Do I Need Hip Surgery?

What Happens When You Are Not Using Conservative Treatment Methods (as Outlined Above)

Soft Tissue Injuries of the hip (this also includes injuries to the upper leg and lower back) are all injuries that cannot really be ignored. If you choose to ignore the injury, then this means you will still be be trying to do certain tasks (ie. using a fork, putting on your seat belt, etc) using soft tissue (strained and/or partially torn ligaments & tendons) that is already compromised. This means it will inevitably get worse.

Here is what to expect:
• Since the tissue is still inflamed, lack of proper blood flow will drop your healing rate to a crawl.
• Continually straining the soft tissue (just by doing daily tasks such as cooking or driving) worsens the injury and will introduce more scar tissue.
• Increased scar tissue buildup will tighten the soft tissue in your hip, decreasing your already limited flexibility.(reduced range of motion)
  If you suffer from a painful hip injury, this means that when you get out of bed in the morning and try to walk, crouch or climb stairs, it will hurt a LOT - this is due to reduced flexibility in your core and upper legs.

Since the ligaments/tendons of the hip cannot flex as much as they once did, trying to use it during your simple daily routine just introduces more scar tissue and continuously worsens the injury. As you can see, this is a cycle that can easily become worse and worse, eventually becoming a chronic (long term) injury. This is the cycle you need to stop or you will probably wind up having surgery once your injury becomes chronic.

The Absence of Pain Does Not Mean Your Injury is Gone

After most of our clients use a Cold Compress or Ice Pack as instructed, the hip pain eventually decreases significantly. This where most people wrongly associate the pain with the injury, whereas in truth, a lot of the pain really came from the inflammation and swelling. Once the inflammation is gone, do not assume you are fully healed.

Time Is Not Your Friend

So you have used cold compression and most of the pain is gone, but it's been a couple of months and the injury keeps flaring up. If this is you, then you probably know why this is happening now... the injury was never full healed. To really heal a hip injury, you need to rest until it is healed, and you don't need me to tell you this is a pain in the butt! This is why the Back/Hip TShellz Wrap is such an important tool. The whole purpose of this wrap is to try and get you back on your feet in a short time span and avoid the re-injury cycle.

When the swelling has gone down and the pain has reduced, this is the perfect time to use the Back/Hip TShellz Wrap. A treatment with the Back/Hip TShellz Wrap will substantially increase blood-flow to the treatment area - it is basically intended to maximize the natural ability of your body to self heal. We also highly recommend that our clients treat themselves with the TShellz Wrap^® first thing in the morning before getting out of bed. This is important, as we have already shown (Chapter 9 of "Therapeutic Heat and Cold", 4th edition. amazon.com link - Ed. Justus F. Lehmann, M.D., Williams, and Wilkin) that heat will increase elasticity and flexibility in ligaments, muscles and tendons of the hip; it will decrease the chance of re-straining these ligaments and tendons at their most vulnerable time - after a long period of inactivity. With increased flexibility in an injured hip, you will have a reduced risk of further injury (or re-injury if some healing has already occurred).

If our body is designed to heal our own injuries, why does it take so long to heal?

When we have an injured ligament, muscle, tendon or bursa, this means the tissue is damaged. Your body responds to this damage with healing right away. During this healing process the injured tissue spasms. These spasms are contractions, and are meant to hold the tissue still to prevent any further injury.

Swelling and inflammation is your body's way of:
• Creating localized pain to tell you something is wrong there and to stop moving it, and
• Sending blood to the area to start healing. Healing at this point will also expand the blood vessels in the injured tissue - they enlarge and swell causing you pain. This pain is a signal for you to lessen activity that would put anymore undue stress on your hip.

However, there is are significant problem with swelling and inflammation with regard to healing rate. Once soft tissue is inflamed, blood-flow is restricted. The body heals itself by sending nutrients through the blood to the injured tissue, and if the injured tissue is swollen, the blood-flow is greatly decreased.

Decreased blood-flow to injured tissue, prevents the damaged tissue from healing as fast as it would if the area wasn't swollen.

The other issue is that swelling is also very painful. With many conditions, once you get rid of the inflammation, a lot of the pain will disappear as well.

Once the Pain is Gone, We Think Our Soft Tissue Injury is Healed.

So we start using it more and more for common tasks, and then "boom" we get a sharp pain and then it starts all over. When this happens, the injury was never fully healed - and now it is worse! More scar tissue grows in the new tissue micro-tears and well, lets talk about scar tissue.

Scar Tissue - We Need It For Kick-Starting Tissue Tear Repair
But After That It is Nasty Stuff

Tendons, ligaments, muscle and other soft tissue in the hip are all meant to be soft and flexible, ready to work and move extreme forces in everyday activities. When I say extreme force, I mean try to imagine the amount of forces that your hip handles, even when just walking, let alone jumping or running.

Scar tissue grows in damaged tissue when it tries to heal; little tiny band-aids that overlap each other to bind tiny tissue tears together. With this added scar tissue, muscles & tendons & ligaments become rigid, less flexible and unable to handle the forces that it once could. If you're suffering with scar tissue now you may feel the effects with stiffness, tightness, weakness and tiredness in your hip.

Scar tissue can form fast to bring together the edges of a tear, but working fast doesn't mean that the job's done right. When scar tissue forms it doesn't come together as neatly as regular (healthy) tissue would. Scar tissue fibers will lay down over top of your tear in a cluttered, messy and jumbled up way.

On-going issues with scar tissue can result in soft tissue tears and increase chances of strain to nearby tendons or ligaments (as they are now handling higher forces due to overcompensation).

Scar tissue is one of the MAIN reasons why a chronic hip injury has not healed and your Range of Motion (ROM) is reduced from what it once was.

Scar tissue will form fast to deal with a soft tissue injury, and this scar tissue will attach to everything in the area, including surrounding healthy tissue. This can result in a fusing together of the soft tissue in your hip that shouldn't be fused together, and this will cause extreme pain when you move the joint - it is literally ripping scar tissue. This is why physical therapy is often painful - the therapist stretches the joint, forcing the scar tissue bonds to break so you can regain your range of motion.

Scar tissue is a significant problem when it comes to a hip injury - potentially causing your injury to become chronic, and then taking months or even YEARS to completely heal!

You can help reduce the impact and growth of scar tissue and reduce risk of further injury to your hip muscles/tendons/ligaments by adding a Back/Hip TShellz Wrap treatment to the area. It is a simple, non intrusive way to assist your body in its recovery effort at home.

When applied before activity or work, the TShellz Wrap will also relax and lengthen your soft tissue to help improve your range of motion and prevent atrophy (tissue wasting & shortening) of your injured hip.

Overall, continued treatment with a TShellz Wrap will maintain good health in your soft tissue and significantly reduce your risk of re-injury.

• Once the swelling is gone (usually after applying cold compression to the injury over 24 to 72 hr period).
• BEFORE getting out of bed in the morning. BEFORE going to bed at night.
• BEFORE exercise, workouts or activity of any kind to increase elasticity of hip tendons, ligaments and muscles and decrease the chance of re-injury.
• AFTER surgery (once the skin wound has healed over) to increase post-surgery healing rate and minimize scar tissue growth at the surgery location.
• Anytime BEFORE you feel you might undertake activity that will put significant strain on the injury area.

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Soft tissue injuries of the hip are common and can happen to anyone. Right now there are thousands of doctors and physical therapists dealing with patients that require a solution to treat their hip injury fast and heal it (where possible). If you want to be pro-active about properly addressing your hip injury by using the best conservative treatments, then you need to use MendMyHip's system utilizing TShellz Wraps^® and accessory products.