Do you suffer from hip pain?

Have you recently had a hip operation?

We offer personalised treatment solutions to treat hip pain successfully.

Hip pain s a common complain patients come and see us about.

Hip pain can be caused by a multitude of factors.

Our physios will run a detailed assessment, including a biomechanical assessment when required, to ascertain the origin of your pain.

We will then deliver a tailored management programme to help you return to fitness as quickly as possible.

  • The most common hip complain at the clinic. Hip OA will affect over 10% of the population is the UK. The pain location and severity will vary a lot between patients and is often not related to the level of arthritis in the joint.

    Physiotherapy is extremely useful. Hands-on technique and the right exercises will help manage the pain successfully. And hopefully will reduce (or at least will delay) the need of an operation.

  • A very common hip common hip complain in runners and female over 40 years old. We wrote a full article on GTPS in our Blog.

  • Hip Impingement is debilitating hip condition giving you pain at either the front or the back of the hip. It is commonly misdiagnosed as osteoarthritis or GTPS. It still most often seen in sporty people in the 30’s to 40’s.

    Hip impingement can be resolved with a tailored strengthening exercises and loading management programme.

  • Sports groin pain is an umbrella term used for any pain in the groin area resulting from a sport activities. Sports Hernia include inguinal hernia, groin muscle strain, pubalgia.

    Groin pain can also be caused by hip OA, labral tear or impingement or even some spine issues.

    A thorough physiotherapy assessment is essential to get a diagnosis and help establish the right management programme.

  • Osteitis Pubis is an extremely frustrating condition when the pubis symphysis (the joint between the tow pubis bones) get irritated. It is generally caused by a muscle imbalance or repetitions of microtrauma (such as in football).

    It is typically seen in athlete reaching in the second part of their sport career.

    Physiotherapy is simply the BEST thing to do to solve an osteitis pubis.

    The rehab generally takes several months and all muscle imbalance will need to be addressed before considering return to sports.

  • Avulsion and stress fracture in the hip area are not uncommon. Avulsion of the ilium are seen in very active teenagers. Femoral or pubis bone stress fractures are seen across the board and often caused by exercise overloading and dietetic mismatch.

  • The runner nightmare.

    Hamstrings tendinopathy is a common complain seen in a lot of impact sports. It is a multitude of possible causes.

    physiotherapy will help to work out what the potential causes and offer solutions to treat the defective tendon.

We offer Hip post-op Rehabilitation.

From a few days after your surgery to return to normal activities, we will accompany through your healing journey and help you make the most of your operation.

Being under the care of a physio from Day One will guarantee safe progress without taking any risks of worsening.

✔ Find the source of the pain

✔ Get rid of it

✔ Take control

✔ Prevent

  • During your initial assessment, we will first talk about you, your pain and how it affects your life.

    Your therapist will then run a full assessment which will include.

    • Your joints: Your range of movement tells us what joints are affected.

    • Your muscles: Your muscle strength and agility shows us what muscles are affected and if there are any trapped nerves.

    • Your diagnosis: After getting to the root of your pain, you get a diagnosis, we explain to you what’s going on and put together a treatment plan for you.

    We strongly believe that if you understand your pain, you can manage it better.

    We will always make sure you understand what caused your hip pain, what can help you get better and how to avoid it in the future.

  • Your treatment will depend on the severity of your pain and the integrity of the tissue. We have a wide range of treatments available to relieve your neck & shoulder pain.

    When you are in acute pain, our pririty is to reduce it. We have a wide range of therapeutic tools which can help you including

    • Acupuncture

    • Massage

    • Ultrasounds

    • TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation)

    • Taping

    Because moving is the best way way to you recover, we will also devise on day one an exercise plan for you, specifically targeting your injury or pain.

    Once the pain lessens, we will put a specific strengthening exercise programme in place for you to bring you back to your full fitness.

    Regular massage and acupuncture might be required during that period to help you keep the symptoms at bay. Finally, you will be discharged with the knowledge and the exercises to prevent the problem from coming back.

    Some shoulder problems, such as a frozen shoulder or an impingement, might require cortisone injections. This will help decrease the inflammation and allow you to start the rehabilitation with less discomfort.

    In rare cases, often with rotator cuff injuries, we might need an X-ray or MRI to check the extent of the injury and to see if you require an operation.

  • Once the acute pain is away, your therapist will offer a long term exercise programme which will target any weaknesses that might have contributed to your injury in first place.