Do You Suffer From Chronic Hip Flexor Pain or Pelvic Pain? Here's Why You're Not Getting Better + Tips To Get Better
Have you been to doctors and therapists, tried countless treatments and started doing physio exercises all to improve your chronic hip flexor pain, or pelvic pain, but still can’t find relief?
For the most part, doctors and therapists will blame chronic hip flexor pain or pelvic pain on some sort of injury sustained. Martial artists, dancers, cyclists, footballers, aerobic practitioners or anyone using their legs a lot, seem to be the most likely sufferers. Although many start experiencing pain in these areas without any traceable injury.
So what if you didn’t injure yourself and you have pain, would treatment be the same?
Also, what if you did injure yourself and tried lots of treatments, but you still have your hip flexor pain after a couple of months?
We’ll be exploring these questions and more in this article, and I’ll give you my proven mind body tips to help with chronic hip flexor or pelvic pain.
Conventional Treatments
Mostly centred around ice packs, painkillers and exercises. If things don’t improve after a long while, some even go down the route of surgery. It’s common for sufferers to go from treatment to treatment, desperate to find a solution. Sometimes finding temporary relief, but ultimately always finding that the pain returns.
As the pelvis in particular is an intimate part of the body, it can end up affecting romance with partners and trips to the toilet. Two spaces which require a unique level of safety, trust and confidence.
However, as with most types of pain in the body, chronic hip flexor pain and pelvic pain is largely misunderstood.
Pain is NOT coming from the hip or pelvis
Contrary to assumed belief, the cause of 100% of pain in the body comes from the brain. When you injure an area of the body, signals are sent to the brain to tell it to send pain to that area to allow it to heal. So even though you may be feeling pain in the hip or pelvis area, that’s not where your chronic hip flexor pain, or pelvic pain, is actually coming from.
It only takes the body a couple of weeks to heal most injuries, even serious muscle tears and bone breaks only need a maximum of 6 months. So even though the area no longer needs healing, the brain is still sending pain signals to that area.
What incentive does the brain have to keep the body in pain, even after the area is healed?
The brain purposely sends pain to familiar places in the body, to get you to resolve your emotional issues
Yes you read this correctly, the brain purposely creates pain in familiar places as a warning mechanism as it wants you to resolve your emotional issues
If this is the first time you’ve read something like this, it may seem far fetched. However this is backed by proven pain science about the nature of the brain. FMRI (brain scans) show that the same areas of the brain light up whether pain is physical or emotional.
Think about sweaty palms when you’re nervous or a tight chest when you’re angry. The body is always creating physical symptoms due to emotional stimuli. When you have sweaty palms or a tight chest, you simply resolve the nervousness or anger and the physical symptoms go away. However sometimes you chronically bury emotions, then the brain ends up chronically sending pain to the body.
Why you’re not getting better
If you’ve had chronic hip flexor pain or pelvic pain for longer than 6 months and you’re not getting better, it’s most likely because you’re concentrating on improving your physical symptoms rather than looking at the emotional issues arising for you.
You’re basically looking in the wrong place, and spending lots of time and effort going through the carousel of treatments. I once had terrible IBS and chronic back pain myself, I spent years trying out lots of different treatments only to eventually be told it was an emotional rather than a physical issue.
Then the next question became but which emotions? And what do I do with those emotions once I find them?
Personality traits, stress in the present day and stress from the past
Dr John Sarno was a well known pioneer in the field of pain alleviation. He’s written countless books on the subject of pain recovery. Once upon a time, he noticed no correlation between his back pain patients and their structural abnormalities. Some patients had slipped discs and scoliosis and had no pain, and some had no scoliosis or slipped discs but had pain.
What he did notice was that every patient who had pain had similar personality traits, stress in the present day or stress from the past. So he encouraged patients to take steps to alleviate these issues. Once they did, their pain went away.
For a full list of the personality traits, stress in the present day or stress from the past I recommend heading over to this link.
Tips to get better
So the goal is to start to investigate the role your emotions play in your chronic hip flexor or pelvic pain. If you’re anything like me, you’ll also be completely in the dark of where to start. I eventually completely cured my chronic pain, because I utilised proven tools to help me become more emotionally intelligent. Here are a couple options for you:
Take my FREE Mindbody quiz to learn about which areas of your life you need to focus more on in order to heal. At the end of the quiz, watch testimonials of people who have healed their pain using my programs.
Book a complimentary consultation with me, to find out more about my pain relief programme. Share your story of pain with me, and I’ll share with you the strategies I’ve used to help 100s of people heal.