Dear MendMeShop,

Thank you so very much!I fell from a ladder to a cement floor several months ago and broke my hip.I'm generally very healthy, and this was my first broken bone in my 68 years.When I fell, I banged my feet on a ladder and now have inflamed bursa in my heels.I have also had some arthritis in my knees for a few years, and the accident did not help. I am sold on your unit. We live basically on social security, and this will be a great help to us.

Rating: Five Star Rating

Linda Johnson

 

More Hip Injury Facts:

The hip joint (scientifically known as the acetabulofemoral joint) is a special type of 'ball-and-socket' joint. Its primary function is to support the weight of the body when at rest or while in motion.

Many patients with Hip Pain are actually diagnosed as suffering from Sciatica. Sciatica is best treated non-surgically with cold compression, therapeutic ultrasound and BFST.

The majority of chronic hip problems are a result of aging, disease (such as arthritis) and fractures.

A Hip Replacement is a surgical procedure that replaces the hip joint with an artifical joint. Many MendMyHip customers have sped up their post-surgery recovery time with our therapeutic tools.

Bursitis of the Hip (trochanteric bursitis) is so painful, many sufferers rely on a wheelchar for mobility. Hip Bursitis is the condition that responds extremely well to ultrasound treatments.

The most common injury in the hip is snapping hip syndrome due to a tight illotibial band. This syndrome responds very well to BFST treatments.

Hip Dislocations are very serious but uncommon injuries that occasionally can occur (usually from a traumatic event). If you suspect you have a dislocated hip, please seek medical attention immediately.

 

Dear MendMeShop,

I received my Ultrasound last Saturday and have used it for three days and my pain is almost gone. Pain that I have been living with since last July and that doctors could not find the problem area or what to do about it. I saw my family doctor plus 3 specialists in back and hip areas. The pain was in the buttocks area and they did not know what to do. I even had P.T. and acupuncture, as well as chiropractic care. This is remarkable, considering how I thought I would have to live like this the rest of my life. I still experience a little discomfort, but nothing like I had previous to receiving the Ultrasound. Again, I highly recommend this to anyone.

Rating: Five Star Rating

Yvonne Schoultz

 

Running Hip Injury Specialists are Friendly and Helpful.

Hip Joint Dislocation

The acetabular joint, or hip joint, is the largest ball and socket joint in the body, with the femural head (top of the leg bone) sitting inside the acetabular fossa (hip socket). When the femoral head comes out of the hip socket it is referred to as a hip dislocation. Dislocations usually occur from a forceful hit to the joint, most commoly during a car accident, and will cause stretching or tearing of the connective tissue surrounding the joint. Dislocation in the hip takes a great amount of force and it will sometimes occur together with a hip fracture, back injury, head injury or fracture in the pelvis.

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When the hip is dislocated, the damage to the soft tissue that usually connects and stabilizes the hip makes the joint painful and unstable. This connective tissue includes the acetabular labrum, articular cartilage, ligaments (iliofemoral, ischiofemoral, pubofemoral, and teres) and the tendons of the stabilizing muscles (piriformis, obturator internus, obturator externus, gemellus superior and inferior, quadratus femoris, IT band, psoas, rectus femoris, tensor fascia lata, gluteus medius and minimus, adductor magnus and longus).

Dislocations are classified into two categories, anterior and posterior. Posterior dislocations are the most common. With a posterior dislocation, the affected joint is rotated internally and the leg will be noticeably shorter. An anterior dislocation is less common, and the leg will be visiably rotated externally.

Symptoms of a Hip Dislocation

  • Severe pain in the hip area that worsens when you try to move your hip
  • Referred pain may be felt in the knee if the IT band is damaged
  • Lower back or sciatica pain if the sciatic nerve is pinched
  • Difficulty walking, standing or moving your leg
  • Swelling and bruising in the hip area
  • A visible shortening of the leg on the affected side
  • A visible change in the appearance of the hip joint

Risks of Hip Dislocation

The following situations will increase your risk of a hip dislocation:

  • A previous hip replacement
  • Participating in high impact sports or sports where falls occur (i.e. skiing, snowboarding, gymnastics, rugby, car racing, football)
  • Factors that may increase the risk of a fall - working on a ladder, dementia or an unsteady gait
  • Weakness in the hip muscles due to inactivity

Treating Your Hip Dislocation

Scar tissue builds on the hip tendon as the tears heal.

The trick to healing the stretched or torn tendons, ligaments and/or labrum following a hip dislocation is getting it to heal with minimal scar tissue formation as possible. Scar tissue can cause pain during exercise and most everyday activities and leave your hip more prone to re-injury later on. But what's worse is that it can bind the tissue together in your acetabular joint making the joint stiff and limiting your range of motion. However, if you heal your injured hip tissue efficiently and quickly with ultrasound therapy, you reduce the amount of scar tissue that forms during the healing process.

Cold compression therapy, therapeutic ultrasound and BFST® will reduce pain, swelling and tissue damage, treat scar tissue, and promote blood flow to heal the connective tissue in your hip faster and more completely than any other methods available.

Freezie Wrap® Cold Compression Therapy

To decrease inflammation and relieve the pain of a hip stretched tendon, ligament or labral tear doctor's recommend cold compression therapy. Cold compression therapy within the first 72 hours of a hip dislocation or following surgery is an effective way to relieve pain and swelling while limiting the amount of damage done to your tissue. In addition, cold compression therapy can reduce, or even eliminate, the need for NSAIDs that can be harmful to your body.

The Back/Hip Freezie Wrap treats pain, swelling and inflammation while reducing tissue damage.

The Back/Hip Freezie Wrap® is the cold compression tool you need to treat your hip pain in an effective and convenient way. It is so versatile you can also use it to treat any pain you may be experiencing in your back or legs as well.

The Back/Hip Freezie Wrap® uses a supercharged cooling gel pack, that chills in the fridge, not in the freezer like ice or other freezer packs, giving you deep cold therapy without the risk of 'cold burns' or cryoburn. The medical-grade wrap delivers cold right where you need it.

Cold compression therapy works by interrupting and slowing nerve and cell function in your hip joint and reduces swelling that can block blood vessels. This is important because once blood vessels are blocked or damaged, they can no longer carry oxygen and nutrients to your hip and tissue cells begin to break-down. Without cold compression therapy, cellular break-down and tissue damage continues as the cells do not get the oxygen they need to survive.

By limiting damage done to your hip tendon, ligament or labrum, you limit the amount of healing that needs to occur. This is a very important step in healing your hip properly!

Ultrasound Therapy

Ultrasound therapy is a great therapeutic option to decrease inflammation, pain and soft tissue damage. Therapeutic ultrasonic waves increase tissue elasticity while increasing blood flow to the tendons and ligaments that surround your acetabular joint. This cleans the injured area by flushing away damaged tissue and reducing the inflammation while opening up the blood vessels to begin healing.

MendMeShop Therapeutic Ultrasound treats soft tissue hip injuries by reducing inflammation and scar tissue

Not only does ultrasound aid in the duration of healing, but it helps to prevent long term complications. Osteoarthritis, chronic pain, reduced range of motion, and bursitis are some of the more common long term complications that can occur when a dislocated hip goes untreated. By treating your stretched or torn tissue with ultrasound, scar tissue becomes softer and other tissue around the acetabular joint becomes stronger reducing the risk of chronic problems in the future.

If you are experiencing pain in your back, knee, ankle or leg because of your hip injury, you can use therpeutic ultrasound to treat these areas as well. With hip injuries you often readjust your posture and gait to take the pressure off your sore side. This puts extra pressure on other parts of your body and can cause strain. Using a home ultrasound will allow you to treat all the areas that need to heal easily and help you maintain a healthier body.

During the healing process, scar tissue builds up to 'repair' the damaged tissue. Unfortunately, scar tissue can bind your tissue together abnormally around the hip joint. The inflexible scar tissue causes more hip pain and limits the movement of these connective tissues that were once elastic and gave your hip its stability and range of motion. As a result, movement of the entire joint is limited making it difficult to rotate your hip and lift your leg.

If scar tissue is left untreated, your hip may stiffen making movement difficult and in some cases, impossible. At the very least, scar tissue leaves your acetabular joint weaker and unstable, leaving your hip at greater risk of further injury. Fortunately, you can treat your hip joint with MendMeShop® Ultrasound to soften scar tissue and improve the motion and flexibility in your hip.

Ultrasound can also be used to administer therapeutic medicines deep into your injured tendon and hip joint. This is a process known as phonophoresis. Ultrasound therapy with phonophoresis is rapidly becoming more popular than ultrasound therapy alone.

Lavender Infusion Ultrasound Gel contains the healing power of natural Bulgarian lavender, eucalyptus, menthol, and peppermint.

Therapeutic ultrasound with phonophoresis is safe, convenient, and easy and requires 10 minutes per treatment. It is based on a form of deep tissue therapy, which is generated through high frequency sound waves (that we can not hear). These waves send micro vibrations into your body and carry medicated molecules within the ultrasound gel deep into your tissue to enhance your ultrasound therapy. Ultrasound waves and medicated ultrasound gel penetrate deep to relax your muscles, decrease inflammation and accelerate your recovery rate, so you can return to your daily activities as soon as possible.

Using MendMeShop® Lavender Infusion Ultrasound Gel during your ultrasound therapy gives you 2 therapies in 1. You get the benefit of the regenerating sound waves from the ultrasound device itself AND the added bonus of the therapeutic ingredients inside the gel being delivered into your tendons and ligaments where it is most effective to reduce your pain and heal. 1 FREE bottle of MendMeShop® Lavender Infusion Ultrasound Gel comes with every MendMeShop® Ultrasound Therapy System and it contains the therapeutic essential oils of natural Bulgarian lavender, peppermint, eucalyptus, and menthol.

Please note: Ultrasound should not be used to treat a hip dislocation if a fracture has occurred as well. Once the fracture has healed, ultrasound may be used with permission from your doctor.

Once the inflammation has been reduced following your hip dislocation, nourishing and strengthening your hip, lower back, upper leg and surrounding tissue is recommended. Using blood flow stimulation therapy will speed your recovery and heal your acetabular joint more completely preparing it for strengthening exercises. Talk to your doctor or physical therapist to find out which exercises are appropriate for your situation.

Inferno Wrap® Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy

Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy, or BFST® is the most natural way to speed healing of your damaged tissue and BFST® reduces the risk of atrophy (weakening of the muscles) in your upper leg muscles. BFST® enhances your body's own healing process by simply increasing the amount of blood that flows to your hip and leg to improve the health of your tissue by delivering an abundance of nutrients to the area.

The Back/Hip Inferno Wrap speeds the healing of soft tissue in the hip.

When you stop moving your hip because it hurts the amount of blood that flows naturally to your acetabular joint is reduced, limiting your body's natural ability to heal itself.

By treating your hip joint and leg with BFST® you can increase your body's blood supply to the hip and increase your body's natural healing power.

An Inferno Wrap® is the tool you need to treat your dislocated hip because it speeds healing and relaxes the surrounding muscles. With BFST®, tissues are safely and gently stimulated. Your body responds with a rapid increase in blood flow to the area, increasing the supply of oxygen and nutrients to injured tissue cells to promote healing. The Back/Hip Inferno Wrap® from MendMeShop® provides effective, non-invasive, non-addictive pain relief and healing with no side effects.

In addition, the improved blood flow helps reduce the risk of atrophy in your muscles. When you stop moving your leg and hip due to pain, your muscles and other tissue can become weaker and dead cells and toxins in the area can cause further tissue deterioration - this can lead to atrophy (muscle weakness and/or deterioration) in your quadriceps, hamstrings and other leg muscles. The Back/Hip Inferno Wrap® is an amazing healing tool that can be used to treat your entire body.

By clearing the area of toxins and increasing the amount of oxygen and nutrients to your hip, injured ligaments and tendons, and leg muscles the risk of atrophy is greatly reduced. Keeping your hip and leg tissue as healthy as possible throughout the healing process will allow you to improve strength again once your hip pain is gone.

Would you like to discuss Hip Dislocations or other conditions with a MendMyHip Advisor?


We welcome you to call our office, toll free, at 1-888-995-3505 on weekdays between 8:00am and 9:00pm Eastern Standard Time or weekends between 11:00am and 6:00pm.


There is no cost or obligation for this service and we will do our best to help provide you with the information you need. Our extensive and on-going research could be of great benefit in helping you overcome your hip pain once and for all.


Living with hip pain is never easy and we can provide answers about causes of the pain, treatment options, potential stretches/ exercise to consider, and ways to manage the condition for the short & long term. Best of all, we can show you what worked for hundreds of our previous clients.

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With these 3 easy-to-use, pain-free, home therapies from MendMyHip, pain is significantly reduced, tissue heals faster, and there's an incredible improvement in the range of motion of your hip. The more diligent you are with your treatment and rehabilitation, the faster you will see successful results!

We've helped thousands of people treat their painful injuries and conditions to get them back on the road to a pain-free life!

Our customers have tried other common hip treatments, such as cortisone injections, pain killers, physical therapy, NSAIDs, and simply staying off their feet to give their hip the rest it needs, all without lasting results - until they found our incredible therapies! In addition, our customers include physicians, professional athletes, sports trainers and coaches, physical therapists, and nurses. These professionals rely on products from MendMyHip to treat their patients, players, and themselves. Click here to read more about their experience with MendMyHip!

Please be aware that this information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider before using any of our outstanding products to make sure they're right for you and your condition or if you have any questions regarding a medical condition. It is recommended that you see your doctor for a proper diagnosis as there are many injuries and conditions that could be the cause of your pain.


Hip Injury Facts:

Over 90% of hip fractures are caused by falling, most frequently on the side of the hip.

Less than 50% of hip fracture patients return to their former level of activity. Proper treatment is important to maintain strength and range of motion.

Hip alignment affects the pressure put on the knees. A hip disorder can aggravate knee pain and vice versa.

1 in 7 Americans, over the age of 60, reports significant hip pain.

In most cases, arthritis pain will not benefit from a hip arthroscopy.

70% of non-fracture hip replacements in 2003-2004 were to treat osteoarthritis.

 

Dear MendMeShop,

My girlfriend has an arthritic knee and she usually doesn't like lavendar scent in other products. However, with all the rave reviews, ordered it anyway. Let's put it this way, she now uses it twice a day on her knee and she finds the scent is pleasant. When I injure my hamstring playing ball, I use it too and it really works. I highly recommend this gel when using ultrasound therapy.

Rating: Five Star Rating

Alfred Frimerman

 

Dear MendMeShop,

I am 56 years old and purchased your ultrasound equipment to repair minor joint deterioration in my shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles. I was experiencing minor tenderness and crackling sounds in some of my joints. After one 10-15 minute treatment on each of my joints, the tenderness the next day had mostly disappeared and the crackling sounds in my knees were reduced. Greater flexibility in my ankles was the most amazing. I offered to help my friends and family with treatments on their trouble areas. My 32 year old niece had developed stabbing pains in the arch of one foot (plantar fasciitis?) causing her to hop on the other foot first thing in the morning. With one treatment, she woke up the next morning and could walk instead of hop/limp to the bathroom. She came back right away for a second treatment and to have her husband work on his knee. They both got further relief. Now she and her husband are ready to order their own ultrasound equipment. I also assisted my 94 year old mother that had a frozen shoulder. After two treatments, she gained a about six inches in her range of motion and she became pain free in the resting position. That is very fast progress for all of us. Over the last 3 weeks, more of my friends got relief from the ultrasound equipment for tender Achilles heals, elbows, wrists and neck stiffness. Most comment about how pleasing the therapeutic gel is that has lavender, eucalyptus, and other ingredients. This has been a very inexpensive way to self treat and cut down on chiropractor visits that did not really solve the problem.

Rating: Five Star Rating

Connie Patterson

 

Specialized Hip Bursitis Treatment Options

Dear MendMeShop,

I have fibromyalgia and have tried everything, so I was skeptical when my chiropractor recommended that I try the ultrasound unit available at MendMeShop. But after 3 days of treatment on my lower back, I noticed a difference - I wasn't as stiff and I could walker further than I have been able to in years! I now treat my back once per day and have started working on my neck too. My kids have even mentioned that I'm smiling more now!

Rating: Five Star Rating

Gwen Young

 

pain relief and injury treatment with ultrasound therapy

Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy with an Inferno Back wrap for the ultimate in sore back healing

Freeze Wrap Back - reduce back pain and swelling in sore, strained or overused muscles, especially in the lower back and trapezius muscles

Ceanix Professional Therapist Pad - efficient relief of swelling and pain from a hip injury or sciatica

This universal leg wrap can increase healing rate of a shin, calf, groin, thigh, or hamstring

Freezie Leg wrap for cold compression of the shin, calf, groin, thigh, or hamstring

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