diseased branches, branches that cross and any branches that are smaller than the diameter of a pencil. Pruning is done mostly to clean up the bush and maintain its size and shape.