I have a niggling hip and I’ve tried various stretches etc and have reduced my distance but it’s still there in the background. It doesn’t hurt when I run just later and sometimes wakes me at night.
Can I ask when people are going to see physios are they going to private physio consultation s or through the NHS. As I can’t seem to get to actually see a physio in person on the NHS. Any advise gratefully received 🙏🙏
I have also had a niggly hip in the last few weeks and booked an appointment with a sports physio, it was a private practice rather than NHS, as it turned out i didn't need the appointment in the end.I did however speak to him on the phone !
In my case he told me not to stop running but reduce the distance to keep it comfortable , so I was doing 3.5 or 3 k (incidentally, he is an extreme marathon runner)
I was also doing clamshell exercises with a resistance band and he told me to continue with them , I have since been niggle free and managed a 10k again last week and it was symptom free .
Hopefully you will also recover soon 🤞
Great thank you so much for taking the time to get back to me 🙏🙏
I was just looking at your post and saw what you were saying about dodgy hip which mine has been playing up. Will try this exercise clamshell and reduce my running short runs and see if this will help. 🙏
Sorry to hear you are suffering. Thank you for asking your question as I am having trouble with a knee, and I was wondering about how one finds a sports physiotherapist .
I’m not too sure either so watch my replies and 🤞we’llboth find out 🤣
I just did a Google search and found one 12 minutes drive from where I live and luckily he is a runner as well
I’ve seen a sports physio but privately; we can self refer to NHS physios and get a phone consultation- I have done that and it was quite thorough but clearly not as good as seeing someone in person. Like Instructor57 the clamshell with resistance band was one of my exercises and it did seem to help. I’m now doing single leg raises and single leg squats as well - not very elegantly but they seem to be working as well! Good luck with finding a physio!
Thank you for the info. I think I’ll try to get to see someone 🙏🙏🙏
Niggly hips are not nice and they come in all shapes and sizes, from the needling ouch to the full on ache.
I guess it depends on whether yours feel like a muscle/tendon niggle or a joint niggle and for how long it’s been going on? (Some time I think 🤔?)
Err on the side of caution as to how much you do just now - you’ll best know your limits. Google for a sports physio near to you and check out their reviews/qualifications before signing up for a session. Many are now offering face-to-face consultations, which would probably suit you best. I hope you get fixed up soon 😊
Like Instructor57, I have found clamshell exercises really helpful. When my hip was first diagnosed as arthritic I could hardly get in and out of the car. The gym really helped, but when it closed for lockdown I needed to find an alternative and clamshell exercises fitted the bill. I do them without a resistance band, but I might try them with. Hope all these suggestions help, but if not see your doctor again. You don't need pain keeping you awake at night
I've been using an online sports physio as there are none near me. She has been really helpful - the whole online process has surpassed my expectations. I did plenty of careful research - qualifications/reviews/bricks and mortar practice too, that sort of thing. So worth looking in to if you don't have a local practitioner. Good luck - I hope you manage to sort your niggles out.
Thank you. I’ll try a few of these exercises and see how I go before I find a physio. 🙏🙏😀😀
My injury came out of the blue with no prior niggles. A painful hip forced me to stop half way through a 10k run.I managed to find a sports physiotherapist and was lucky enough to have a face to face consultation last week. I spoke to him again on the telephone this evening.
It turns out I have gluteal tendinothapy so, not really anything to do with my hip, even though that is where I feel the pain.
I now have a strengthening program with a real focus on rehabilitation. The exercises include clamshells and unilateral glute bridges.
I found this guy by looking on the web - he's not a runner but is a qualified Sports Therapist who has worked with the ladies teams of Premiership football clubs as well as at London Marathon. Obviously this is privately funded but I would seriously encourage you to do that, if you are able to afford it. In my humble opinion, you really need to see someone with solid experience of sporting injuries.Good luck - and have a speedy recovery
🙏🙏🙏👍I’ll try these. And hopefully it will relief the pain 🤞🤞
I've been on a 12 week rehab program of exercises to help with high hamstring/ glute tendonopathy. It has been very slow to really improve. Every time I go back to run it strikes again. Only recently I have started back at 2- 3 k easy and it seems to be ok with that.Hopefully you will get on top of it sooner than me.🤞
🤞🤞🤞we’ll both get there. I’m reluctant to stop runnning as I’m not sure that makes it any worse than walking but hopefully we’ll both get back to enjoying our runs 🙏🙏
Oh dear. I have read that it can take a fair while to resolve. Mine seems a lot better but it remains to be seen what will happen when I try to run by again.I hope things are still headed in the right direction, even if slowly
I had ongoing hip pain that didn't effect runs but I could hardly walk up the stairs afterwards! I was referred to physio after an x ray to rule anything else out. He got me doing various exercises to build up core strength. Leg raises with resistance band and single leg deadlifts. Also one leg planks and side planks. I was able to carry on running too. It took a while but I've been pain free for ages now and still keep up the exercises. They've been as life changing for me as taking up running was and totally changed my body. It was well worth waiting for the help and then putting the effort in to work through it. I hope you get it sorted out!
Thanks for this info I’ll try these together with the clamshells. And see how I go. 🙏🙏👍👍😀😀
Those clamshells and side planks and single leg planks etc are all great exercises I was given by my doctor when I had hip bursitis, but I had forgotten them. Everyone's references to them made me dig them out again. I shall start doing them in the hope that it will sort out my knee problem, which more and more u am tending to think it is not coming from the knee at all, but the hip. Thank you all for your help and to Scruff55 for raising the issue.
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Hi there,
I suffered hip pain 2 months ago when reaching 20 min runs Week 6 .
I first took like one week off as I could feel pain more like discomfort even when walking and I could not sleep on the side that was painful.
The pain during the run came back after 20 min into the run .
I found a video on a running site some runners had been advising for hip niggles.
I did it twice a day ,before or after a run or before bedtime and I felt instant relief.
I pain free now and I’m sure this exercises worked wonders.
It is in French but just follow the moves and it is only 10 min sessions
Hope this helps just like it did for me
Those look excellent. Could you tell us the website so we can find it ourselves please. Oh its OK just saw the utube link !!!
Hope this helps. When you are familiar with the movements, try and hold the stretches a bit longer especially the one that with the knee holding. I am now doing consolidation runs and can run for 30/33 minutes and pain has not returned.
The pain at night is nearly gone.It felt like having some extra weight on the hip,left hip in my case.
Good luck to you
Hi Scuff55. It is very difficult to get hands on physio at the moment in the NHS because of Covid. I work next to physio department and they mostly do telephone advice. So like you I had a hip problem and decided to go private because the pain would wake me up too and I couldn’t sleep on that side.Anyway I went to see a sports injury therapist. Long story short, what I thought was hip was not all hip. It was pain around the glute/hipmuscle. I had deep tissue massage(not for the faint hearted). A few weeks of that along with hip flexors, clamshell, side leg raisers and squats twice a day. Each exercise 3 sets of ten. Also short runs.
Hey presto, problem resolved. I swear by the exercises and do a full set before every run as part of my warm up.
I hope this helps. Good luck 😊
week3run1 ✅. 3 x 17 mins with 1 min walks. 
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