3 Cheers for Osteopaths. Hip, Hip, Hooray …*

One of my patients came to me recently complaining about pain in her right hip. She’s 21, so not exactly ready for a hip replacement.

She likes to keep fit - and lunges, squatting and running were becoming impossible.

You know I’m a bit of a detective, right? (*Not a stand-up comedian, it’s fair to say…)

 I put my deerstalker on and checked in to my mind palace.

 Guess what?

 Her right pelvic bone was restricted. Not able to move properly. Ouch.

The great news - I was able to sort that out for her. And 3 treatments later, she was in much less pain, but I had a niggling feeling that there was something else going on…

I checked out various other possibilities. Nothing doing.

But then I worked it out. Her pubis - that’s the bone right at the front of the pelvic girdle, which basically connects our lower limbs to our spine - was out of alignment. 

Aha.

And now everything is in balance again.

No more hip pain.

 She was born to run. Squat. Lunge. So now she’s cheering.

 Osteopaths. There for all the good bits. And the painful bits. For life.

p.s. Just wondering why she waited so long to come and see me. 3 years of pain. Sheesh. Life’s too short. 

In pain? Don't be. Come and see me. I promise not to make any jokes.

I'm at The Bell Surgery, 453 Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 8AU.

0161 881 2128.