Hip pain, pain from the hip can be felt in the groin, buttock, side of the hip and even be felt radiating down the thigh to the knee. Osteoarthritis (degeneration of the joint cartilage surfaces) is common.
Other causes of hip pain include (i) Acetabular labral tears-CAM impingement / Pincer impingement (ii) Femoral acetabular impingment (iii) Loose bodies (iv) Synovial chondramatosis (v) Gluteus medius tendinitis/tears/enthesopathy (vi) Trachanteric bursitis (vii) Piriformis syndrome (viii) Tendon snapping syndromes (ix) Synovitis
(x) Ligamentum teres tears
Hip pain, recently I was fortunate to attend a seminar presented by Dr John O’Donnell Orthopaedic surgeon specialising in hip arthroscopies. He is one of the early pioneers in this field and is one of a handful of high volume hip arthroscopists in the world having performed over 4000 hip arthroscopies. Pain from the hip can be felt from the groin, buttock, side of the hip and even be felt radiating down the thigh to the knee. Osteoarthritis (degeneration of the joint cartilage surfaces) is common.
Sports, hobbies, and recreation which may lead to acute or chronic dysfunction and pain syndromes. In addition the effects of ageing, or of a lifetime of micro trauma and macro trauma injuries leading to degeneration immobilization and pain.
Treatment of hip pain: It is the subluxation that we as Chiropractors, find and restore to normal alignment and hence function.What we do with the Activator Adjusting Instrument is adjust these subluxations, in doing so we initiate passive joint movement , which results in stimulating movement as well as the nerves that sense movement, this stops the nerves that are responsible for pain from being active, and hence abolish or diminish pain. Creation of normal joint structure and function through Chiropractic adjustments may cause the nerves responsible for sensing normal joint movement, and those nerves responsible for sensing pain to work appropriately, meaning that when the joints are working properly then the pain fibre nerves remain dormant, only when there is joint damage or dysfunction are the pain fibres to operate.
