Mount Laurel Chiropractor: Stop Suffering From Hip Pain Now!
Do you feel pain in one or both hips whenever you rotate them or when you cross your legs? Does the pain wake you up in the night and make it impossible to get a good night’s sleep? When you get out of bed in the morning, or when you get out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it hard, at first, to move your legs? If so you may have imbalances and alignment problems in the lower part of your body that, in addition to causing hip pain, can in the course of time lead to degenerative joint disease in your hips if not treated.
Even though hip pain and related problems can generally be traced to age-related degenerative conditions, particularly osteoarthritis of the hip joint, osteoarthritis isn’t always the “bad guy”. In fact, rather than being the original cause of the problem, osteoarthritis of the hip joint can be the eventual result of injury to your hips at a previous time.
Damage as the result of biomechanical problems, such as an ankle sprain or knee strain, can produce changes in your gait that create hip pain. Furthermore, your gait may vary to compensate for new activities such as a job change, an alteration in the way you sit, a new sport or activity, or if you start driving for long periods of time on a regular basis..
In addition, gait asymmetries can occur from carrying a baby or small child on your hip, leg length dissimilarities, or foot pronation conditions. The point is, anything that produces an asymmetry or imbalance when you are moving can bring about painful hip problems.
As part of the chiropractic management of your hip problem, along with adjustments, 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 diminish on its own. Hip pain indicates that something needs to be remedied. Your chiropractor can help to get you out of pain, get back into balance, and get your life back!
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