Snapping hip and hip flexor injuries and the Phoenix Waveform

Snapping hip is a condition in which you feel a snapping sensation or hear a popping sound in your hip when you walk, get up from a chair, or swing your leg around. The snapping sensation occurs when a muscle or tendon (the strong tissue that connects muscle to bone) moves over a bony protrusion in your hip.

A hip flexor strain is an injury to one of your hip flexors, the muscles where your thigh meets your hip. They're a type of muscle strain — a tear in your muscle tissue. They're one of the most common injuries, especially among athletes. Strains are classified with three grades to indicate how severe they are.

Cause Snapping hip is most often the result of tightness in the muscles and tendons surrounding the hip. People who are involved in sports and activities that require repeated bending at the hip are more likely to experience snapping hip. Dancers are especially vulnerable. Young athletes are also more likely to have snapping hip. This is because tightness in the muscle structures of the hip is common during adolescent growth spurts.

Neural Fit Treatment:

1. Phoenix Waveform Hunt Protocol:

Search entire hip, glut, quads and hamstring. Find hot spots or areas of dysfunction that are commonly affecting an injury or pain. These hot spots are often not located where the pain is. Failure to treat these areas often leads to a return of symptoms. Finding and treating hot spots is essential to pain relief and injury recovery.

Find the four most sensitive points (not the greatest muscle contraction but the most sensitive) and mark these. Place sticky electrodes over the Hot Spots. Use Hunt or 500 current. Turn intensity up to a level of 5-6 out of 10, perceived by the client.

With the stimulation on, move the body part in the movement that causes pain. Then perform 5 repetitions that lengthen or stretch the affected muscle. If the client's perception of the intensity drops or reduces, increase the intensity slightly and repeat for 6 min.

Reverse the polarity by leaving the electrodes alone and unplug the NEG lead and plug it into the electrode that the POS was plugged into and plug the POS into the electrode the NEG was plugged into. Now repeat the above movements for another 6 min. Have the client preform lunges and hip flexor stretches