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Your Corona Chiropractor provides a valuable non-invasive, drug-free approach to relieving 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, consider the following questions: Does hip pain wake you up in the night and make a good night’s sleep unattainable? When you arise 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 whenever you rotate or twist them or when you cross your legs? If you’ve answered “yes” to any or all of these questions you probably have asymmetries 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 whether or not degenerative changes have already taken place, chiropractic treatment can help!
You may be getting older and it may be true that your hip joints aren’t what they used to be. Even so, are you aware that your hip pain (and related problems), which normally are thought to be age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be produced by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In the majority of cases, as opposed to being the original source of your pain, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is frequently the outcome of a previous injury (or injuries) to your hips.
Hip problems frequently 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 pressure on your hip joints as your body attempts to compensate. Fortunately, you can make changes in your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can show you how to do it.
Furthermore, you may have developed 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 create hip pain. Of course, if not remedied, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, namely, the wear and tear that leads to degenerative changes.
Other circumstances that can occasionally injure the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that makes it necessary for you to move your body in unfamiliar ways. Also, carrying a child (or grandchild) on one hip can cause hip pain. Even your sitting position or driving for prolonged periods of time on a regular basis can cause hip injury and pain.
Isn’t it good to know that not every pain is caused by “old age,” even though we may suffer from more pain due to the progressive activity of untreated injuries.
And important aspect of the chiropractic management of your hip problem, in addition to your adjustments, your Corona Chiropractor will recommend special rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also study your gait and may offer simple pattern changes.
Your hip pain won’t disappear on its own. Hip pain means that there’s an injury that needs treatment. If put off, 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 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!