Hip Pain

When Your Hips Hurt, It’s Usually Because Your Butt Forgot How to Work

After treating and working on well over 100 000 hips, you start to notice patterns.

The most common? Gluteal amnesia — your butt muscles have literally forgotten how to turn on.

How does that happen?

Modern life.

We sit to work, to drive, to eat, to relax.

Every hour spent sitting keeps the glutes in the “off” position.

And the body lives by one rule: use it or lose it.

When your glutes stop doing their job, other muscles have to pick up the slack — your back, knees, or deep hip stabilizers.

They weren’t designed for that load, so they strain, tighten, and eventually scream for help.

The Chain Reaction

Think of loading a 100-pound bag of dog food into your car.

You’ll clench your jaw, hold your breath, and even tighten your eye muscles just to make it happen.

Your body does the same thing when the glutes check out — every nearby muscle jumps in, creating friction and fatigue.

Meanwhile, the muscles in the front of your hips (the hip flexors and groin) adapt to life in a shortened position.

They lose elasticity, blood flow, and waste-removal capacity, turning into a constant source of compression and stiffness.

The result:

• Chronic hip tightness or pinching
• Glute weakness or burning
• Low-back and knee pain
• A sense that your hips just “don’t move right” anymore

How I Fix It: Reawakening the System

I don’t treat hip pain by stretching the painful spot.

I restore the conversation between your glutes, core, and nervous system.

• Active Release & Fascial Decompression – Free up front-of-hip tension and restore glide.
• SoftWave Therapy – Flush inflammation, boost circulation, and jump-start regeneration.
• Glute Re-education – Micro-dose activation drills that retrain your brain to recruit the right muscles again.
• Mobility Homework – Short daily “movement snacks” to re-elasticize the hip without over-stretching.

When those systems come back online, hips open up, backs calm down, and knees stop complaining.

Common Hip Problems I Treat

• Gluteal amnesia / weak glutes
• Hip impingement or pinching
• Groin tightness or adductor strain
• Hip flexor tendonitis
• Piriformis or deep rotator pain
• Post-surgical hip stiffness
• SI joint pain linked to hip imbalance

Try This at Home

your hips suddenly feel lighter or looser after this, that’s your glutes waking up — exactly what we refine in-office.”

What Patients Say

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You don’t need another stretch routine.

You need your glutes back online.

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