HIP PAIN TREATMENT
Hip pain can significantly affect your ability to walk, exercise, work, sleep, and enjoy everyday activities. Whether your pain is felt in the front of the hip, the side of the hip, the groin, or the buttock, it may be caused by a variety of conditions involving the joint, muscles, tendons, ligaments, or surrounding structures. Common causes include muscle strains, tendinopathy, bursitis, hip impingement, arthritis, labral injuries, movement dysfunction, or pain referred from the lower back. Because hip pain often develops from multiple contributing factors, effective treatment focuses on identifying and addressing the underlying cause rather than simply reducing symptoms.
At True Grit Physical Therapy, we perform a comprehensive evaluation of your hip mobility, strength, flexibility, gait, balance, movement mechanics, and surrounding joints to determine what is contributing to your pain. We assess how your pelvis, core, lower back, knees, and ankles work together, as limitations in one area can place additional stress on the hip. Identifying these contributing factors allows us to develop an individualized treatment plan that restores normal movement, reduces pain, and improves long-term function.
Your hip pain treatment program may include manual therapy, joint mobilization, soft tissue treatment, dry needling when appropriate, therapeutic exercise, neuromuscular re-education, gait training, balance training, and movement retraining to improve strength, mobility, and stability. We also provide education on activity modification, posture, and exercise progression to help you manage symptoms while returning safely to the activities that matter most. Every treatment plan is tailored to your diagnosis, functional goals, and lifestyle.
Research consistently supports physical therapy as a first-line, conservative treatment for many causes of hip pain. By improving joint mobility, restoring muscle strength, correcting movement impairments, and addressing contributing factors throughout the kinetic chain, physical therapy can reduce pain, improve function, and help many individuals delay or avoid more invasive interventions.
Whether your hip pain developed gradually, began after a sports injury, resulted from repetitive overuse, or has worsened with age, early treatment can improve recovery and help prevent chronic symptoms. At True Grit Physical Therapy, we combine evidence-based care with individualized treatment to relieve hip pain, restore mobility, and help you return to work, recreation, and daily life with greater confidence and comfort.
