Relieve Hip Pain Once and for All With These 5 Moves

Whether you’ve experienced a twinge in your hip while picking up your toddler or had to skip the half marathon you’ve been training for because of dull ache—or both—hip pain can be a nagging, and at times debilitating, condition that can cause you to put life on pause.

Though dealing with an injury can sometimes feel super isolating (IYKYK), hip pain is one of the most common injuries out there. Fortunately, there are several ways to assess and treat hip pain, depending on what’s behind the issue.

Ahead, check out expert advice on how to figure out what sort of hip pain you’re dealing with, how to treat it, exercises and stretches that might help, and signs it’s time to check in with a professional.

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4 causes of hip pain

One of the first key steps to eliminating hip pain is to figure out what kind of pain you’re experiencing. Good news: There’s a lot of possibilities. Bad news: There’s a lot of possibilities. But one quick distinction, which will likely need to come from a licensed medical provider, can help point you to remedy the issue.

Potential causes of hip pain frequently fall into two overarching categories: intra-articular pain—which deals with the hip joint (the joint capsule and labrum), like osteoarthritis—and extra-articular pain, which addresses problems with the muscle, tendons, and bursa that surround the hip joint, explains Jon Mayer, PT, DPT, CSCS, physical therapist at the Medical University of South Carolina.

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