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Corona Chiropractor Explains How Chiropractic Management Can Eliminate Hip Pain
Where hip pain relief is concerned, your chiropractor in Corona provides potent non-invasive, drug-free treatment. As most of us know, surgery should be a last resort whenever possible. Therefore, before you schedule a surgery to replace that hip, ask yourself the following questions: Does hip pain wake you up at night and make it impossible for you to get a good night’s sleep? When you get up in the morning, and/or when you get out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it hard at first to get your legs moving properly? Do you feel pain whenever you rotate or twist them or when you cross your legs? If so, you may have asymmetries and alignment problems in your lower extremities that are not only causing your hip pain, but can over time lead to osteoarthritis in your hips if not treated. The good news is that whether or not degenerative changes have already taken place, 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. Nonetheless, did you know that your hip pain (and related problems), which routinely are thought to be age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be created by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In the majority of cases, rather than being the original source of your condition, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is more often than not the outgrowth of a earlier 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 example. If you tend to walk “pronated” with your toes pointing away from your body (like a duck), it is inevitable that you will feel pain in your hips as a result of the asymmetrical stress 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 help you to do it.
In addition, 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 create pain in the hip(s). There is no doubt that, if not treated, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, like wear and tear that produces degenerative changes.
Other activities that can frequently adversely affect the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that makes it necessary for you to move your body in atypical ways. Also, carrying a child (or grandchild) on one hip can create hip pain. Even your sitting position or driving for prolonged periods of time on a routine basis can cause hip injury and pain.
See? Not every pain is caused by “old age,” though we may start to feel more pain as a consequence of the progressive activity of untreated injuries.
In addition to your adjustments, as an integral part of your chiropractic management, your Corona Chiropractor will recommend appropriate rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also analyze your gait and may recommend simple pattern changes.
Your hip pain won’t go away on its own. Hip pain means that there’s an injury that needs treatment. If neglected, 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 chiropractor in Corona can eliminate your hip pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!