Arthritis in the hips causes pain and stiffness that limits the range of motion of your hips. However, hip arthritis isn’t limited to causing pain in your hips. It can cause pain to shoot down your entire leg.
Limited range of motion in your hips has a domino effect on the surrounding muscles, ligaments and tendons in your legs. Stiffness and weakness can develop in these muscles and soft tissue due to inactivity caused by the pain in your hip that limits your mobility. However, exercising helps reduce and prevent this kind of pain.
Treat your hip arthritis with physical therapy
Exercising is difficult when you have hip pain, so you feel like you’re stuck in a loop if you need exercise to help reduce pain but cannot exercise because of the pain. This is where physical therapists come in.
Physical therapists are licensed health care professionals who specialize in treatments that help reduce pain and improve your range of motion. They frequently work with conditions that cause pain and stiffness in the joints like arthritis.
Physical therapists customize treatments to the needs of each individual patient. If you visit a physical therapist for help with hip arthritis and leg pain, they’ll examine your condition to determine which exercises and other treatments are right for you.
The exercises that physical therapists guide you through are designed specifically with people like you in mind. These exercises are gentle on the hips but challenging enough to engage the muscles and help improve their strength and flexibility. The goal of increasing strength and flexibility in these muscles is to help improve your range of motion and reduce pressure off the hip joint that contributes to arthritis pain.
Visit Peak Performance Sports and Physical Therapy for hip arthritis treatment
Is your hip arthritis causing pain to shoot down your entire leg? It’s time you talked to a physical therapist about your treatment options to help reduce your pain. Contact our team today for more information about hip arthritis or to schedule an initial appointment.
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