Hip pain
Are you experiencing hip pain during squats?
Below are a few tips you might find helpful.
Before you start your journey to recovery, understand more about your pain here →
Quick tips for squatting with hip pain
If you have hip pain, lifters (weightlifting shoes) can help to keep your trunk more upright. This helps to reduce over activation/ shortening of the hip flexors.
Rather than cutting squats out completely try squatting to a box so that your depth is controlled. It also gives you the opportunity to keep the trunk more upright and again reduce excessive pressure over the hip flexors.
If it is just a specific load that triggers your symptoms, lower the weight to a point that pain is no more than mild/ tolerable and work on squat pauses or controlled eccentric technique.
Lower Body and trunk Strength
Having symmetry in your lower limb strength is helpful to reducing hip pain when squatting.
P+R Physiotherapy specialises in guiding you through ways to build strength, without pain. Whether you are a experienced weightlifter or a complete novice you will learn simple ways to stay strong to recover faster and reduce future soft tissue injuries.
Lower body mobility
Pain in the hip when squatting may be linked to restriction or tension around the ankle, knee, hip or trunk.
P+R Physiotherapy will assess and guide you through personalised mobility routines that can help optimise your performance and reduce pain.
Yoga
Thank you Jade Cole - Yoga’na Flow, for letting me share this brilliant flow for the hips and spine.
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