Hip Pain / Injury
Do you suffer from hip pain / injury? Mike Gibbons, LMT, has massage therapy treatments specific to hip pain.
Hip pain can range from occasional tightness to serious pain that makes it difficult to turn over in bed. Ongoing pain in the hip can eventually change a person’s gait. Often, you’ll see someone who has been suffering with pain in the hip area for an extended period of time walking in a forward-bent manner. Massage therapy can help to relieve some types pain in the hips.
Causes of Hip Pain
Pain in the hip can be caused from several different types of arthritic conditions, injuries, pinched nerves, and other more serious conditions. It is very important to get a proper diagnosis from your physician as massage may not be appropriate for your type of hip area pain.
Massage Therapy for Hip Pain: More Information
An online publication called EpainAssist, has an article which discusses the benefits of massage therapy for this type of pain, Massage For Hip Pain Relief. The excerpt reads: “Massage therapy is very beneficial in controlling chronic pain and the difficulties with limited movement of the hip joint.”
Another excerpt taken from LiveStrong, called, Massage to Help with Hip Rotation, states: “Tight hip rotators can place unnecessary stress on the joint between your pelvis and sacrum known as the sacroiliac joint. … Keeping your hip rotators flexible supports your spine and helps prevent injuries. Massaging the muscles involved in hip rotation can help reduce tightness.”
The American Massage Therapy Association has a highly informative article called Massage + Anterior Hip Replacement, which discusses:
- pain in the hip area,
- the possible need for a hip replacement,
- the surgical approaches for hip replacement, and
- the role that massage therapy can play, both pre-operatively and post-operatively.
Massage Therapy Can Help Relieve Hip Pain
Pain in the hip area can be relieved by massage therapy. Massage can help to increase mobility in hip movement, relieve some pain and stress on the hip joint itself, and help assist correct pelvic alignment.