How Your Hips Can Cause Your Lower Back Pain
Lower back pain is one of the most prevalent pains affecting office workers. Undoubtedly, this is due to the extended periods of time spent sitting at their desks. It is unrealistic for a health professional to advise you to spend less time sitting and you would be very unlikely to find one telling you to […]
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 […]
