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Whether your injury came from sudden trauma or developed over time, once bursitis develops, recovery from Hip Bursitis pain requires your attention. Every day with every step, your hip carries a huge load and the repetitive motion through the day can aggravate your condition. In the early days of recovery, try to rest your hip as much as possible.
It's important to note that Hip Bursitis is a symptom of another underlying injury in your hip. In trying to heal and protect the underlying injury your body produces a protective liquid in your bursa called 'synovial fluid'. The fluid seeps out into your hip joint to lubricate neighboring tissue. It also swells up the bursa, to act as a protective pillow, next to the neighboring tissue that is really what's injured. This sac gets bigger and bigger and becomes your swollen bursa which is what 'bursitis' means. The best treatments not only reduce the pain and swelling of the bursa, but also treat the underlying injury so the problem goes away for good. Treating the painful lump alone does not solve the problem. You have to treat the damaged tissue too.
Understanding your hip pain is crucial for effective recovery. The following common causes can lead to Hip Bursitis, hip tendon and ligament tears, and other hip-related injuries.
Typically, people recognize when this type of injury occurs. Whether it was due to a fall, overexertion, or moving the wrong way, it is usually accompanied by intense pain in the moment that continues to persist over time. The good news is that if your hip problems are the result of sudden injury, you just need to take the proper steps to recover, and it likely won't plague you again.
This is a super common scenario when it comes to Hip Bursitis. When you drop your exercise levels, your tendons thin out and become weaker. When you attempt to resume your normal activity, you're much more vulnerable to straining a ligament or tendon. Returning to activity too quickly can lead to a localized tear or other serious complications.
This cause of injury may not be as obvious. This is typical of people who are very active and pushing their body more to its limits. Repetitive strain is a lot of motion under an unusually heavy load. The excess load can damage hip tissue and lead to swollen hip bursa pain.
Isometric Strain means staying in one position for a long time while a part of your body is being strained.
This is a sneaky cause that people don't realize when it's happening because it doesn't hurt at the time - it catches up to you later.
It may be how you sit with your legs crossed.
It may be how you sleep with your hip twisted.
Maybe it's how you stand for long periods of time without changing positions.
These kinds of lack of motion can damage strained ligaments and tendons, and bursitis can develop over time as a result.
Your bursitis is your body trying to build a pillow to protect the area.
This one surprises a lot of people. Antibiotics are prescribed for good reason and if your doctor prescribes them, you should definitely use them. Antibiotics can cause tendonitis to occur randomly in the body. If you have been taking antibiotics, and maintained a modest activity level while you were on them, this may have caused your underlying hip injury.
Stretching and Exercise are great for muscles and it can be for tendons when done properly at the correct time.
If you have hip bursitis and you are trying to stretch and exercise it back to health you are only making the situation worse.
At any time, if you feel any pain during any exercise or stretch, Stop immediately.
If the stretch or exercise causes no pain at all, you may be okay with that activity.
Generally, when you have an injury that is still painful, exercise and stretching really only put you at more risk of reinjury.
You are better off resting until the hip pain subsides, and only after the pain is gone work on strength and range of motion.
Sadly, the Internet is full of misinformation today. There are so many bad treatments suggested for hip injuries online, it's crazy. In many cases you are being told to try treatments that can actually make your condition worse! Among these are stretches, exercises, elastic sleeves, pain creams, and several types of injections. For a rundown of dangerous and ineffective solutions to beware of, check out our Hip Bursitis Treatment Myths Page.
Your Hip is large and pretty tough and it's not that easy to hurt it in the first place.
Regardless of which reason above caused the initial injury, once it is injured, the path back can sometimes be difficult.
For most people, it's not feasible to just stop everything and rest.
So for most people, as fast as your body is attempting to heal the underlying injury, your daily activity is causing reinjury.
You rest and take a couple steps forward in the healing process, and then you do some activity that sends you a couple steps backward, undoing the healing that you just did.
It is a vicious cycle that needs to be corrected if the injury has been plaguing you for some time.
Hip Bursitis is often what develops when you had an initial injury that healed a bit and got reinjured, and that cycle has repeated for a long time.
That pain you feel when you do activities, or perhaps it shows up afterwards, is a clear indication that you are moving the healing process backward.
Pain in your hip means you are reinjuring your hip.
It's that simple.
There's no such thing as "driving through the pain" or pain being any kind of good sign when you are dealing with a hip injury.
What is causing the pain is also causing your Hip Bursitis to continue.
Some people will be surprised to realize that things they have been doing that they thought would help are actually making the condition worse.
Are you stretching it to help it heal and it hurts a bit during the stretch?
Are you doing exercises to strengthen it and they hurt?
Does your physio hurt?
If any of these things cause pain in your hip at the time you're doing them, or afterwards, that pain means they are doing more damage than good.
Exercise, stretching and physio can be good, but only if they don't involve pain.
Driving through the pain is always bad.
Yes, it's impossible to stop all activity since you need to move to get through your day.
Sometimes you're going to do something that hurts.
That can't be avoided.
But you definitely want to minimize the things that cause you pain.
You want to make the backward steps of the healing process as few and as small as possible.
That's usually enough to let you heal.
If you don't want to wait, then there are also things you can do to make the steps forward in the healing process as big as possible.
There are products available that you need to have to heal quickly, and relieve pain quickly. To stimulate blood flow for faster healing, you need the BFST® Back and Hip Wrap. For immediate pain relief and to reduce swelling, you need a ColdCure® Back and Hip Wrap.
Surgery for your Hip Bursitis is rarely necessary. If you have a complete tear of a ligament or tendon in your hip, you may need surgery to repair it. In all other circumstances, if you are just suffering from tendonitis or a partial tear, your body will heal naturally with the right tools. The King Brand BFST® and ColdCure® Hip Wraps will help you recover quickly. If you do have to have surgery, they will accelerate the healing process post-surgery.
Do this and your Hip Bursitis can truly heal - finally.
For full assurance these products work, see our Reviewed Technology page.
You don't have to wait. You can heal much more quickly with the right treatment. For Hip Bursitis, blood flow is the most critical element in rapid recovery. Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy® (BFST®) gives your injured hip the blood flow it needs to heal quickly and completely.
Blood flow brings oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the injured area - a requirement for the body to heal itself. Unfortunately, an injured hip at rest often has restricted blood flow, which in turn limits the body's ability to heal. Physical activity will promote blood flow but all too often it also results in small but frequent re-injury, which extends your healing time. With a King Brand® BFST® Back and Hip Wrap, blood flow can be stimulated in the injured area while you are at rest. With improved blood flow and without physical activity and the risk of re-injury, you can recover from your Hip Bursitis at a surprisingly rapid rate.
If you're wanting to just stick with the most essential piece, the BFST® Back and Hip Wrap is your best choice.
This Class II medical device actively stimulates healing deep in your hip to get you on the mend ASAP!
As is, this device plugs into a wall outlet for 20 minute sessions of comfortable soothing Blood Flow Stimulation.
To stimulate healing, it is really all you need.
Treat yourself in the morning and at night and before any strenuous activity and your healing process will happen as fast as possible.
To minimize pain and swelling, complete a ColdCure® treatment any time your pain level increases, or if you have been active. The ColdCure® Hip Wrap provides superior relief of the swelling and pain that comes with Hip Bursitis. ColdCure® Back and Hip Wraps use cold and compression together, because cold and compression are the two things you need to eliminate pain and swelling as quickly and effectively as possible 1 / 2. The application of cold compression must be uniform and complete if it's going to work the best.3 / 4 This is why the ColdCure® Hip Wrap has been custom designed to perfectly fit the curves of your hip, to ensure that your injury receives an even distribution of cooling power.
ColdCure® Hip Wrap - Stop the Pain
If your biggest issue is the pain, then you definitely want the ColdCure® wrap. The ColdCure® Back and Hip Wrap comes with 3 swappable cold packs that contain our unique XC RigiGel® formula. This isn't that 'blue goo' that you get from the drug store, no way. This is super gel. It holds tons more cold and stays cold much longer. It's ice that bends like rubber. It's amazing. The elasticized wrap holds the cold firmly in place against your injury sucking away the pain while it gently reduces swelling. If pain is your #1 concern, this is your #1 solution. With extra gel packs included you can treat the pain over and over again, never running out of ice.
Your hip moves a lot through the day, and when your injury develops bursitis, you feel every little movement.
You can't stop everything and wait for your Hip Bursitis to go away, so let's provide some support for your hip, without taking away your range of motion.
Support Tape™ is designed to protect your tendons, ligaments and muscles and help prevent further damage as you go through your day.
It does this all without restricting your range of motion.
Our skin is soft and elastic and can stretch much more than the tissue underneath.
When you apply Support Tape™ to your skin, it becomes a much more rigid surface than before; serving to limit how much the skin can stretch.
Support Tape™ makes your skin a source of outside support to hold your tissue in place, helping you avoid re-injury.24 25
That's why we call it armor for your injury.
Support Tape™ - Protection from Re-Injury
Too busy to be injured? Have to keep going? Then Support Tape™ is your "must have".
Constant re-injury is often the biggest reason the underlying hip injury doesn't heal.
It heals when at rest but when you get back on the move, the injury gets worse.
Athletes are always taped up.
That's to prevent against re-injury while they are active.
And Support Tape™ is the best for that purpose.
Taping is very underappreciated and very effective.
If you have to keep moving, you have to tape.
There's one big difference between King Brand Support Tape and regular kinesiology tapes and athletic tapes you find in the drug stores.
King Brand tape is medical grade; all those others are athletic grade.
The difference is that medical grade tape is designed to be worn all day long, day after day, like when you're dealing with Hip Bursitis.
They may look the same, but the materials are entirely different.
Athletic tape is designed for occasional, temporary use - maybe an hour or two at a time, every now and then.
The materials in Athletic tape can be toxic to your skin with prolonged exposure leading to rashes and tissue damage.
Many are even carcinogenic.
King Brand medical tape is designed for long term repeated use like you will use it treating your hip.
Choose wisely and stay safe.
KB Support Tape™ comes in 2 different sizes: 2-inch wide and 3-inch wide.
We recommend the 3 inch wide tape for Hip Bursitis.
When applied in an X-shape or T-shape over the injured area, it supplies more than twice the support than using regular 3" tapes.
The difference is big when it comes to protecting the injury.
The 3 inch wide tape is 16 feet long and comes in either Beige or Black.
There is no functional difference between the colors, they just allow you to express your personal style.
We've briefly covered 7 common reasons people are plagued by Hip Bursitis. There's lots more information available. You can explore the Quick Links menu at the very bottom of the screen - they all contain more informaton about the condition. Here are some of the popular pages:
