Hip Pain
What is Hip Pain?
Hips are a common source of pain, and can stop you from enjoying normal everyday activities like walking or getting up out of a chair. Hip pain can range from occasional discomfort, catching or weakness, to constant deep aching or sharp pain.
It often involves swelling and heat in the joint and can interfere with your sleep. Hip pain can be caused by acute trauma, or chronic microtrauma from weak muscle control or poor foot or knee biomechanics.
What are the risk factors?
Genetic predispositions
Infection
Excessive loading from sports such as running, soccer or netball.
Sports injuries.
Excessive weight
Previous lower back, knee or ankle injuries
Arthritis
Heavy manual work.
How can Keystone help?
At Keystone Chiropractic & Yoga, our chiropractors take a holistic approach to Hip Pain, we assess the whole body to look for the underlying issues rather than just treating symptoms.
There are many causes of Hip Pain and an accurate diagnosis is important to make sure your treatment assesses these underlying issues. Your initial appointment will include a review of what has lead up to your Hip Pain and a physical examination to assess both the underlying problem and the compensatory stresses and strains this has caused.
For any treatment to be effective both the cause and compensatory issues need to be addressed. We will work with you to provide a personalised treatment plan to help you get back to doing all the things you love as quickly as possible.
Your treatment will be aimed to restore balance and mobility to your body. It will include a combination of soft tissue releases and mobilisations, chiropractic adjustments (where appropriate), and exercises and stretches to correct postural imbalances and help prevent future episodes of Hip Pain.
We also have yoga and tai chi classes to improve flexibility and fitness in the long term.
Need more help?
We have stretches and exercises on this page which you can try. Remember to keep everything in a pain free range.
If you have any questions or concerns please call us on (02) 98682260, or email us reception@keychiro.com.au. We are always happy to help!
If you need personalised help we can organise a complimentary phone consultation with one of our Chiropractors. They will be able to advise you on whether Chiropractic treatment will help your condition, or recommend the right person to help. Please contact us to schedule a call.
You can make an online booking at www.keychiro.com.au/booking