Santa Barbara Chiropractic can relieve your hip pain. Do you feel pain in one or both hips whenever you rotate them or when you cross your legs? Does the pain keep you awake at night and make it difficult to get a good night’s sleep? When you get up in the morning, or when you get out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it an effort, initially, to move your legs? If any of these symptoms sound familiar, then you are likely suffering from imbalances and alignment problems in the lower part of your body that, in addition to creating hip pain, can over time lead to degenerative hip joint disease if not addressed.
Even though hip pain and related problems regularly point to age-related degenerative conditions, especially osteoarthritis of the hip joint, osteoarthritis isn’t always the culprit. In fact, rather than being the original source of the problem, osteoarthritis of the hip joint can be the ultimate result of injury to your hips earlier.
Gait changes as the result of biomechanical issues such as an ankle sprain or knee strain, can cause hip pain. Also, if you change jobs, alter the way you sit, take on a new sport or activity, or start driving for long periods of a regular basis, your gait may alter to compensate for these new changes.
In addition, gait asymmetries can occur from carrying a baby or small child on your hip, leg length discrepancies, or foot pronation challenges. Strictly speaking, anything that generates an asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion can develop into painful hip problems.
Along with your adjustments, as part of the chiropractic management of your hip problem your chiropractor may suggest that you wear orthotics. Your chiropractor will also offer suitable progressive rehabilitative exercises that include muscle stretching and strengthening.
Hip pain won’t disappear on its own. hip pain means that something needs to be remedied. Get out of pain, get back in balance, and get your life back now!