Health blog Category: hip problems
One of the Most Stable Joints in the Body…
Jun 20th 2019
You guessed it, the hip joint! However, that does not keep this joint and region of the body from becoming unstable, developing issues, and producing discomfort.
Unstable hip joints can lead to discomfort and weakness in the hip region and creates difficulties:
- sleeping or lying in certain positions
- standing, walking, running, and climbing stairs
- standing up from a seated position
- balancing
- bending your leg in towards your chest (such as when dressing, cutting your toe nails, or washing/drying your feet)
There are multiple structures in and around the hip joint that can produce pain in this area of the body:
- Labrum
- The ring of cartilage around the rim of the socket of the hip joint.
How to Protect Our Hips from IT Band Problems
May 29th 2019
What is the IT band and how do problems start here and how can you protect your hips? There are a number of muscles on the outside of your hip that attach to the IT band. The job of all of these muscles is to keep the hip joint structures open, help support the joint and then create the movement of the joint. Most commonly what happens when you are experiencing some level of IT band problems, is that the muscles on the outside of the hip that are working to hold the hip together while we move the leg are overworking.
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