How To Stop Hip Pain With Rolfing Structural Integration

(0:00) In today’s video we’re going to talk about hip pain –
(0:04) different types of hip pain, how to tell which type you have,
(0:07) and how structural integration
(0:11) addresses hip pain and how can resolve hip pain.
(0:14) So as we’ve been talking about before
(0:17) most of the pain issues that we’ve talked about,
(0:21) from back to neck to shoulder to
(0:24) ankle, have all had to do with
(0:27) structural and muscular imbalances between
(0:31) the agonist antagonist muscles –
(0:35) the front and the back, the inside and the outside or
(0:38) permutations of those. The hip is no different.
(0:42) People have hip pain
(0:46) in their buttock they have hip pain
(0:49) in the joint itself, they have hip pain in the front,
(0:52) they have sacroiliac pain, and they’ll have
(0:55) often pain in the groin. Any of those
(0:59) can be resolved with structural integration. So
(1:03) the first is to determine which type of pain
(1:06) you have. Now, in the
(1:09) first session of structural integration, I’ll be working
(1:13) in your hip area. This is the classic first session of structural integration. I’ll be
(1:19) working in the hip area. I’ll be working on your
(1:21) gluteal muscles. I’ll probably touch into some your deep rotators. I’ll touch into
(1:26) your iliotibial band here. I’ll touch into a little bit of
(1:30) the front of the pelvis here, perhaps. If you come into me and
(1:34) you tell me specifically you’re here for a pain, I’ll probably work
(1:38) wherever I need to work to resolve that pain
(1:41) temporarily during the first session. Now
(1:44) what’s key to understand about any of these
(1:48) is that there’s temporary relief and there’s long-term relief.
(1:51) The reason why you do you a ten sessions series is to get the long-term
(1:56) relief by changing the entire structure of
(1:58) your body, the entire balance of the musculature, and
(2:01) your neurological patterning – the
(2:05) the way that your brain tells your muscles to tension –
(2:08) and you’re also learning habits – there are other things that I give you during the session.
(2:12) This is really a three-step process, but for the bodywork itself
(2:19) it’s about balancing the tension in the soft tissue
(2:22) between muscle groups and in the hip it’s no different than the shoulder
(2:27) or the ankle or the neck. The first session structural integration will address this.
(2:32) Usually, you’ll get some relief and you will know then
(2:36) whether or not it makes sense to do the rest of the series or not. If don’t get relief, why
(2:41) then, it may not be a good idea
(2:42) the rest. If you do, it will probably make sense and it will be a no brainer.