Hip Pain Relief and Knee Pain Relief Bridgeport, TX

Hip And Knee Pain in Bridgeport

What’s Causing My Hip & Knee Pain?

Pain felt in the hips and/or knees may originate in the joints themselves, but it may also be a result of an underlying condition in another part of the body. Some of the most common causes of knee and hip pain include:

Meniscus Injury

The meniscus is a ring of cartilage on the lower part of the knee (the tibial plateau) that the end of the large femur bone rides on. The meniscus is responsible for providing cushioning and stability of the knee joint while guiding movement. The meniscus is supposed to be smooth to ensure good gliding of the knee when it is bending. With injuries, poor alignment or weak musculature, the meniscus can become bruised and even torn.

Tendonitis

Commonly, the tendon that connects your quadriceps muscle to the tibia bone (quadriceps tendon above the kneecap and patellar ligament below the kneecap) can become inflamed resulting in a condition also known as jumper’s knee. This thick tendon runs over the top of your kneecap and attaches to the tibia bone below. This structure can often become inflamed due to abnormal joint movements, poor posture and weakness of the surrounding musculature.

ACL Injury

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is an important ligament that checks the forward sliding of the tibia bone on the femur bone in the knee. This ligament can be injured with sports or falls, especially with blows to the knee from the side, while the foot is planted on the ground.

Knee Pain

Most knee pain stems from the loss of what is called “accessory motions”. Accessory motions are the knee’s smaller movements that are sliding side-to-side, back and forth as well as spinning and rotating.

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Knee pain can seriously interfere with your life. Physical therapy can help get to the root of your problem safely and comfortably, without the need for harmful drugs or surgery. Request an appointment to relieve knee pain altogether.

What’s Causing My Hip & Knee Pain?

Pain felt in the hips and/or knees may originate in the joints themselves, but it may also be a result of an underlying condition in another part of the body. Some of the most common causes of knee and hip pain include:

Hip Replacement
Total-Hip-Replacement

In a total hip replacement surgery, the socket of the hip joint and head of the femur are replaced. With a partial hip replacement either the head of the femur is replaced or the socket of the hip. There have been many advances in the technology of the total hip replacement prosthesis and procedures allowing for less invasive surgery and faster recovery times.

Piriformis Syndrome
Piriformis

The piriformis muscle is deep in the buttocks and helps with rotating the hip. The sciatic nerve typically dives underneath the piriformis muscle as it makes it way down to the leg. With excessive sitting, loss of movement in the hips or trauma, the piriformis muscle can press down onto the sciatic nerve. Typically, mild symptoms cause aching deep into the buttock and often radiating pain to the outer thigh. With more severe cases, tingling, numbness or severe pain can radiate down the thigh.

Trochanteric Bursitis
Hip-Bursitis

Bursitis is inflammation of a bursa and tendonitis is inflammation of a tendon. In the hip there is a rather large bursa on the outside between the bony area and the thick band of tissue stretching from your hip to your knee. People tend to feel pain with prolonged walking or standing. It is often, very tender to touch on the outer hip and thigh.

Osteoarthritis
Arthritis

Osteoarthritis of the hip can be painful as the hip is needed to move with sit to stand, walking, squatting and bending. Most minor to moderate cases of hip osteoarthritis can highly benefit from physical therapy.

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Hip pain can seriously interfere with your life. Physical therapy can help get to the root of your problem safely and comfortably, without the need for harmful drugs or surgery. Request an appointment to relieve hip pain altogether.

Everything You Need to Know About Hip and Knee Pain

Do your knees feel painful, or even feel as if they may buckle underneath you without warning? Do sharp pains in your hip make it difficult to get up in the mornings. Move about during the day, and lie back down at night?

Hip joint pain and knee pain can seriously interfere with your life, especially if you are dealing with both. Whichever may be paining you, physical therapy can help get to the root of your problem safely and comfortably, without the need for harmful drugs or surgery. Request an Appointment with Foundation Therapy to relieve your hip and knee pain altogether. Sparing you the need for potentially harmful medication or surgical correction.

Why am I experiencing hip and/or knee pain?

Hip and knee pains can be experienced together or separately, but it is important to note that as the old saying goes. Your knee bone is connected to your hip bone, therefore what happens with one, affects the other. Your hip is a ball-and-socket joint that works to support the weight of your upper body, relying on multiple muscles and tissues to keep it mobile and stable so it can move properly. Your knee is a hinge joint, confined to forward-and-backward motions. Individually, your knees support more weight than the hips, 6 times your body weight when doing a squat. Proper movement of both your hips and knees allows complicated motions giving you the ability to stand, walk, run, and dance without falling over.

Pain felt in the hips and/or knees may originate in the joints themselves, but it may also be a result of an underlying condition in another part of the body. For example, your hips and knees are part of the same kinetic chain. The meaning of this they, make up a combination of weight-bearing joints that must function together in harmony in order for your body and posture to function properly. Therefore, a problem with your knee joint may transmit abnormal forces to your hips, and vice versa. If one part of the kinetic chain is out of balance, stress and deterioration may be placed on another.

Understanding hip and knee pain:

Many times, the hips and knees suffer the same diseases, disorders, and injuries. For example, overuse injuries such as tendinitis and chronic muscle strain are common in both the hips and knees because both joints are constantly in use. They are also both subject to acute injuries, such as sprains, strains, and dislocation.

Hip and knee pain can also be caused by referred pain from a pinched sciatic nerve. As the nerve travels through both areas. Imbalances in your stance or gait may cause abnormal stresses and premature wear-and-tear in your hips and knees, resulting in painful symptoms of arthritis.

Some painful conditions may be specific to one joint or the other. Cartilage injuries known as labral tears are specific to hip pain. Inflammation of the bursa sacs known as bursitis is a specific condition affecting the knee joint. However, painful injuries that cause instability in the hips can also affect the knees. Tight hip flexor muscles and weak gluteus medius muscles can cause the hip to rotate inward without you realizing it. This can cause painful problems such as iliotibial band friction syndrome or patellofemoral stress syndrome, as stress is put on the knee or kneecap.

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Find hip and knee pain relief today in Bridgeport:

The physical therapy treatments at Foundation Therapy can help to greatly reduce your hip and knee pain. Our Bridgeport, TX physical therapists will examine your hip and/or knee for signs of misalignment or structural damage, in addition to examining your stance, posture, gait, and range of motion. In many cases, our physical therapists can relieve your pain altogether, sparing you the need for potentially harmful medication, injections or surgical correction.

After your physical exam is complete, our physical therapists will prescribe a physical therapy plan for you, aimed at relieving unnatural stresses and strains. They will also focus on normalizing your joint function so you can get back to living life comfortably.

You will be given targeted exercises designed for relieving joint pain and stabilizing the weak hip and/or knee. The exercises may vary depending on your condition. For example, research has demonstrated that those suffering from patella pain (kneecap pain). Which tends to respond better to exercises. That focus on strengthening both the hips and knees, rather than just focusing on the knees alone.

You may also be given exercises designed to strengthen the core, including your lower back muscle groups. Also lower abdominal muscle groups, or pelvic muscles. Core exercises are aimed at straightening your posture and equalizing the weight load on both sides of your body. Additional specialized treatments may also be added as our physical therapists deem fit. Like mobilizations to improve joint movement or other soft tissue treatments. That relieves pain and promotes the healing of damaged hips and/or knees.

If you are in Bridgeport, Decatur, Runaway Bay, Paradise, Chico, Alvord, Sunset, Jacksboro, Bowie, Boyd, or the counties of Wise, Jack, and Montague, and you are suffering from hip or knee pain. Then request an appointment with one of our specialists at Foundation Therapy. It is time to take a stand against your hip and knee pain. Get started on the path toward long-lasting pain relief today! Your hips and knees will be glad you did!

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