8 Hip Pain Exercises and More to Relieve Your Annoying Hip Pain
Arthritis, Avascular Necrosis, Hip Pain Strain, and Back Pain all cause mild to severe hip pain. When you do daily stretches and hip pain exercises, you will decrease your hip pain and strengthen your hip muscles.
A good habit to get into is to do daily morning stretches. Some of the most popular recommended stretches are knees to chest stretch, hamstring stretch, and lying down spine twist. At first it will be little hard to get into the morning routine of stretching however it will get easier over short period of time.
How does stretching decrease your hip pain? When you stretch, you stretch the hip muscles and joints which increase the blood flow to that area. By increasing the blood flow, you are decreasing hip joint inflammation and loosening up the joint motion.
Hip Pain Exercises decreases your hip pain and also strengthens your hip joints and muscles. 3 highly recommended exercises are walking, swimming, and biking. First, start out doing these exercises for about 10 to 15 minutes a day and then increasing the time at your own rate. Another reason why these exercises are highly recommended is because it does not put high impact pounding affect on the joints like running does.
After you have control over your hip pain, you can start to do more strenuous hip exercises to increase your hip strength. Some of these exercises are: squats, lunges, and even speed walking. However, I recommend staying away from running. Running tends to put more stress and increased impact against the hip joints. By doing this, you are increasing the risk of causing more damage and pain.
One of the most important steps you can take to decrease your hip pain is sitting down or lying down. This is especially important if you have been on your feet a lot or you just finished doing hip exercises. Giving your body a chance to recover and rebuild is just important as doing hip pain exercises.
When you choose to sit down to recover from being on your feet or when your hip pain just becomes little too much, you can apply heat to loosen up your hip joints and muscles. Heat be applied to your hip by taking a hot bath, applying heat wrap, or using an electric heating pad. After applying heat, you can then apply an over-the-counter pain reliever cream called Arnica. Dont worry it does not smell bad; it absorbs into the skin instantly, and does not feel sticky.
If the pain becomes unbearable, contact your Orthopedic Medical Doctor. He or she is trained in pain management. An over the counter pain reliever or prescription may be suggested. Make sure you tell your Doctor all the medications you are taking plus any allergic reactions you have to medications.