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Are Your Hips Making Everyday Life Hard?
You may have experienced stiffness in or around your hips or even your lower back. These issues create difficulty moving the joint and cause generalized weakness in the affected leg. Having pain or stiffness in your hip can cause difficulty with the following functional activities:
- Walking
- Going up and down stairs
- Squatting
- Standing up from a chair
- Standing for prolonged periods of time
When there is significant stiffness in your hip, you may also start to experience trouble completing tasks such as sitting with your legs crossed, putting on your shoes and socks and getting in and out of the car.
Read full blogLow Back Pain and How it Affects Us
Low back pain is very prevalent in our society and can greatly limit our ability to carry out daily tasks. Many of us have complained at one point or another about stiffness, or radiating pain in to the buttock/legs or into the mid back. These are both indicators of low back pain affecting us.
The pain can range anywhere from a mild nagging pain to a severe pain that will greatly limit your mobility.