Loosening the hips???

**Poop Loops** · Posted On: 8/17/2006 1:18am

I have this problem with my hips that whenever I try to do a high kick, it fucking HURTS. Not in the groin area, in the out hips. I don't understand this. I can't do side splits either, for the same reason. The groin area is fine, it's the hips that start hurting (not even "stretching", just like someone were twisting my joint the wrong way) when I lift my leg too high sideways. Which is funny, because I can do a forward kick above my head and almost do the front splits.

Any ideas? I can't think of a way to stretch that part of the hip to see if it would do anything. The "exact" spot where it hurts would be right underneath and to the side of the hip bone at your waist.

It pisses me off because I like high kicks. :( I also had this problem when doing TKD, but I never really had to do high kicks that had any power, so I could weasel out of it.

**supercrap** · Posted On: 8/17/2006 1:27am

I have the exact same thing.

I'm thinking of seeing a chiro about it.

I can almost put my foot behind my head, but I can't open my legs further than 90 degrees.

you know the reclined cobblers pose?

Like this but on your back, feet together on the floor, knees falling to the side...

That really hurts my hips... how about you?

**Poop Loops** · Posted On: 8/17/2006 1:31am

AAAhhh!! The pain! Yeah, it hurts.

Yeah, 90º is my limit. It's weird seeing guys who haven't been training as long or just aren't is as good shape as I am open their legs wider when stretching (like on the floor).

You think a chiro can solve this? Don't they just fondle your spine?

**Torakaka** · Posted On: 8/17/2006 1:33am

Doing a lotus position stretch helps me, I get the same thing sometimes when I'm feeling particularly stiff.

**Airman Kai** · Posted On: 8/17/2006 1:36am

I know that I CANNOT go more than, say... 145 degrees, but pain from a high kick? It's time to see the chiropractor, PL.

**EDIT**

For clarity, I should add that any pain that I do experience is from the groin area, not the hips, which is why I suggest a Chiropractical angle on this problem.

**Poop Loops** · Posted On: 8/17/2006 1:48am

Seriously? A chiro? I'll ask the guys at my gym if they know of any good ones, then, since they seem to be "in the know". I don't want someone telling me "oh yes yes, come here twice a week for the next 50 years and I'll guarantee I'll get your arms moving again."

**Airman Kai** · Posted On: 8/17/2006 2:05am

Originally Posted by Poop Loops

Seriously? A chiro? I'll ask the guys at my gym if they know of any good ones, then, since they seem to be "in the know". I don't want someone telling me "oh yes yes, come here twice a week for the next 50 years and I'll guarantee I'll get your arms moving again."

Dude. It's your HIP. I would have to say that you shouldn't **** with father chance on this one. Don't get all cynical, but you should accept the SLIGHT possibility that you might actually have a condition which requires a multitude of chiropractic solutions.

Or not. But like I said, it's your freakin hip. Don't chance it.

**wakinonioi** · Posted On: 8/17/2006 3:01am

You have a condition called "Just Not That Flexible"

The easiest and cheapest way to deal with it is to just accept that big, dramatic, flashy head kicks are just not gonna be the way you knock someone the **** out. Too bad.

**karate_princess** · Posted On: 8/17/2006 3:08am

I'm with kidspatula, the lotus position works wonders, it's from that stretch that I managed to get so flexible.

**alex** · Posted On: 8/17/2006 4:37am

Originally Posted by wakinonioi

You have a condition called "Just Not That Flexible"

The easiest and cheapest way to deal with it is to just accept that big, dramatic, flashy head kicks are just not gonna be the way you knock someone the **** out. Too bad.

if you dont know dont open your dumb mouth. in this case, you dont know. hip pain of the kind PL is talking about is not "just something that happens"

PL- chiro. I had this exact problem. she (and yes she was HOT) used strange voodoo chair of death to make my hip go "crack" and the pain never came back. also while this will get rid of the pain (hopefully) im gonna guess you will also have trouble with your flexibility. go see a physio and he will give you stretches and **** to strengthen the abductors and adductors on the out and inside of your leg.