What is the Best Way to Relieve Hip Pain?
A thorough analysis of WHY you suffer hip pain from a movement, posture, or a control aspect, is vital to solving your hip pain.
Only an accurate diagnosis of the source of your hip pain can solve the pain, quickly improve your day-to-day function, prevent a future recurrence, or improve your athletic performance.
The first choice of short-term therapy has been symptomatic hip treatment. This approach could include local chemical modalities such as cortisone injections or painkillers. Ice or heat could also assist with some gentle stretching or exercise.
However, persisting hip problems will require additional investigations to assess your joint integrity or range of motion, muscle length, strength, endurance, power, contraction timing and dynamic stability control.
You should consult a healthcare practitioner interested in hip pain and injury management to thoroughly assess your hip, groin, pelvis, lower limb and spine. Due to the kinetic chain, they all impact, especially at the high athletic performance end. A quality practitioner will educate you on your condition and combine it with exercise and manual therapy per the Clinical Practice Guidelines. (Cibulka et al., 2017) Hip pain education should include specific activity modification, individualised exercises, weight-loss advice (if required), and methods to unload any arthritic joints.
Recent research evidence-backed approaches have modernised physiotherapy treatment approaches to manage hip pain effectively. With a thorough hip assessment, your hip treatment can progress quickly to restore you to a pain-free hip and perform your regular sport or daily activities in the shortest time possible.
For specific rehabilitation advice regarding your hip pain, seek the professional advice of high-quality and up-to-date physiotherapists experienced in assessing, treating, preventing, and optimising hip pain and related conditions. After evaluating you, they will individually prescribe therapeutic activities based on your needs for daily living, values, and functional activities or point you toward the most suitable healthcare practitioner for you and your hip condition.
Hip Pain Treatment Options
Your hip physiotherapist may consider an extensive range of treatment options, including manual joint therapy to improve your joint mobility, muscle stretches or supportive taping. Your physiotherapist will also likely add strengthening and hip joint control exercises as they deem appropriate for your specific functional and sporting needs. Please consult with them for advice.
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