As a culture of chair-sitters, most of us tend to develop a fairly typical pattern of weakness and tightness around the hips and lower back. It happens like this: sitting in a chair with support, or sitting unsupported in a slouched posture both cause the lower back muscles to gradually weaken, and the hamstrings to
If you remember, last month I described a patient’s experience after having a trauma to her left hip 7 years ago. After getting only temporary relief with both chiropractic, and physical therapy intervention, she began to practice yoga only to find that it seemed to provoke her pain instead of ease it. Two exam findings
She’d been having left hip pain for seven years now, ever since a fall on her left side while snowboarding. “I landed so hard, it made my teeth rattle!” she said, “And I was just getting good at it!” she added remorsefully. And even though she’d tried various treatments over the years, the problem remained.
