If You Suffer From Hip Pain, Chiropractic Management Can Help
Do you experience pain in one or both hips whenever you twist them or when you cross your legs? Does the pain wake you up in the night and make it impossible to get a good night’s sleep? 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 you answered in the affirmative to any or all of the previous questions you may have imbalances and alignment problems in your lower extremities that, in addition to generating hip pain, can eventually bring about degenerative hip joint disease if not addressed.
Though hip pain and related problems commonly point to age-related degenerative conditions, especially osteoarthritis of the hip joint, osteoarthritis isn’t always the “bad guy”. In fact, instead of causing the original problem, osteoarthritis of the hip joint can be the eventual result of damage to your hips at a previous time.
Damage due to biomechanical problems, such as an ankle sprain or knee strain, can cause changes in your gait that can cause hip pain. Moreover, your gait may reposition to compensate for new body demands 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 imbalances can occur from carrying a baby or small child on your hip, leg length variances, or foot pronation challenges. Strictly speaking, anything that generates an asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion can bring about painful hip problems.
As part of the chiropractic management of your hip problem, along with adjustments, your chiropractor may suggest that you wear 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 indicates that something needs correcting. Your chiropractor can help to get you out of pain, get back into balance, and get your life back!
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