Corona Chiropractor Explains How Chiropractic Management Can Relieve Hip Pain

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Where hip pain relief is concerned, your chiropractor in Corona offers potent non-surgical, drug-free treatment. As most of us know, surgery should be a last resort whenever possible. So, before you decide on hip surgery, think about 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 arise in the morning, and/or when you get out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it hard at first to move your legs? Do you feel pain whenever you rotate or twist them or when you cross your legs? If so, you may have imbalances and misalignments in your lower extremities that are not only causing your hip pain, but can lead to degenerative joint disease in your hips in the future if not treated. The good news is that chiropractic treatment can help whether or not degenerative changes have already taken place!

You may be getting older and it may be true that your hip joints aren’t what they used to be. Nonetheless, did you know that your hip pain and related problems, which usually are thought to be age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be produced by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In fact, as opposed to being the original source of your pain, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is more often than not the result of a previous injury (or injuries) to your hips.

More often than not, hip problems have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, like walking for instance. If you tend to walk “pronated” with your toes pointing away from your body (like a duck), sooner or later you will experience pain in your hips as a result of the asymmetrical tension on your hip joints as your body attempts to compensate. Thankfully, you can learn to alter your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can show you how to do it.

Moreover, you may have undergone gait changes due to an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical accommodations generate pain in the hip(s). Naturally, if not corrected, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, like wear and tear that produces degenerative changes.

Other situations that can occasionally injure 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 produce hip pain. Even your sitting position or driving for long periods of time on a routine basis can cause hip injury and pain.

See? Not every pain is caused by “old age,” although we may suffer from more pain as the result of 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 provide appropriate rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also evaluate your gait and may recommend simple pattern changes.

Your hip pain won’t vanish by itself. Hip pain is a sign that there’s a condition that needs correcting. If left untreated, more than likely that you will eventually require that hip replacement surgery. Remember the old adage, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Your chiropractor in Corona can relieve your hip pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!