How Your Hips Can Cause Your Lower Back Pain
Hip pain can sometimes cause lower back pain, and vice versa. Your hips can cause back pain because they sit near your spine therefore, the pain may be felt in your back. Lower back and hip pain can be caused by injury during sports activities, conditions such as arthritis, strain, or poor posture. Your hip […]
The hip anatomical alignment and flexibility
There are very few scientific proofs about the reliability and validity of hip and pelvic alignment measures. A longer or shorter leg has often been pointed out as having an impact on biomechanics and joint injury. From the literature, a leg length discrepancy – LLD – has to be over 20mm, measured on an X-ray. […]
Assessing hip mechanics for runners
Over the past 20 years, the hip joint has been focused as a key injury predictor. When the knee flexes, internally rotates and abducts during the first half of stance, the hip works in a similar fashion. After heel strike and during the first third of the stance the hip flexes then undergoes almost full […]
