Thank you for joining us for today’s livestream where we talked about hip pain, why you might have it, how to identify it, when you have arthritis and what you can do about it. Sometimes people will come into the clinic complaining of hip pain when the problem may not be in the hip at all.
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When people complain of hip pain, it’s usually at the front of the pelvis or at the side. Any strain of the hip joint itself is going to give you referral pain. For the majority of cases though, it’s likely to be wear and tear through the hips. Degenerative change in the hip often causes a loss of extension in the hips, meaning you may find it more difficult to push the leg back, you’ll likely have pain when doing this. Little by little, range of motion is lost which can perpetuate the problem. As you use less range of motion, you lose a little bit more and the cycle continues.
If it’s more towards the back of the hip, more on the glutes and buttocks, this is likely to be coming from the lower back. Degenerative changes, disc bulges or herniations, can cause pain in the ‘hip’ area but it’s more the buttocks that’s the problem, and this distinction allows your practitioner to be able to perform the correct stretches.
You need to improve the flexibility of the hip. As you get hip joint degeneration, it’s a ball and socket joint where the gap between the ball and socket lessens. It takes your brain time to catch up that there is a loss of space here, which can mean that the muscles around this area haven’t yet caught up with this change and adapted. Developing your core strength above the hips is going to be helpful, as will developing the strength of your lower body to support above and below this joint. Performing stretches that isolate the joints and muscles in the lower body is also going to be helpful. All of these processes we go through on our Back In Shape membership area.
The questions we answered today were: I fell over getting into a chair and now have pain in my hip, what should I do? What’s more common is that the pain is coming from your lower back and you’ve actually hurt that area rather than the hip. This may be an example of incorrectly referring to the buttocks rather than the hip.
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