Corona Chiropractor Explains How Chiropractic Care Can Relieve Hip Pain
Where hip pain relief is concerned, your chiropractor in Corona provides valuable non-surgical, drug-free treatment. Whenever possible, surgery should be seen as a final option. Therefore, before you schedule a surgery to replace that hip, consider 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 in the night? When you get out of bed in the morning, and/or when you get out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it initially hard to get your legs moving properly? 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 imbalances 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 chiropractic treatment can help whether or not degenerative changes have already begun!
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 normally signal age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be created by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In the majority of cases, instead of being the original source of your condition, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is typically the outcome of a earlier injury (or injuries) to your hips.
As a general rule, hip problems have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, as when you are walking. If you “pronate” when you walk, with your toes pointing away from your body (like a duck), sooner or later you will experience pain in your hips from the asymmetrical tension 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 help you to do it.
Furthermore, you may have had 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 accommodations produce pain in the hip(s). Of course, if not treated, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, i.e, wear and tear that produces degenerative changes.
Other situations that can occasionally adversely affect the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that necessitates your moving your body in atypical ways. Also, carrying a child (or grandchild) on one hip can generate hip pain. Even your sitting position or driving for prolonged periods of time on a routine 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 as the result of the progressive nature of untreated injuries.
In addition to your adjustments, as an integral part of your chiropractic management, your Corona Chiropractor will provide special 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 go away 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. So, don’t wait until it’s too late. 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!