When your daily routine is altered due to a hip injury, re-injury, surgery, accident or chronic condition, an OSI physical therapist can help you get you back to feeling your best! There are many injuries commonly associated with the elbow. Below are some common injuries associated with hip pain:
- Hip Impingement
- SI Joint Pain
- IT Band Syndrome
- Trochanteric Bursitis
- Piriformis Syndrome
- Labral Injuries
- Glute Tendinopathies
- Joint Replacements
To treat hip pain, physical therapists prescribe customized stretches and strengthening exercises to better balance the muscles around the hip to protect it, and use manual therapies to help restore range of motion and increase comfort.
How is Hip Pain Diagnosed?
How Can a Physical Therapist Help?
When a person develops hip pain, but does not have severe symptoms or joint damage, the recommended treatment is physical therapy. The following interventions can help decrease pain, improve movement, and avoid the progression of hip pain and the need for surgery:
- Improving the strength of your hips and trunk. Strengthening of the hips and trunk can reduce abnormal forces on the already injured joint and help with strategies to compensate.
- Improving hip muscle flexibility and joint mobility. Stretching tight muscles can reduce abnormal forces that cause pain with motion. Joint mobilization may help ease pain from the hip joint; however, these treatments do not always help range of motion, especially if the shape of the bone at the hip joint has changed.
- Improving tolerance of daily activities. Your physical therapist can consider your job and recreational activities and offer advice regarding maintaining postures that are healthier for your hip and activity modification.
Ready To Start Your Recovery Journey?
Don't let pain hold you back. Our physical therapy team is here to help you get back to the activities you love.