Hip pain

[thager]

Skied 3 rounds at MS' Tourney last weekend. Have had a sore hip ever since.

Not sure what is causing the pain. Feels like the the right hip socket. Have a constant ache with loss of strength. I can hardly push my right foot into my shoe! If I stand in ski stance LFF and counter to right it hurts like the dickens!! Any one have something similar or know some therapy?

[miski]

Is it your rear hip?

Mike McCormick recommended rotating my rear boot to get rid of pretty bad ongoing rear hip pain. Mike rattled off names of 3-4 skiers that have had their rear hips replaced including one of Lapoint brothers and Lucky.

At the time I was on Wiley rear boot - trimmed plate front and rear until d-rings were very near edge of ski. Took awhile to get used to setup, but fixed my hip 100%. It's probably not optimum setup, but it was worth it. Had to figure out how to get rear knee in behind front knee...

[T-UP]

I have hip pain when I ski everyday. It’s my right hip (rear hip). Chiropractor said it was my nerves in my lower back. I have an inversion table that I hang on everyday…seems to help, but if I ski everyday nothing helps.

[HO 410]

Everyone works out of their own paradigm, so I would always expect a chiropractor to treat many problems as nerve related. All I can tell you is that my Dad used to visit a chiropractor 5 or 6 times a year. Since then he has begun to visit a physical therapist (albeit one who's roster includes several MLB), and the  exercise plan has made the chiropractor almost superfluous. 

 

[scoke]

 

And another anecdotal diagnosis:

I've had hip pain on both sides caused by two differing things.

First was my left hip (rear leg). It was painful to the touch and I could barely ski. Between a P.T., chiro and Jones (of course he was on the money) figured it out down to too tight of a hamstring and too tight of a quad, and tight hip flexor. I stretched it non-stop for about two weeks and was pain free. Not only did i do traditional hamstring/quad stretches, i stretched my hip out using similar to these: the lying on the back stretch hit the spots http://www.drbackman.com/piriformis-muscle-stretch.htm

Second time was my right hip. It was directly related to a piriformis pain in between my gluteus max/min; caused by sitting in a hard chair at work. the pain would be shooting into my right hip bown up into my back. I thought it was lumbar but again found the piriformis stretches eased up the tension, of course i switched chairs too. Amazingly everything worked.

 

[elr]

I had similar symtoms with a ruptured disc, the loss of strength was what was worrysome to my physician.  I'd have it checked out quickly.

[Chef23]

I have right hip pain but mine is arthritis related.  When I am tired from overworking it there is definitely more pain in the area.  Generally the more I exersize and strengthen it the less pain I have every day though.

[RichardDoane]

I get the pain of lower back/left hip when I haven't been stretching enough.  It's related to being RFF, so the left hip gets tight.  The chiro can't even get my S I joint to crack when it's tight.  The stretch of the right quad seems to relieve the tension after a couple of days.  I quit taking Advil daily, so now I feel it more.  I blame it on becoming a M4 skier last season.

[Bill Gladding]

M4=Mens Sore! (it even rhymes if you say it out loud), Been there for a few years now:(

[miski]

Also had 2-3yrs of SI alignment issues - PT was big part of solution showing me how to stretch, mobilize, & strengthen - certainly recommend this as the goal is to put you in control. When I started skiing again after many years off, this actually fixed 99% my SI issues. Was already doing piriformis, ham, hip-flexor/soas stretches, and general hip socket retraction 2x daily prior to when skiing started bothering rear hip & hamstring. I swear rotating rear boot was pretty much an immediate fix for me.

[slalom frog]

I've had my left hip surgically reshaped in 2004 to try and slow down the damage being done to my hip due to an oversized femur head.  I can say that my left hip no longer hurts but the right one has been bothering me quite a bit this summer.  I have the same condition in my right hip that I had in my left hip prior to the surgery.  I've just been waiting for the process to get a little less invasive and have a quicker recovery time.  I am RFF but I'm not convinced that slalom has been affecting my hip.  I think that tricking may be though.