Corona Chiropractor Explains How Chiropractic Treatment Can Eliminate Hip Pain
May 21st, 2010 | by admin |When it comes to hip pain relief, your chiropractor in Corona offers highly successful 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, think about the following questions: Does hip pain keep you up in the night and make it impossible for you to get a good night’s sleep? When you get out of bed in the morning, and/or when you step out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it hard at first to move your legs? Do you feel pain in one or both hips when you cross your legs or rotate or twist your hips? 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 lead to osteoarthritis in your hips in the future if not treated. The good news is that whether or not degenerative changes have already begun, chiropractic treatment can help!
You may be getting older and it may be true that your hip joints aren’t what they used to be. But, are you aware that your hip pain and related problems, which normally are thought to be age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be caused by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In many cases, rather than being the root cause of your problem, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is typically the consequence of a prior injury (or injuries) to your hips.
Hip problems frequently have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, as in the case of walking. If you “pronate” when you walk, like a duck, with your toes pointing away from your body, sooner or later you will develop pain in your hips as a result of the asymmetrical stress on your hip joints and your body’s efforts 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.
In addition, 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 alterations produce hip pain. Of course, if not treated, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, i.e, wear and tear that causes degenerative changes.
Other activities that can frequently injure the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that necessitates your moving your body in atypical ways. Also, ferrying a child (or grandchild) on one hip can create hip pain. Even your sitting position or driving for extended periods of time on a regular basis can cause hip injury and pain.
So you can see that not every pain is caused by “old age,” although we may suffer from more pain as a consequence of the progressive capacity of untreated injuries.
In addition to your adjustments, as an integral part of your chiropractic management, your Corona Chiropractor will offer special rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also study your gait and may recommend simple pattern changes.
Your hip pain won’t vanish on its own. Hip pain is a sign that there’s an injury that needs treatment. If left untreated, it is very 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 Corona Chiropractor can eliminate your hip pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!
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