Corona Chiropractor

Your Corona Chiropractor offers a highly successful non-invasive, 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. So, before you decide on hip surgery, consider the following questions: Is it impossible for you to get a good night’s sleep because your hip pain wakes you up at 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 adequately? 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 misalignments in your lower extremities that, in addition to causing your hip pain, can eventually lead to osteoarthritis in your hips if not treated. The good news is that whether or not degenerative changes have already begun, 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. But, are you aware that your hip pain (and related problems), which usually are thought to be age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be produced by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In many cases, rather than being the root cause of your pain, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is often the result of a past injury (or injuries) to your hips.

More often than not, hip problems have to do with asymmetry or imbalance when you are in motion, as when you are walking. If you tend to walk “pronated” with your toes pointing away from your body (like a duck), sooner or later you will feel pain in your hips due to the asymmetrical stress on your hip joints as your body attempts to compensate. However, you can learn to alter your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can help you to do it.

In addition, you may have had gait changes as the result of an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical accommodations generate pain in the hip(s). There is no doubt that, if not corrected, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, i.e, wear and tear that leads to degenerative changes.

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

See? Not every pain is caused by “old age,” although we may start to feel 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 suggest individualized 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 is a symptom telling you that there’s a problem that requires correcting. If put off, it is very likely that you will eventually require that hip replacement surgery. So, don’t put off until tomorrow, what truly needs to be done today. 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!

Technorati Tags: chiropractic, chiropractor, hip pain, osteoarthritis