Archive for the ‘hip pain’ Category
July 29th, 2010 | 
Author: Your Corona Chiropractor offers a potent non-surgical, drug-free approach to decreasing hip pain and often eliminating it altogether. Whenever possible, surgery should be seen as a final option. Therefore, before you schedule a surgery to replace that hip, ask yourself the following questions: Is it impossible for you to get a good night’s sleep because your hip pain wakes you up in the night? When you get out of bed in the morning, and/or when you step out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it hard at first to move your legs? Do you feel pain whenever you rotate or twist them or when you cross your legs? If these symptoms sound familiar, it is likely that you have imbalances and alignment problems in your lower extremities that are not only causing your hip pain, but can lead to osteoarthritis in your hips in the future if not treated. The good news is that chiropractic treatment can help whether or not degenerative changes have already taken place!
You may be getting older and it may be true that your hip joints aren’t what they used to be. Even so, did you know that your hip pain and related problems, which usually signal age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be created by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In fact, rather than being the root cause of your condition, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is often the consequence of a prior injury (or injuries) to your hips.
Hip problems commonly have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, like walking for example. If you tend to walk “pronated” like a duck, with your toes pointing away from your body, sooner or later you will experience pain in your hips as a result of the asymmetrical stress on your hip joints and your body’s efforts to compensate. Fortunately, you can learn to change your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can show you how to do it.
Moreover, you may have developed gait changes because of an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical alterations generate pain in the hip(s). There is no doubt that, if not treated, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, which is the wear and tear that creates degenerative changes.
Other situations that can frequently adversely affect the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that necessitates your moving your body in atypical ways. Also, transporting a child (or grandchild) on one hip can create hip pain. Even the way you sit or driving for prolonged periods of time on a regular basis can cause hip injury and pain.
So you can see that not every pain is caused by “old age,” even though we may experience more pain as the result of the progressive activity of untreated injuries.
In addition to your adjustments, as an integral part of your chiropractic management, your Corona Chiropractor will provide appropriate rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also study your gait and may recommend simple pattern changes.
Your hip pain won’t vanish by itself. Hip pain is a signal that something needs correcting. If neglected, there is a good possibility that you will eventually require that hip replacement surgery. So, don’t put off until tomorrow, what truly needs to be done today. Your Corona Chiropractor can get you out of pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!
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