If you have hip pain, whether it's a new condition or something that you've been struggling

with on and off for months or even years, you can be really challenging to figure out

what to do.

There's often this really circuitous route to care when it comes to joints and hips, meaning

you end up going to your general practitioner who may or may not refer you for a scan,

you may or may not end up with a physio, you may get one to three sessions covered.

It's really complicated.

There's a lot of responsibility left on you and then you're supposed to figure out what

to do.

It can be really challenging.

One of the things that is abundantly clear is that movement is medicine.

We need to move to heal, whether those are physiotherapy, like corrective exercises,

whether that's walking, whether that's resistance training, likely a combination of all of those

things.

Then the question is for how long and can we follow through, it all gets really overwhelming.

When it comes to your joint health, today we'll talk about our hips.

But the same thing is relevant for your hips, for your knees or your spine or your shoulders.

For better or worse, you really do have to take full control, which means educating

yourself, taking agency when you go into the doctor and really being an advocate for yourself.

On the positive side of that is if you're willing to do that and if you're willing to

commit to corrective exercises and experimenting and speaking up and researching, there is

very often a light at the end of the tunnel for people who are proactive.

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