Hip Pain and Dysfunction

Hip pain can be a debilitating condition that affects numerous aspects of daily life, from simple tasks like walking to more complex movements like exercising or even sitting comfortably. Conventional medical care often only masks symptoms and doesn’t take care of the underlying issues.

Central Avenue Health Centre offers an alternative. We focus on a holistic approach that includes chiropractic care, massage therapy, and acupuncture. Carefully combining these methods, we can alleviate your pain and help you naturally restore long-term functionality in your hips.

Understanding Your Hip Pain and Dysfunction

Before delving into how we can care for you, it’s essential to understand why you need our care.

The hip joint is a complex structure composed of bones, ligaments, tendons, and muscles, all working together to support the body’s weight and facilitate movement. We carefully assess each patient’s body to determine the root causes of hip pain and dysfunction.

There are many possible factors. Conditions such as osteoarthritis, bursitis, muscle strains, and sciatica can lead to hip pain and restricted mobility. Poor posture, repetitive stress, and imbalances in the musculoskeletal system can also exacerbate the issues, creating a cycle of discomfort and impairment.

Chiropractic Care: Restoring Your Alignment and Functionality

When it comes to relieving hip pain, we’ve found that a variety of chiropractic techniques can be helpful. Chiropractic care focuses on aligning the spine and restoring balance to the musculoskeletal system.

By tailoring our adjustments to your specific needs, we can address spinal misalignments as well as imbalances that may contribute to hip dysfunction. If we can make sure you have proper alignment and function with the spine and pelvis, there are benefits related to hip pain, including enhanced mobility and a decrease in inflammation and pressure on the hip joints.

Massage Therapy: Relieving Tension and Promoting Your Healing

Massage therapy is another powerful tool we can use in our holistic care of hip pain. Through manual manipulation of soft tissues, such as muscles and fascia, we can release tension, improve circulation, and promote healing in the hip region.

Techniques such as deep tissue massage, myofascial release, and trigger point therapy target areas of tightness and discomfort, helping to alleviate discomfort and restore range of motion. Additionally, our massage therapy can address compensatory patterns and muscular imbalances that contribute to hip dysfunction, providing long-term relief and prevention of future issues.

Acupuncture: Balancing Your Energy Flow and Easing Your Pain

A third modality we use at our Saskatoon office is acupuncture, a technique that involves the insertion of thin needles into specific points on the body. We can target acupuncture points associated with the hip and lower back, bringing needed energy flow through these areas and reducing inflammation, muscle tension, and pain.

The Transformation of Your Holistic Healing

Through the harmonization of the body and targeted interventions addressing the root causes of discomfort, we employ diverse modalities to facilitate transformative healing, rejuvenating the hip joint and restoring optimal functionality.

Hip Pain and Dysfunction Saskatoon, Sutherland SK | (306) 651-2225