April 2010

Corona Chiropractor

Your Corona Chiropractor provides a potent non-surgical, drug-free approach to easing hip pain and frequently eliminating it altogether. As most of us know, surgery should be a last resort whenever possible. Therefore, before you schedule a surgery to replace that hip, consider the following questions: Is it impossible 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 step out of your car, are you stiff and do you find it difficult at first to get your legs moving properly? Do you feel pain in one or both hips when you cross your legs or rotate or twist your hips? If these symptoms sound familiar, it is likely that you have asymmetries and alignment problems in your lower extremities that, in addition to causing your hip pain, can eventually lead to degenerative joint disease in your hips if not treated. The good news is that whether or not degenerative changes have already started, chiropractic treatment can help!

It may be true that you’re getting older and your hip joints just aren’t what they used to be. Nonetheless, are you aware that your hip pain and related problems, which are thought to be age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be produced by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In fact, rather than being the root cause of your problem, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is typically the outcome of a previous injury (or injuries) to your hips.

Hip problems oftentimes have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, like walking for instance. If you “pronate” when you walk, with your toes pointing away from your body (like a duck), eventually you will feel pain in your hips from the asymmetrical pressure on your hip joints as your body attempts to compensate. Thankfully, you can make changes in your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can show you how to do it.

Additionally, you may have developed gait changes because of an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical accommodations generate hip pain. Naturally, if not treated, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, namely, the wear and tear that produces degenerative changes.

Other activities that can sometimes injure the hip joints are starting a new job or beginning a new sport that requires you to move your body in atypical ways. Also, transporting a child (or grandchild) on one hip can generate hip pain. Even the way you sit or driving for extended periods of time on a routine basis can cause hip injury and pain.

So you can see that not every pain is caused by “old age,” although we may experience more pain due to the progressive nature of untreated injuries.

Your chiropractor in Corona will treat our hip problem directly, and as part of your chiropractic management will provide appropriate rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also study your gait and may offer simple pattern changes.

Your hip pain won’t vanish by itself. Hip pain means that there’s an injury that needs treatment. If left untreated, there is a good possibility 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 relieve your hip pain, get your body back into balance, and help you get to back to enjoying your life again!

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