Case Question - Hip pain and the GB channel

I am relatively new to acupuncture, and would like some feedback on this case.  I have a 60yo female patient who will be coming on Friday for her first acupuncture treatment.  She is currently having quite severe right sided hip pain which starts at the trochanter and radiates down the leg along the GB channel.  She has a stocky, athletic build, and, in the past was in the army, and then was a police officer.  Her gait is upright and stiff.  In conversation, she is always right, no matter what is being discussed.   She tends to be warm, and flushes easily.  She also has a habit of lightly punching people on the arm when she talks to them, if they are standing close together.  These characteristics make me think this is a GB excess case.  Do you agree?  So the treatment should be GB SG?   I have only done tonifying treatments on my patients to date, so, want to be sure that this looks like a case for draining, or diverting based on what we have been learning in this class.  Yes, I will check the abdomen and pulses before I treat, but, honestly, I do not have good skills in either of these areas, and have been going more on character and characteristics so far with Saam treatments.