Oakville Hip Pain Treatment

Our Oakville Chiropractic clinic has been treating hip pain or hip related injuries for over 15 years. Everyday it seems like Dr. Steve is getting a new hip injury at the clinic. From osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis to tight hip flexors and greater trochanteric bursitis Dr. Steve treats it all.

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What is Hip Pain?

Hip pain is a discomfort, tingling or nerve pain within the hip or low back. The tightness of the muscles can cause tenderness, stiffness or just an annoyance in every day activities. This pain can also be felt when you just wake up in the morning feeling stiff and your first step in the day may be a bit more of a limp. This is because your hip flexors attach from your leg to your hip and into your low back, causing the pain to be felt everywhere.

The hip pain could be more of a tightness or located on the front, back or side of the hip.

 

What Causes Hip Pain?

Hip pain can be caused by many reasons but it is most likely caused by sitting at your desk for long periods of time. This prolonged seated position causes your hip flexors or psoas muscle to become tight and stiff leading to the pain you may be feeling. This could also be due to a chronic hip injury or a short term strain that just isn’t going away. In some patients their hip pain is coming from their SI Joint.

What Services Treat Hip Pain?

Here at our Oakville Chiropractic and Physiotherapy clinic we treat hip pain in many ways. These treatment services are:

Inferential Current (IFC) Therapy:

IFC is an electric stimulation device that suctions onto your body. They activate and deactivate your muscles which may cause your muscles to shift or “jump”, but apart from the constant buzzing it increases blood flow to the area promoting healing. Dr. Steve uses IFC combined with moist heat to prep the area for shockwave treatment.

Shockwave Therapy for Hip Pain:

Shockwave is an air powered “gun” that breaks apart scar tissue and muscle swelling. This part of treatment may be a little more painful but only lasts 2-3 minutes, and is worth ever second. Patients tend to love the pain because it gets deeper than any massage and breaks apart tight and painful areas, allowing you immediately looser and have improved hip range of motion.

Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Release:

Dr. Steve calls this scraping in our clinic. Scraping is done by one of the many tools we have where Our Chiropractors will “scrape” the affected areas to help breakdown scar tissue and inflammation, which will promote further healing and range of motion. This treatment may not feel the best, but like the Shockwave it is also immediate satisfaction. Dr. Steve will always recommend you ice the area after a scraping session!

Spinal manipulation for hip pain:

Also commonly known as an adjustment, this form of treatment causes your joints to release (making that crack or popping noise). This form of release with help relax your muscles surrounding the joint and reduce pressure, helping to alleviate pain and tightness. In almost all hip flexor treatment Dr. Steve will adjust the patients low back. The hip muscles attach to the front portion of your low back and pelvis and can be the root cause of pain and things like an SI joint dysfunction. 

 

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Are you experiencing hip pain or discomfort ? If you would like to seek professional help please contact our chiropractic clinic directly at 905-827-4197

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Learn more about how our Oakville Chiropractic Team can help you with your hip pain and treatment for psoas injuries and Anterior Pelvic Tilt.