Knee & Hip Pain
Help for Knee & Hip Pain
Even if you take particularly good care of yourself by eating right and exercising regularly you may experience joint pain and stiffness in the hips and knees from time to time - especially as you age. In fact for many, discomfort in these areas is likely one of the most common reminders that they’re getting older.
Your joints are required to move anytime a muscle pulls on them to complete a motion. Going hard in sports training — now or in the past — can eventually make things like climbing stairs, bending over and performing other repetitive motions throughout life uncomfortable. This is due to the gradual degeneration of the cartilage cushion that surround the joints.
Sports injuries, falls or accidents can exacerbate this natural wear-and-tear process.
Without adequate cartilage present, the hip and knee joints don’t have anything to help absorb the shock of impactful movements. This bone-against-bone situation leads to inflammation in the joint, or osteoarthritis, that can cause enough pain and stiffness to limit mobility and dramatically curtail sports training.
Chiropractic care’s multiple holistic approaches to preventing and addressing knee and hip pain can be highly beneficial to athletes and non-athletes alike.
ACHIEVING & MAINTAINING
BODY ALIGNMENT
Proper body alignment is necessary for optimal body function. Misalignments anywhere can throw all movements off and can lead to primary or secondary joint pain.
Regular but gentle chiropractic adjustments to the spine, hips and knees can improve overall mobility, help sports injuries heal faster and even slow the progression of age-related osteoarthritis.
ACTIVE/PASSIVE
STRETCHING THERAPY
Flexibility is often the key to functionality. Overly tight glute muscles or weak hip flexors can cause hip instability and lead to pain and tenderness when walking, running, jumping or climbing. An imbalance in these muscles, as well as in hamstring and quad muscles can place undue compressive forces on knee joints that lead to pain or injury there.
Using prescribed chiropractic rehab exercises designed to strengthen weaker muscles can relieve stress on the joints. Some of these we can show you how to do at home, and others are done passively in-office by your DTX chiropractic team.
CHIROPRACTIC MASSAGE
While some hip and knee pain demands rest, managing pain from osteoarthritis requires that you keep moving, but that’s hard to do if you’re hurting. Chiropractic massage is a great way to reduce that pain and increase flexibility in muscles, joints, and tendons. By gently manipulating the soft tissues that surround joints, massage can encourage better blood flow, reduce inflammation and swelling, and improve the range of motion all over.
If you have had a sports injury or suspect that years of physical activity are taking a toll on your knees and/or hips, the time for a chiropractic consult is now. Once the cartilage degeneration process begins, it’s only going to get worse without intervention.
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DTX Sports Medicine can identify the cause of your pain and use proven modalities to relieve discomfort and slow the progression of symptoms to keep you active.