Corona Chiropractor Explains How Chiropractic Treatment Can Eliminate Hip Pain
May 15th, 2010 | by admin |Where hip pain relief is concerned, your chiropractor in Corona offers potent non-invasive, drug-free treatment. Whenever possible, surgery should be seen as a last resort. Therefore, before you schedule a surgery to replace that hip, consider the following questions: Is it out of the question for you to get a good night’s sleep because your hip pain wakes you up at 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 difficult at first 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 you’ve answered “yes” to any or all of these questions you probably have imbalances and misalignments in your lower extremities that, in addition to causing your hip pain, can over time lead to osteoarthritis in your hips if not treated. The good news is that whether or not degenerative changes have already begun, chiropractic treatment can help!
It may be true that you’re getting older and your hip joints just aren’t what they used to be. But, did you know that your hip pain (and related problems), which generally point to age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be created by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In fact, rather than being the root cause of your problem, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is more often than not the result of a earlier injury (or injuries) to your hips.
Frequently, hip problems have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, like walking for instance. If you tend to walk “pronated” like a duck, with your toes pointing away from your body, it is inevitable that you will feel pain in your hips as a result of the asymmetrical tension on your hip joints and your body’s efforts to compensate. However, you can make changes in your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can show you how to do it.
Moreover, you may have had 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 accommodations generate hip pain. There is no doubt that, if not corrected, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, namely, the wear and tear that creates degenerative changes.
Other activities 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 uncommon ways. Also, ferrying a child (or grandchild) on one hip can create hip pain. Even your sitting position or driving for long 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 as the result of the progressive activity of untreated injuries.
As part of the chiropractic management of your hip problem, along with your adjustments, your Corona Chiropractor will provide individualized rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also analyze your gait and may suggest simple pattern changes.
Your hip pain won’t disappear on its own. Hip pain is a signal that there’s a problem that requires correcting. If put off, it is very likely that at some point you will require that hip replacement surgery. So, don’t put off until tomorrow, what truly needs to be done today. Your Corona Chiropractor can eliminate your hip pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!
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