NEWSLETTER The Newsletter About Your Health And Caring For Your Body HEAL YOUR HIP PAIN Live Your Life Without Fear
Quick, point to your hip joint! Many people will point to the top of their pelvis where you would put your hands if someone said 'put your hands on your hips.' Your hip joint is actually a few inches lower where your thigh bone meets your pelvis. As major load bearing joints, your hips have to withstand 3 times your body weight when you climb stairs and as much as 10 times your body weight when you run! Your hips are ball and socket joints, the most mobile type of joint in the body, but with more motion comes more potential for dysfunction. If you have hip pain, you're not alone. In the clinic, we often see people of every age and gender with pain on all different sides of their hips. Hip pain can be the result of a traumatic injury, a structural abnormality, bad movement habits, or dysfunction elsewhere in the body. Pain on the Side of the Hip Common diagnoses you'll hear for pain on the side of the hip are bursitis and IT band syndrome. Bursitis means inflammation of a small fluid-filled bursa sac that is meant to prevent excessive friction between layers of tissue. If your bursa sac is inflamed, that means there was too much friction for your bursa sac to handle and a larger biomechanical problem is likely afoot. The same is true of IT band syndrome. Contrary to popular belief, IT bands cannot be stretched and the pain is often due to tightness in the surrounding muscles, poor pelvic mobility, muscle weakness, and poorly coordinated muscular control. Pain in the Front of the Hip Usually referred to as hip impingement, pain in the front of the hip
is often experienced while squatting and driving. Common causes of hip impingement are poor hip and pelvic mobility, a lack of core muscle activation and strength (this includes your abdominal and pelvic floor muscles!), and using the wrong muscles at the wrong time (especially the adductors). A comprehensive exam can determine not just which structure is causing your hip pain, but how those structures became irritated in the first place. If you are suffering from hip pain, call us today to learn how we can put the spring back in your step!
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