Hip Pain
Treat Hip Pain Fast with Acupuncture!
Joint Pain, Bursitis, Groin Pain
When people come in with pain in the hip, I ask them to show me ‘where is your pain’? Hip pain means different things to different people but generally my patients will indicate the areas surrounding the hip joint. These include buttock pain, pelvic pain, groin pain, or pain on the side of the hip. Sometimes hip pain feels like it is radiating from the low back. Or it may radiate into the leg, knee, ankle, or foot from either the low back, buttock, or the hip joint itself. Acupuncture to the rescue!
What Causes Hip Pain?
Causes of hip pain include bursitis, osteo-arthritis, pain after hip replacement, groin pulls, ilio-tibial band (ITB) syndrome, and pain referring from the low back. I have helped many patients with hip pain due to these issues find relief.
How Does Acupuncture Work for Hip Pain Relief?
Acupuncture clears blockage in the meridians. Meridians are channels that carry energy and blood flow to the muscles, joints, tendons, and bones. Blockage in the leg channels are responsible for hip and leg pain. The leg channels travel through your entire back, low back, and down into your leg. If you have blockage in your low back or hip, chances are you have pain.
There is a Chinese saying translated to English which states: No free flow = pain, free flow = no pain. The illustration below is a perfect example of how blocked meridians cause problems in the body. If a hose can’t carry water to water a plant, the plant suffers due to lack of water flow. Similarly, in your body, the area that is not getting sufficient flow suffers damage. Acupuncture restores free flow by removing blocks that are disrupting the meridians of your leg.
Hip Pain Research Studies
Acupuncture Demonstrates Improvements in Hip Pain
A study conducted to compare the effect of routine care with acupuncture and without in the treatment of osteoarthritis related to hip pain was done over a three month period. Almost 3700 people participated in the experiment and received 15 sessions during the three month study. “These results indicate that acupuncture plus routine care is associated with marked clinical improvement in patients with chronic OA-associated pain of the knee or hip.”