Heal Your Hips without Surgery
Breath-Based Corrective Exercise for Labral Tears & FAI 'Femoral Acetabular Impingement Syndromes'
YES, it is possible to avoid FAI surgeries and get out of pain. These somatic-based exercises have helped many people relieve the pain associated with labral tears, cam impingements, and osteoarthritis in the hip joint and avoid surgery.
Research has shown that the usage of the hip joint, rather than its architecture alone, can contribute to FAI impingements as well as osteoarthritis of the hip joint. Changing posture and exercise routines can have a significant effect on the anatomy and preservation of the hip joint.
This video will give you the tools to strengthen the stabilizers of the hip while working globally with your posture habits to create strength and stability throughout all your joints.
The video features Michaelle Edwards and her client Liz, who was diagnosed with a labral tear of the hip and scheduled for labral repair surgery. After using these exercises for just a few weeks, Liz was able to get out of pain and return to mountain biking, hiking, and surfing. It has now been about four years, and she never had the surgery and remains out of pain!
Learn to avoid yoga poses such as forward bends or deep hip stretches that can create laxity in the ligaments needed for hip stabilization. Many well-known yoga teachers have needed hip replacements, some even in their 40s, after years of repetitive practice involving deep stretching of the hips and sacral ligaments. Repetitively practicing forward bends with the knees straight can overstretch and weaken the spinal and pelvic ligaments needed to support upright posture. Yoga poses such as Child’s Pose and some spinal twists can also place compression on the hip joint.
Exercises need to be performed with the whole body in mind. Learning how to avoid compartmentalized exercises—and what to do instead—can help support the health and healing of your hip joints.
Many exercises can overstretch the hip joint while at the same time creating weakness in the back muscles, hamstrings, and glutes. Using breath-based neuromuscular repatterning techniques, you will learn to correct posture habits while strengthening the whole body in balanced tension.
These exercises tone the deep intrinsic muscles and build strong back muscles and glutes beginning with the first session. Even the arch muscles in the feet become stronger using these techniques, and strong arches in the feet help support alignment and stability throughout the legs and hip joints.
Learn how to engage your whole body during any exercise and support your hip joints with specialized, focused breathing exercises that create lift and support in the torso, helping to alleviate pressure on the hip joints.
Habits such as forward head carriage and locking the knees while standing can drive force into the hip joint. You will learn how to sit and stand in ways that keep the hip joints aligned and decompressed, creating healthier movement and posture habits you can use throughout your daily life.
Replacing or repairing a part of the body with surgery does not necessarily address the global posture patterns that can be at the root of FAI and hip deterioration.
Even if you do have surgery, or have already had one, you can learn to correct the posture habits that contribute to hip joint deterioration.