Chronic Hip Pain

Dealing with Chronic Hip Pain

Chronic hip pain can be extremely frustrating due to the limitations it brings on. Previously simple tasks such as walking, running, hiking, biking, skiing, or simply bending over to pickup a child or grandchild can become difficult and sometimes unbearable.

At first you might think you just pulled a muscle or worked out too hard. So you give it time to heal, but the pain just wont go away. You may try things like chiropractic adjustments, massage, medication, and physical therapy only to find you get temporary relief at best. Sometimes surgery is even performed just to leave you with some form of lasting pain even months to years later. These are typical scenarios we hear from our patients here at Brain and Body Chiropractic.

So why are you still in pain?

As mentioned on our PAIN RESET page, most injured tissues tend to heal within 3 months. Pain is typically experienced from an injury but then goes away as the injury heals like it should. However, sometimes during this time your nerves become hypersensitive to pain. Simply put, they become very good at sending pain signals. In this case, even though your injury has healed, your nerve will continue to send pain signals for little or sometimes no reason. This nerve hypersensitivity results in chronic pain. 

ACUTE PAIN
(Recent Injury)

CHRONIC PAIN
(Healed Injury)

Why hasn’t other treatments fixed the problem?

Your pain is treated from where your doctor or therapist feels its coming from. This is often either a joint or soft tissue such as muscles, ligaments, or tendons. Hip pain = treat the hip joint/muscles/ligaments/tendons. Knee pain = treat the knee joint/muscles/ligaments/tendons. And so on. However, if your pain is coming from a hypersensitive nerve than the nerve itself is where the focus and treatment needs to be. Unfortunately, these types of noninvasive nerve focused treatments are not very common.

Fortunately, we do this very well here at Brain and Body Chiropractic.

Take a look at the pictures below. Do you have pain in the areas highlighted? Can you relate to any of the symptoms listed?

If so, you are a good candidate for the therapy we offer.

Pain with hip flexion
Pain with getting in/out of car
Pain with going up/down stairs
Pain with lifting leg to perform tasks like putting socks on or shaving legs

Pain with pressure on hip
Pain with sleeping on side
Numbness/Tingling/Burning

Ongoing achiness across low back
Pain with rolling over in bed
Stiffness
Sudden pain with sit to stand or stand to sit movements