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All You Want To Know About Hip (Trochaneric) Bursitis

4/7/2017

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What is Hip (Trochanteric) Bursitis?

A bursa is a sac positioned where the muscles and tendons pass over the bones in a joint. The sac contains a lubricating fluid which cushions and provides for lubrication of the joint.
Trochanteric Bursitis is experienced as pain in the hip or buttock that can run down the outside of the leg, even down to the knee. Putting stress on the bursa, by moving the hip joint, putting weight on it through walking, running or laying on the effected side can increase the level of pain. There could be some swelling or redness around the area.
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By Dr. Johannes Sobotta - Sobotta's Atlas and Text-book of Human Anatomy 1909,

What causes Hip (Trochanteric) Bursitis?

Trochanteric Bursitis can be caused by repetitive trauma through excessive walking, running or cycling, where muscles or tendons have been rubbing over the Trochanteric Bursa causing too much friction. If posture, gait or running technique is incorrect, the Bursa is more likely to become inflamed since the muscles or tendons will not be rubbing over the Bursa as they should.
A fall or sudden impact through sports may also damage the Bursa and cause Hip Bursitis.
Other diseases such as arthritis, calcium deposits in the tendons, weak hip muscles or a tight ITB that leads to improper posture can also cause Trochanteric Bursitis.

When to Seek Treatment for Hip Bursitis?

As with most conditions, earlier treatment will allow a faster recovery and reduce the chance of re-occurance. Also, as somebody with hip pain starts to walk differently, other parts of their body (ie. back) can go out of alignment too from improper gait.

Bowen Treatment for bursas may be very effective at reducing the pain, and significantly improve the rate of healing.

Without treatment and continuing the activity that is aggravating the bursa, the pain will likely get worse. Tendons or muscles rubbing over a damaged bursa that no longer provides protection or lubrication may also become damaged.

You can read some reviews from our clients on the Review page here, or Book Online here for a Bowen Therapy Treatment for Hip Bursitis in Geelong.
2 Comments
melissa merett link
10/2/2022 08:46:12 am

Thanks Louis, this is really informative. You mentioned in the Bowen therapy worldwide group about ruling out the issue being the ball of femur in acetabulum, that it is good to assess and correct. Can you please let me know how you can assess and correct this issue? Many thanks in advance.

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Louis Attard link
10/2/2022 11:16:22 am


Hey Melissa, thanks for your comment.

I think you are actually referring to John Garfields comment on the Facebook discussion we had about this blog post, you might want to ask him for more details, however I will share my approach. So the acetabulum is simply the socket that the ball of the femur or leg bone sits in and rotates, like a ball and socket joint. From my understanding, John does lots of physical assessments and works to correct those problems that he finds. I usually treat differently using the nervous system as my guide, once the nervous system is balanced, all the muscles that hold the hip structures such as acetabulum and femur in their relative positions, along with so many other structures, will automatically be corrected since it is the nervous system that controls how everything in the body sits and how it all works too. So in summary just about every problem inside the body is coupled with a nervous system problem, because the brain and nerves are involved in instructing the body to do something incorrectly and so therefore the pain. Rather than me searching for every little physical problem I focus on correcting the nervous system and then once working properly the nervous system will correctly control the whole body and the physical problem / pain will go away. It's a very effective approach you can learn from Graham Penningham.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Louis

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