“How can I sit in my car to avoid hip pain?”

Hello and good morning. I hope you are well. Thanks for sharing your hip question with the FATD community. Please allow me to offer my tips, suggestions and thoughts regarding your question. Are you sure your pain is not coming from your lower back? Sitting puts a lot of pressure on your lower back, and stresses the postural muscles around your lower back. Therefore, sometimes hip pain is more like buttock pain which is due to the nerves being irritated in your lower back. However, if the pain is in the groin area, then it could be hip pain. I am a firm believer in exercise as a way to lower your feeling of pain in your muscles, bones and joints. The right exercise done at the right time, and done the right way, is THE key to alleviating pain and preserving your hip (and lower back function for a very long time - forever?). As we age, the normal activities of life can put low-grade stress on the small joints of the lower back, and those of the hip (the area of the lower back where the bones -vertebrae- connect to each other and permit motion). Therefore, having occasional hip (and lower back) pain and loss of function is normal. In addition, the fatigue of the muscles of your abdomen and lower back (the postural muscles) occurs with prolonged sitting (in a car, or anywhere). I believe in daily stretching and range of motion activities for the hip. The following link is to some great exercises. I think that you first want to regain full active and range of motion (active is moving your neck on your own, and passive motion involves using your hand or a pillow/towel to do the moving). After motion, then increase the action with flexibility and then shape (tone) and strengthen-condition. https://www.pop-doc.com/browse.cgi?category1=Hip If you work the neck a lot during one day, I recommend that you let the neck area recover for a day or two before working it again. I hope this helps.

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