Corona Chiropractor

Your Corona Chiropractor offers a highly successful non-invasive, drug-free approach to decreasing hip pain and often eliminating it altogether. As most of us know, surgery should be a last resort whenever possible. Therefore, before you schedule a surgery to replace that hip, think about the following questions: Does hip pain keep you up in the night and make it impossible for you to get a good night’s sleep? When you get up 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 properly? Do you feel pain in one or both hips when you cross your legs or rotate or twist your hips? If so, you may have imbalances and alignment problems in your lower extremities that, in addition to causing your hip pain, can lead to osteoarthritis in your hips in the future if not treated. The good news is that whether or not degenerative changes have already started, chiropractic treatment can help!

You may be getting older and it may be true that your hip joints aren’t what they used to be. But, are you aware that your hip pain and related problems, which are thought to be age-related degenerative conditions, may not actually be produced by osteoarthritis? That’s right. In fact, rather than being the original source of your condition, osteoarthritis of the hip joint is typically the result of a earlier 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 “pronate” when you walk, like a duck, with your toes pointing away from your body, sooner or later you will develop pain in your hips as a result of the asymmetrical pressure on your hip joints and your body’s efforts to compensate. Fortunately, you can make changes in your gait pattern at any age, and your chiropractor in Corona can help you to do it.

Furthermore, you may have undergone gait changes due to an ankle sprain or knee strain, and since “the knee bone’s connected to the hip bone,” these biomechanical alterations cause pain in the hip(s). Of course, if not corrected, your hip joints will suffer further consequences, i.e, wear and tear that creates 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 uncommon ways. Also, carrying a child (or grandchild) on one hip can cause hip pain. Even your sitting position or driving for prolonged periods of time on a regular basis can cause hip injury and pain.

See? Not every pain is caused by “old age,” even though we may start to feel more pain as a consequence of the progressive nature of untreated injuries.

Your chiropractor in Corona will treat our hip problem directly, and as part of your chiropractic management will offer individualized rehabilitative exercises that include gentle muscle stretching and strengthening, and will also evaluate your gait and may recommend simple pattern changes.

Your hip pain won’t vanish on its own. Hip pain is a signal that something needs correcting. If neglected, more than 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!

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