HIP JOINT PAIN & HOLI STIC TTEATMENT

HIP JOINT  PAIN & TREATMENT

HIP JOINT STRENGTHENING EXERCISES:

SITTING:

• Swing both legs from side to side keeping feet together (to work the rotators).
• Keeping spine straight trunk bend forwards and backwards.
• Stand up and sit down slowly.

LYING:

• Knees flexed, feet on floor- pelvic raising and lowering.
• Start as above- bend alternate knees to chest.
• Start as above, bend one knee on to chest, pelvic raising and lowering- change legs (add passing ball under pelvis from side to side).
• Alternate straight leg raising and lowering.
• Prone lying- alternate leg raising and lowering.
• Side lying, top leg raising and lowering.
• Side lying, - top leg positioned behind and underneath one- underneath leg raising and lowering.

HOMEOPATHY:

Case history:

• Pain in left hip joint with stiffness and due to weakness of cervical muscles , mind works slowly. Cocculus indica is the remedy.
• 43 year old hard to put her feet on ground but relieved after some walk; given colocynth 30 thrice a day for four days.
• 48 year old hard to put her feet on ground due to stinging pain on heel but relieved after some walk. Orthopaedic told that it is calcaneal spur so wear a soft slipper. Colocynth 200  two dose at evening, given lots of relief then one dose of 1m given and pain disappeared.
• If calcaneal spur  or growth of bone happens in a joint and colocynth don't work;  give calcarea fluor 1m once a week.
• In sciatica when there are shooting pains, like “lightning shock” extending from hips down the hips down to the popliteal fossae on the posterior portion of the hip, relieved by pressure colocynth is the remedy. If patient lies on painful side Bryonia will be added. Magnesia phos  in neuralgia case and Calcarea flour in stony hardness either in gland, fasciae or ligaments. If sciatica pain shoots down the outer side of the right leg, phytolacca is the remedy.
• Belladonna is used in case of inflammation (red, swelling, pain, heat).
• Arsenic is used when burning is must.
• Gnaphalium is used in case of  numbness.
• Graphitis is required when there is history of skin disease.
• Pulsatilla pain moves one joint to another with redness and swelling. Great dryness but no thirst. Always desire fatty foods and cold things.
• Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla and treats the hip joint pain where length of leg are unbalanced.