For years, greater trochanteric bursitis has been the go-to diagnosis for pain on the outside of the hip. More recent research tells a different story. If you’ve been told you have hip bursitis, prescribed anti-inflammatory medication, and advised to rest and ice the area, only to have the pain return, there’s a good chance bursitis […]
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Proximal hamstring tendinopathy is one of the most commonly missed causes of hip pain. Because sitting often makes it worse, many people assume the pain is coming from a tight muscle or a vague hip problem rather than the hamstring tendon. As a result, they stretch more and rest more. Unfortunately, those strategies rarely solve
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One of the most common things people do when they develop pain on the outside of the hip is aggressively stretch their IT band and piriformis. It feels logical because the area often feels tight. As a result, stretching seems like the obvious solution. The problem is that most cases of lateral hip pain are
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Hip pain is one of the most misdiagnosed conditions in outpatient physical therapy, and the reason is straightforward: the hip is not one simple structure. It is a layered system of joints, tendons, bursae, nerves, and soft tissue, and a problem in any one of them can feel almost identical to a problem in another.
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Sciatica has a way of making itself impossible to ignore. The electric shooting pain down the back of the leg, the numbness, the feeling that your hip or glute is somehow both painful and dead at the same time. It’s one of the most common reasons people come to see us, and one of the
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Sciatica has a way of making itself impossible to ignore. The electric shooting pain down the back of the leg, the numbness, the feeling that your hip or glute is somehow both painful and dead at the same time. It’s one of the most common reasons people come to see us, and one of the
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Written by Dr. Jonny Blue, DPT · Founder, Land and Sea Physical Therapy Hip pain is one of the most misread conditions we see in the clinic. Patients arrive having been told they have bursitis when they have a labral tear, or told they have a labral tear when they have impingement, or told it’s
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