Are you struggling with hip trochanteric bursitis? In this video, we’ll show you some simple exercises that can help alleviate the pain and heal this common hip injury. Say goodbye to discomfort and get back to your daily activities with these easy and effective exercises.

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How Common Is Hip Impingement?
Femoroacetabular Impingement can happen in many different sports and athletes of different genders. Normally it is found in higher correlation with athletic populations in predominately young, white athletes with normal basal metabolic index (BMI). We use to believe it was a condition men would only get but women are not immune from it by any means.1 This is probably because girls take part in more youth sports than now.

CAM deformities have been found to develop in highly active young athletes, more so than non-athletic ones.

Development of a CAM deformity can be correlated with high activity levels where the growth plate of the femur has not totally closed. Typically, athletes will experience lack of the abduction, flexion and rotation from the CAM.

What sports are safe for these CAM athletes?
Logic would lead us to believe that the more we require the athlete to be forced into the pinched motion, the more damage to the joint. This can lead to labral tears and femoroacetabular impingement. The CAM deformity decreases the athlete’s ability to move the hip into flexion, adduction, and internal rotation. Take a look at the motions required by the sport and see if these motions are needed to high degrees.

Some sports you should be aware of are:

Golf
Baseball
Tennis
Lacrosse
Gymnastics
Ballet, and other types of dance
Hip Pain Baseball
In the past, many clinicians have felt femoroacetabular impingement was idiopathic, or that it arose spontaneously.

Yet studies have continually shown a higher association in athletic populations than in non-athletic populations, which leads us to believe that there are other correlating factors. One study noted around 55% of all patients are female with the typical surgical age of 28. 2,3

A recent systematic review found that there is a higher correlation of CAM deformity in athletes participating in high impact sports (i.e. basketball, hockey and soccer) over non-athletes. 3

A radiology study showed a correlation of CAM deformity development in youth soccer players whose growth plates are still open.

High prevalence of CAM deformities were found via x-ray in these kids even after initial x-rays showed no signs of CAM development two years earlier.

Overhead athletes are especially high risk due to the need of larger energy motions of the hip.

This demand on the hip can lead to labral tears and increase symptoms of CAM deformity.

Logic says our young athletes involved in club sports and year round programs will have a higher potential of CAM deformities than those who take breaks, or change sports.

Hip Injuries in Major League Baseball
Noteworthy players in Major League Baseball with hip injuries:

Josh Beckett – Femoroacetabular Impingement
Devin Mesoraco – Femoroacetabular Impingement, possible labral tear
Alex Rodriquez – Femoroacetabular Impingement from a CAM deformity
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Josh Beckett Hip Impingement
With Josh Beckett being a pitcher, there is a large need for a normal functioning hip with normal range of motion, strength, and power.

While analyzing Beckett’s outings where he complained of hip pain, his reports of pain were commonly made during the later innings when his command and control decreased. More pitches went up in the zone to the glove side.

These findings are not uncommon for pitchers that use less legs/ hips in their delivery4. They are depending upon more of the upper body for their velocity. Because of this, pitchers unable to use their legs/hips can, and probably will, develop shoulder injuries, such as rotator cuff tears and SLAP tears.

Do not continue to pitch without knowing how to use your lower body.

You will only experience low velocity, less command, more frustration and more shoulder pain as time goes on. Shoulder injuries in pitchers typically develop from lack of proper deceleration.

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31 Comments

  1. This is such great & simple information..after pushing so hard to the point of slight injury, it nice to be gentle towards myself by doing something as simple as this. Why is it so intriguingly exciting to see you explain this in that tight fitting suit..reminds me of Spider Man’s cousin 😉🙏👍

  2. I've had this for a year now, I go to physio and got prescribed naproxin but it upsets my stomach when used for over a month. I'm in absolute agony at bed time in particular I can't seem to get it to go away at all 😢

  3. What does resting it for 5 days actually mean? Can I go for walks? Sitting and the typical idea of “resting” makes my hips and low back hurt even worse.

  4. I have felt like my leg was on fire the last week sleeping about 2 hours a night melting ice packs on my leg and just doing this for a minute gave me some relief! Not cured but relief thank you!

  5. I have felt like I have had a band around my hips for a while. I started a new job and I am walking more. Sometimes I have stabbing spasms if I cross my legs

  6. I was doing water aerobic at 11 and by 6 pm pain went to be bed pain from hip to shoulder in my left side. I can’t walk. I had to get my Cane. I haven’t used in 3 yrs. School starts in 3wks such pain

  7. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. After couple months of pain, been told I’ve got bursitis. How long should I do the exercise before I can return to the gym. Really miss the gym and playing badminton.

  8. Thank you very much. I just developed this very painful condition but I wouldn’t rest at all… I was thinking it was arthritis and so I was up and about but after a week of prayer, home made pain rub and remaining active, it subsided. Thank God

  9. I’m having hips bursitis right now and I’m doing that exercise in the morning and before bed. It really does help … I’m getting better… I was using canes for 2 months before I started doing that exercise. I was supposed to get my shot but the doctor told me I was getting better and don’t need it. I will not stop doing this exercise… I am 67 years old.

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