If you like to take anti-inflammatory medications or cortisone injection for hip pain and groin pain, then the following information is not for you. And besides, if your hip pain and groin pain are getting better, you wouldn’t be googling about hip pain and groin pain. So I’m going to satisfy your hunger for knowledge with some information on hip and groin pains.
You’re active. You exercise. You’re not lazy like your neighbours who sit on their asses, eating Twinkies and watching Judge Judy. So when hip pain and groin pain strike, I bet you were surprised as Bill Clinton with his pants up.
Hip pain and groin pain are common among women. And the two most common causes of hip and groin pains are sacroiliac joint dysfunctions and repetitive, micro-trauma injuries. Prolonged sitting, lack of exercises, repetitive injuries and athletic activities or improper exercises can over stress and strain hip and groin muscles and the sacroiliac joints. Over time, this can lead to myofascial hip and groin pains, trigger points and hip and groin muscle imbalances. Some muscles become weak, while others are tight and overactive. Biomechanics of the sacroiliac joints and movement patterns of the hip joints are also changed--causing degenerative wear-and-tear of hip joint arthritis, hip pain and groin pain.
Even though you’re not a kid, I must briefly mention about hip pain and groin pain in children. Children complaining about hip pain or groin pain must be checked out thoroughly. Some clinicians may brush them off as hip tendonitis or bursitis. But slipped capital femoral epiphysis and Legg-Calve-Perthes disease must be ruled out.
Although not as common as myofascial hip and groin pains, hip arthritis or sacroiliac joint dysfunction, femoral mononeuropathy can also cause hip pain and groin pain. It may start as innocent pain in the groin. But left untreated, femoral mononeuropathy can lead to hip pain and weakness of the thigh muscles.
Burning hip pain with numbness or tingling to the front of the thigh is often associated with compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve causing meralgia paresthetica.
With your curiosity about hip and groin pains satisfied, it’s time for you to take some action baby! You have better things to do than to be bogged down by hip pain and groin pain.
Hip pain and groin pain can be frustrating to treat with traditional approaches of anti-inflammatory medications, ultrasound, muscle stimulation (TENS) and strengthening exercises until now.
Treating hip and groin pains
Treatment of hip and groin pains should begin with conservative care before cortisone injection and surgery. Unless the pains are from a labral tear, inguinal hernia or femoral fracture, in which case, surgery is needed; otherwise, chiropractic treatments are tremendously effective in treating common hip and groin pains including hip arthritis.
Before treating any hip and groin complaints, I like to find out what causes the pain, weakness, stiffness or clicking and where is the problem. Hip and groin pains are fairly easy to treat with contemporary chiropractic care.
I help provide health freedom to people living with hip and groin pains including hip arthritis. I help them stay healthy and active from hip and groin pains with chiropractic adjustments, soft tissue treatments, specific rehab exercises and ergonomics best suited for their needs and comfort levels. If you’re ready to be healthy and feel good again, please call 604-782-2029 for your hip pain or groin pain consultation.
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