Do you experience Hip Pain In Standing? Or Maybe Low Back or Pelvic Pain?

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Researchers have found that sitting too much is not great for our health, therefore recommendations have been developed to increase the time we spend standing.

Most workplaces are beginning to provide access to standing desks as a standard feature.

Yet so many people struggle to stand for more than 10-15minutes – endurance is commonly limited by hip pain in standing or low back or pelvic pain.

This presents a real dilemma – stand more for your health, but it hurts to stand!

The solution – find ways to reduce your hip pain in standing to improve your standing endurance and enjoy not only pain relief, but also the general health benefits.

Here we have brought together some key information from our most popular blogs on hip pain in standing. Click through to read more on each of these sub-topics.

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What standing posture is best for reducing hip pain in standing?

Firstly, is there one perfect standing posture for everyone? Basically NO! There is no one ‘perfect posture’ and certainly no single good posture for hip pain relief that is guaranteed to stop hip pain in standing for everyone.

Too often people are made to feel overly self-conscious and worried about the way they stand. In an effort to maintain such a perfect posture, many people resort to a rigid ‘military-style’ posture. However, this unnecessarily high degree of muscle usage can be become exhausting and painful.  Forcing your body to try to achieve a position that it is simply not able to achieve may be counterproductive..

Read more about what is or isn’t perfect posture in our blog on this topic.

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Sway posture and hip pain in standing

Sway posture is where the pelvis is swayed forward relative to the ankles and shoulders. This can increase the forces that cross the front of the hip, as well as the low back and pelvis, contributing to hip pain in standing.

Sway standing may be particularly provocative for those with the following conditions:

  • pain at the front of the hip
  • labral tear
  • hip osteoarthritis
  • hip instability
  • hip dysplasia or acetabular dysplasia
  • femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAI / FAIS)
  • hip flexor pain
  • groin pain
  • low back pain
  • hypermobility

Read our blog on this topic to understand

  • what sway posture is,
  • how this posture can contribute to hip and back pain, and
  • how you can reduce hip pain in standing by altering your “sway posture”.
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Hip hanging and hip pain in standing

Hip hanging is where you place more weight on one leg and let the hip drop out to the side. This is a common position that people adopt as they get tired when standing for prolonged periods.  Often when people carry children they will put them on one hip, so this is another group of people for whom this may be particularly relevant.

Do you think you hang on one hip when standing? Do you have any of the following issues?:

  • gluteal tendinopathy,
  • greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS),
  • hip bursitis,
  • trochanteric bursitis,
  • pain over the outside of the hip
  • groin pain
  • hip dysplasia
  • hypermobility

If so, read our blog on this topic to understand

what hip hanging is,

how this posture can contribute to hip and back pain, and

how you can reduce hip pain in standing by reducing ‘hip hanging’.

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Lordotic posture and hip pain in standing

Maybe you have more of a lordotic posture when you stand.  Hip and of back pain may develop early when standing in a ‘lordotic posture,’ which is where the lower back is held in a deeply arched position and the pelvis is relatively tilted further forward than a typical, average position.

This blog be a particularly relevant article for those with:

  • pain at the front of the hip or in the groin
  • femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAI / FAIS)
  • tight hip flexors
  • low back pain
  • generalised Hypermobility

Check out more about what a lordotic posture is, why it may contribute to your hip pain standing and how you may be able to change this posture to provide some pain relief in this great blog:

Read our blog on this topic to understand

  • what lordotic posture is,
  • how this posture can contribute to hip and back pain, and
  • how you can reduce hip pain in standing and back pain in standing by altering your “lordotic posture”.
Are you a hip hanger ideas on how not how to stand for hip pain relief

We hope this information has been valuable for you and helpful in your quest to reduce your hip pain in standing and stand more comfortably for longer, allowing you to reduce sitting and improve your general health. Pain and your general health are also of course helped with movement! Motion is lotion! Our bodies love to move, so apart from reducing time spent in extreme postures, try to move you body regularly when standing to ease your hip pain in standing.

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  1. References:
    Gluteal Tendinopathy: A Review of Mechanisms, Assessment and Management. Grimaldi et al. Sports Med. 2015 Aug;45(8):1107-19
  2. Physical impairments in symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement: a systematic review of the evidence. Freke et al, Br J Sports Med. 2016 Oct;50(19):1180.

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