Massage For Hip Pain

Sometimes hip pain is just muscular and caused by trigger point in the muscles. And you can get relief to your hip pain just by massaging the muscles that are responsible of harboring the trigger points. Here is how you do it.

You search for tender spots from muscles near your hip joint, and massage them trough out the day in small sessions. If you find a spot that amplifies or reproduces the pain symptom that’s troubling you when pressed, great you are on the right track, give that spot extra attention. But don’t neglect other spots entirely for the sake of that special one.

The results you are after along with the pain relief is for the spots to become less tender. You want to give the massage a few days to kick in before you make any judgement for its effectiveness.

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Within a week or so you should be able to tell if it helps or not, and if it’s worth pursuing any further. For the massage you probably want to use tennis ball against a floor because it allows you to reach and self massage virtually any muscle in you body effectively.

Muscles that are Attributed to Hip Pain

  • Gluteus minimus
  • Gluteus maximus
  • Quadratus lumborum
  • Tensor latae fasciae
  • Piriformis
  • Vastus lateralis
  • Vastus intermedialis

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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
By MotleyHealth

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