What’s commonly referred to as the hip consists of multiple bones and joints that can malfunction, causing pain and issues with balance, gait, and movement. The three main bones of the pelvic girdle are the ilium, on both the right and the left side, and the sacrum. The femur, the largest bone in your body, connects to the sacrum, creating the hip socket.
Your hips are susceptible to injury because they’re used in almost every single daily activity. You could experience hip pain in the front of the socket, lateral pain due to IT band syndrome, pain in the back triggered by SI joint dysfunction, or muscle-related pain from the piriformis or glutes.
A misalignment in the hip or other joint dysfunction affects the entire kinetic chain above and below.
ABOVE:
The sacrum is the foundation for the spinal column. It doesn’t matter how straight your house is, if it’s built on an uneven foundation, the entire house, all the way up to the roof, will be uneven and can wear down prematurely. An uneven foundation for your spine results in spinal misalignments, lower back pain, lumbar disc problems, and even scoliosis.
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The pelvis is also critical to your ability to walk and run. Balance issues or abnormal weight distribution on one side of the pelvis causes accelerated knee wear and tear, ankle issues, and plantar fasciitis.
A balanced pelvis is key to maintaining biomechanical balance in the rest of the body. Without balance, you could have anywhere from 30 to 50 pounds of abnormal weight distribution on one side of your body.
Conventional treatment for hip pain is painkillers or cortisone injections to relieve the pain symptoms. All that does is mask the perception of the problem. Pills and injections do nothing to address the root cause of the imbalances, inevitably leading to worsening structural wear and tear, joint degeneration, and arthritis. If damage goes uncorrected for too long, it can lead to hip replacement surgery.
Structural problems require structural solutions. Corrective chiropractic care uses digital imaging to comprehensively address all the joints, connective tissues, muscles, and ligaments involved in hip health. The holistic approach to pelvic biomechanics and everything in the kinetic chain above and below corrects the underlying cause of hip pain to relieve symptoms and prevent further discomfort and dysfunction.
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How We Treat Hip Pain In Missouri City, TX
Comprehensive Consultation and Exam
All care starts with a consultation and health history with a qualified corrective care chiropractor familiar with your condition. They will help identify the exact cause and location of the pain and understand which joints or connective tissue may be involved.
A picture is worth 1000 words, and we may take digital X-rays to measure and identify the exact location of joint dysfunction and any complicating factors we need to address to correct the cause of your hip pain and get an accurate diagnosis.
Any health problem that remains in the body gets worse over time. We don’t ever settle for just treating symptoms. By identifying and correcting the issue’s root cause, we can restore normal health function and structure so that you can get back to living a life without limits.
Digital X-rays
Numerous complicating factors could be involved in your hip pain, from your pelvic bones to your femur to your spine and all the muscles, ligaments, and discs in between. A comprehensive approach is key to correction and long-lasting relief. Imaging gives us the most information to create the most comprehensive, customized approach for you and your situation.
Specific Chiropractic Care in Missouri City, TX
Chiropractors are the only practitioners trained to identify and correct subluxation. Subluxation occurs when the spine or pelvis becomes misaligned or is restricted from going through its full range of motion. It also leads to muscle tension and spasms or muscle groups that are neurologically inhibited or weakened and unable to fire and balance properly.
Subluxations and imbalances wear down the musculoskeletal system, weakening and irritating nerves and affecting the function of everything those nerves control. When structural misalignments are not corrected, they can lead to joint degeneration, disc injuries, and arthritis.
Specific corrective chiropractic adjustments are designed to simultaneously restore normal alignment, motion, and balance to your body.
Custom Therapeutic Exercise Plan
While chiropractic adjustments correct abnormal structures, an exercise plan will help stabilize the correction for more permanent, lasting results.
Your muscles should be equal in length, strength, and tone to create a balanced gait, walking and movement patterns, and weight distribution on the joints. However, the body compensates for hip pain. When these subluxations or biomechanical imbalances remain uncorrected, the body will change its weight distribution and gait, adapting to the misalignments, restricted motion, or pain. Your body was not designed to be imbalanced, and this creates abnormal wear and tear in your joints. Over time, this compensation can spread to other joints and create new problems.
Anytime muscle groups are weakened, neurologically inhibited, or unable to contract and balance, they create instability and wear and tear on other joints. Stiff or spastic muscles create pain. They can interfere with proper range of motion and create abnormal biomechanics. We prescribe custom exercises for each patient based on the results of their examination and the specifics of their hip problem. There is no on-seize-fits-all solution, they are specific to you and what you are experiencing. We target the pelvic floor, glutes and upper thigh, quads, and hamstrings to improve tone and strength and restore balance in your gait and stability in your pelvis.
Common Causes of Hip Pain in Missouri City, TX
Bursitis
Bursa are fluid filled sacs between joints to ease movement. They are found in your shoulders, knees, elbows, and hips to reduce friction in these areas of high traffic. Inflammation or irritation of the bursa is known as bursitis. Poor biomechanics, asymmetrical stress, and misaligned joints from a car accident, sports injury, overuse, or trauma cause abnormal wear and tear that triggers this inflammation. In many cases, bursitis can heal from rest. However, continuous wear and tear can lead to chronic issues. If you hit your thumb with a hammer, it would be swollen and painful. If you left it alone, it would eventually heal, but if you continued hammering it, it never gets the chance to rest and heal.
Bursitis causes stiff, achy, and restricted joints, making movement, exercise, and activity unenjoyable and limiting your ability to participate in the things that make life fun.
One of the largest bursas in the body is around the hips, making bursitis a common cause of hip pain. Chiropractic treatment can include adjustments to restore biomechanical motion, proper alignment, and joint symmetry. We also use soft tissue therapy, or therapeutic exercises and stretches, to relieve muscle tension that contributes to the irritation.
Arthritis
The most common form of arthritis that affects the hip is osteoarthritis. Excessive wear and tear on a joint due to chronic subluxation or fixation preventing full range of motion leads to arthritis. Like a car with unaligned wheels will prematurely wear out one tire, the same pattern can happen in your joints. Arthritis symptoms include stiff, dull, achy joints, especially if the joints haven’t been moving for an extended period.
Arthritis itself isn’t curable, but corrective chiropractic care can dramatically reduce the symptoms and functionality of the joint. It restores full range of motion to the joint and allows it to self-lubricate. Corrective chiropractic care can relieve joint pain, improve range of motion, and restore balance to stop abnormal wear and tear, slowing and sometimes stopping the progression of arthritis.
Muscle or Tendon Strain
Muscles and tendons can strain due to injury, overuse, or repetitive action. It can feel like a deep, painful achiness in the belly of the muscle or tendon. The best way to prevent a strain is to make sure that you use proper lifting techniques and are adequately warmed up before exercises to get your blood flowing. Circulation will soften the tissue, allowing it to be more flexible during activity. Regular stretching maintains the proper length and flexibility of the muscles so they’re not more likely to become knotted up or tear.
Chiropractic uses a comprehensive treatment approach, considering all the biomechanical factors that might affect the joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones.
Hip Labral Tear
Where your femur connects to your pelvis makes the hip socket. It’s a ball and socket joint with a ring of thick cartilage connective tissue that keeps everything in place. A traumatic injury, repetitive action, or accumulated stress can compromise the alignment and mobility of the pelvis. If your pelvis has a misaligned ball and socket joint or limited mobility due to fixated joints, the excessive load on the cartilage can result in a tear of the connective tissue.
Tendinitis
Tendons connect muscle to bone, allowing joints to move. Inflammation of tendons is tendonitis, a deep ache of the tendon, making it very tender to the touch. People with a sedentary lifestyle, previous injuries, or who are very active are most at risk for tendonitis. The repetitive action creates chronic stress on the tissue, causing inflammation. Besides being painful, tendonitis limits your movement and ability to perform daily tasks.
Chiropractic treatment restores balance and proper biomechanics to the joints connected with the inflamed tendon. This relieves muscle tension and pain, allowing for a full range of motion throughout the joint and helping prevent future recurrences.
Avascular Necrosis
Avascular necrosis is a lack of blood supply to the tip of the femoral head, the ball that connects to the pelvis to form your hip.
Avascular – not enough blood supply
Necrosis – tissue death
It is similar to having a tight rubber band around the tip of your finger. At first, your fingertip would go numb and tingle, but eventually, the lack of blood supply, oxygen, and nutrients could start to kill the tissue.
Avascular necrosis can be caused by traumas, injuries, and side effects of medications or corticosteroid injections, which can damage the blood vessels. Poor lifestyle, alcohol, smoking, and even radiation therapy used in cancer treatments can also cause avascular necrosis. The symptoms can be very painful, such as a deep generalized achy or sharper stabbing pain in your hip that makes it hard to walk and enjoy your normal daily activities.
Chiropractic can help alleviate the pain and symptoms of avascular necrosis, improve joint functionality and mobility, and hopefully restore motion and blood supply. It can also slow the progression of avascular necrosis and sometimes even stop it.
Sciatica
The sciatic nerve is the largest in the human body, formed from nerve roots that branch from the lower lumbar spine through the tailbone, buttocks, glutes, and down the legs. This nerve feeds energy all the way down your leg. Sciatica is when the sciatic nerve is compressed or irritated – by joint dysfunction, muscle tension, or disc injury. Symptoms include pain, muscle weakness, numbness and tingling, cramping, and muscle atrophy.
Corrective chiropractic is the best, most successful solution for relieving sciatica because it considers every possible cause. Our examination process pinpoints where the nerve is pinched, compressed, stretched, or irritated and evaluates whether the issue is joint, muscle, or disc-related. Armed with this information, we create a comprehensive approach customized to your specific situation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Should I go to a chiropractor for hip pain?
Corrective chiropractic care is the most noninvasive approach to managing hip pain. We have a very high success rate at naturally correcting the underlying root cause of hip pain.
What happens when the hips are out of alignment?
The hips are the foundation of the spine. When out of alignment, they can create abnormal wear and tear on the hip, knee, or ankle. They can also cause sciatic nerve compression or other nerves that exit the lumbar spine and pelvis. Most significantly, they can cause spinal curvatures or distortions, like a sinking house, increasing the speed of wear and tear and joint degeneration.
What is the fastest way to relieve hip pain?
The fastest way to relieve hip pain is to consult a corrective chiropractor trained to identify and pinpoint the exact location and cause of your specific hip pain. They’ll create a comprehensive approach to address whatever the cause.
How can I realign my hips at home?
The best thing to do is consult with a trained corrective care chiropractor to pinpoint the exact root cause of the problem and design a customized approach for your specific situation.
How does a chiropractor help with hip pain?
We will create a customized treatment plan using specific, gentle chiropractic adjustments to balance the pelvic bones, sacrum, or hips. We’ll also use therapeutic exercises and stretches to strengthen, stabilize, and improve the mobility of surrounding muscles and tissues.
What can a chiropractor in Missouri City, TX, do to help with osteoarthritis?
While arthritis can’t be cured, chiropractic care slows and, in some instances, stops the progression of arthritis by restoring joint alignment and motion. This prevents natural wear and tear and keeps joints fully lubricated.
How do I know if my hip pain is serious?
If you have ongoing hip pain that’s not resolving, consult a corrective care chiropractor. They can help you pinpoint the exact cause, location, and severity of your specific problem and instruct you on the proper steps to address it.
Why do my hips ache after sleeping?
If you’re getting lateral hip pain after sleeping on your side, many times, it’s due to a misaligned or restricted pelvic joint. It can also be due to abnormal wear and tear on the hip bursa. It can cause knots or spastic irritation of the IT band or any of the surrounding connected tissue.
Can uneven hips be fixed?
Yes. Corrective care chiropractors are experts at evaluating the biomechanical alignment of the spine and pelvis to restore normal motion and alignment in a natural, safe, non-invasive way.
How do you sleep with hip alignment?
It’s all about symmetry. You don’t want asymmetrical or excessive twisting or rotation as you’re lying on your side with one leg twisting too far. It may be beneficial to sleep on your side with a pillow between your knees. This takes stress off the hip but maintains symmetrical alignment. Sleeping on your back may also help reduce hip pain.
What does a worn hip joint feel like?
Anytime there’s abnormal wear and tear on a joint, it can feel like a stiff, deep, dull achiness to a sharp, stabbing, or, in severe cases, even burning pain.
What does hip flexor pain feel like?
Hip flexor pain can feel like a sharp stabbing pain at the front of the pelvis, close to the groin.
How do I loosen my hip flexors?
A corrective chiropractor may prescribe numerous hip flexor exercises. An evaluation will pinpoint your unique needs. From the evaluation results, we’ll create a customized therapeutic exercise and stretching routine unique to your situation.
$49 New Patient Special
Includes Comprehensive Consultation, Complete Physical Examination, All Necessary Digital X-rays, Report of Findings.
