Niggly hip

[SoaringSwine]

For extended periods of my infancy my parents negligently left me in one of these...

The result being later in life I've had issue with my hips. I spent 3-4 days in hospital when I was 6 in absolute agony and a couple times when playing soccer or kicking a rugby ball it's caused me some grief. Physios can't really work out what it is but I'm pretty convinced it's something to do with the tendons in there.

It's only given me the odd niggle over the past few years but I'm feeling it increasingly often when I squat.

Anyone have any idea for stretches or something that could help?

[chchardgainer]

are you serious about the bouncy thing ??

maybe yoga... yoga helps flexibility greatly :nod:

[SoaringSwine]

Yes, I was left in them for hours at a time. These days they have a warning advising against excessive use.

[Manu]

OMG!! Surely it's not the jolly jumper. Mind you, my brother has messed up co-ordination because my parents put him in a walker before he could crawl. (so they reckon)

Has the physio given you any exercises to help? I have an unaligned hip (from carrying kids on my hip) and the physio gave me these stretches to do at home which seem to help. Accupressure helps too, gets pretty intense but definitely makes a difference.

[SoaringSwine]

I got some years ago, but long forgotten, of course.

[SoaringSwine]

*bump*

When I was squating today I noticed my right knee was lower than my left at the bottom of my squat. This even happened when I had no weight on me. I'm thinking that I'm more flexible on one side than the other, and that is causing stress on my right hip? Just a thought.

[Dumbelldog]

You should go and see a postural alignment specialist they will check it all out and they can normally tell you how to correct your problem.

[NBS 4life]

Is the pain in your hip flexors or is it towards gluteal insertions or what, I have done quite a bit of postual allignment with athletes and there can be heaps of reasons.

[Mike Zero]

Is the pain in your hip flexors or is it towards gluteal insertions or what, I have done quite a bit of postual allignment with athletes and there can be heaps of reasons.

Yeah, where abouts exactly is the pain?

[SoaringSwine]

The flexor I'd say.

I'm starting to do some stretches each night. One is like a lunge, but with one knee on the floor and you push your hips forward/towards the ground. That seems to really stretch it. Dunno if it will work though :?