Do you feel pain in one or both hips whenever you rotate them or when you cross your legs? Does the pain wake you up in the night and make it difficult to get a good night’s rest? When you get out of bed in the morning, or when you get out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it hard, at first, to move your legs? If so, you may have imbalances and alignment problems in the lower part of your body that, in addition to causing hip pain, can eventually produce degenerative joint disease in your hips if not treated.
Even though hip pain and related problems are usually signs of age-related degenerative conditions, especially osteoarthritis of the hip joint, osteoarthritis isn’t always the culprit. In fact, rather than being the original cause of the problem, osteoarthritis of the hip joint can be the eventual result of injury to your hips at a previous time.
Damage as the result of biomechanical problems, such as an ankle sprain or knee strain, can generate changes in your gait that can cause hip pain. Furthermore, your gait may shift to compensate for new activities such as a job change, an alteration in the way you sit, a new sport or activity, or if you start driving for long periods of time on a regular basis..
In addition, gait asymmetries can be caused by leg length dissimilarities, foot pronation problems, even carrying a baby or small child on your hip. In other words, anything that produces an asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion can cause painful hip problems.
Along with your adjustments, as part of the chiropractic management of your hip problem your chiropractor may determine that you require orthotics. Your chiropractor will also offer applicable progressive rehabilitative exercises that include muscle stretching and strengthening.
Hip pain won’t disappear on its own. Hip pain means that something needs to be remedied. Get out of pain, get back in balance, and get your life back now!
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