Your Corona Chiropractor offers a valuable non-invasive, drug-free approach to decreasing hip pain and often getting rid of it altogether. Whenever possible, surgery should be seen as a final option. So, before you decide on hip surgery, ask yourself the following questions: Does hip pain wake you up at night and make a good night’s sleep unattainable? When you arise in the morning, and/or when you get out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it initially difficult to move your legs? Do you feel pain in one or both hips when you cross your legs or rotate or twist your hips? If these symptoms sound familiar, it is likely that you have asymmetries and alignment problems in your lower extremities that, in addition to causing your hip pain, can eventually lead to osteoarthritis in your hips if not treated. The good news is that chiropractic treatment can help whether or not degenerative changes have already taken place!
It may be true that you’re getting older and your hip joints just aren’t what they used to be. But, are you aware that your hip pain and related problems, which usually signal age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be caused by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In the majority of cases, rather than being the root cause of your pain, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is frequently the consequence of a earlier injury (or injuries) to your hips.
Hip problems oftentimes have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, as in the case of walking. If you “pronate” when you walk, like a duck, with your toes pointing away from your body, it is inevitable that you will feel pain in your hips due to the asymmetrical stress on your hip joints and your body’s efforts to compensate. Thankfully, you can learn to correct your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can help you to do it.
In addition, you may have undergone gait changes as the result of an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical changes generate pain in the hip(s). Naturally, if not remedied, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, like wear and tear that produces degenerative changes.
Other situations that can frequently injure the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that requires you to move your body in atypical ways. Also, transporting a child (or grandchild) on one hip can generate hip pain. Even the way you sit or driving for extended periods of time on a regular basis can cause hip injury and pain.
See? Not every pain is caused by “old age,” though we may suffer from more pain due to the progressive activity of untreated injuries.
Your chiropractor in Corona will treat our hip problem directly, and as part of your chiropractic management will recommend special rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also analyze your gait and may recommend simple pattern changes.
Your hip pain won’t go away by itself. Hip pain is a symptom informing you that there’s a condition that requires correcting. If left untreated, more than likely that at some point you will require that hip replacement surgery. So, don’t wait until it’s too late. Your chiropractor in Corona can get you out of pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!