Best Hip Pain Relief Exercises For You
How can you reduce hip pain? Improving flexibility and gaining more strength are just two ways of lessening hip pain. When the muscles around the hip are strengthened then it aids in supporting the joints and it puts less stress in the hips, too.
Increasing and improving flexibility can lessen the pain because when you are less flexible you experience pain and less movement resulting to stiffness and more pain. That is why most doctors or physical therapist recommend a good exercise program for their patient but before that they have to evaluate their patient and make a routine that fits its specific condition. So here are the best hip pain relief exercises .
Home exercises.
These exercises can be done everyday at home. This exercise is created to be relaxing and not taxing.
• With your back on the floor, bent your knees and feet flat on the floor. Squeeze your gluteal muscles through tightening the cheeks of your buttocks. Keep this position for five seconds and then go back to original position. Try to do it 30 times.
• With your back on the floor, bent your knees and feet flat on the floor. Tighten your buttock’s muscle and lift your hips off the ground and then hold this position for about five seconds and release and make sure that you breathe while doing it. Try to repeat it 30 times.
• With your back flat on the floor, bent your knees and feet flat on the floor. Lift your hips off the floor by tightening your buttocks. Also lift one foot a few inches from the floor by tightening your stomach muscles and slowly put it down and then do it with the other foot. Breathe while you do the exercise. Try to do it 30 times.
Aside from exercise, other alternative treatment includes various physical therapies, acupuncture, chiropractic and even spinal decompression and massage therapy. One thing important though, always consults your doctor first before undergoing any kind of treatment or even any type of exercise.
Network Chiropractic Heals More Than Back Pain
If you have been in some sort of pain, back pain or otherwise, you owe it to yourself to look into other avenues of healing. If you’ve only tried the conventional methods of medicines or physical therapy with none of the results you have hoped for, then you’re ripe for a new method or approach. Many people have some awareness or basic understanding of the concepts of chiropractic. However, there are some points that are often not made or that many are not aware of. Hopefully, you’ll find this article a bit more informative and detailed about what chiropractic is really all about.
As a brief history lesson, know that chiropractic dates back to 1895, a pioneering time in our country’s lifespan. This was a time of healing exploration as well. Daniel David Palmer, the father of chiropractic, first introduced this ‘practiced by hand’ or ‘by hand only’ (what chiropractic means in Latin) approach as a way of freeing up the interference in the body’s ability to send its messages effectively through the nervous system of body. When there is distortion, tension or compression of the spinal cord or nerves, the body is unable to effectively send and relay messages between the brain and body. This causes not only pain, but also more long-term health consequences.
We are far from understanding exactly how stress that the body cannot effectively adapt to and heal from causes disease. This will likely be the next frontier of health and well being. In this model, we will not look to the specific part of the body or symptomatic picture alone to introduce some form of therapy in an attempt to ‘fix’ that part. Quite the opposite may be true. We may look to the body’s inability to effectively adapt to that stressor and introduce an approach or application that actually helps the body – by way of the nervous system – to adapt more effectively and unwind the offending stress and tension before it becomes an ache, pain or dis-ease symptom.
Fibromyalgia is just one disorder that has the most current pharmaceutical companies chomping at the bit. This disorder is classically very hard to treat with the conventional Western medical approaches. However, some techniques and approaches that do what some of these more progressive approaches allude to; like Network Chiropractic and acupuncture have shown promise in many people suffering with this condition. It’s a bit ironic, actually. Acupuncture has a few thousand year history before our system was even developed, yet we seem to need more ‘research’ for it, while our (maybe) 150 year old system is taken as the gold standard.
So, to take this discussion full circle again, we need to remind ourselves what our back pain or aches are really all about. There may be any number of reasons in our life why we are feeling the way we are. Often times, emotional and mental stress will cause physiologic changes in our body that need to be addressed if we wish to experience any lasting relief. Network chiropractic is showing promise as just one such method.
Michael J. Funicello, DC is a Gilbert chiropractor in private practice since 1998. He has personally helped people, just like you, living with a variety of health conditions and pains regain their health and quality of life.