Chiropractic Costa Mesa can help you to eliminate your hip pain. Here’s what you need to know: Does hip pain keep you up at night and make it hard to get a good night’s rest? When you get up 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? Do you experience pain in one or both hips whenever you rotate or twist them or when you cross your legs? If you answered in the affirmative to any or all of the previous questions it is likely that you have imbalances and alignment problems in the lower part of your body that, in addition to causing hip pain, can eventually bring about degenerative hip joint disease if not taken care of.
Even though hip pain and related problems are ordinarily signs of age-related degenerative conditions, especially osteoarthritis of the hip joint, osteoarthritis isn’t always the “bad guy”. In fact, instead of causing the original problem, osteoarthritis of the hip joint can be the ultimate result of damage to your hips earlier.
Injury due to biomechanical problems, such as an ankle sprain or knee strain, can produce changes in your gait that create hip pain. Furthermore, your gait may shift to counterbalance 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 imbalances can be caused by leg length discrepancies, foot pronation challenges, even carrying a baby or small child on your hip. In other words, anything that generates an asymmetry or imbalance when you are moving can develop into painful hip problems.
As part of the chiropractic management of your hip problem, along with adjustments, your chiropractor may prescribe orthotics. Your chiropractor will also offer appropriate 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 corrected. Your chiropractor can help to get you out of pain, get back into balance, and get your life back!