Hip Mobility Issues

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@mortac8

Probably glute medius (and possibly minimus) compressing the head of the femur into the acetabulum. Try to get something like an old (soft) tennis ball and have them get on it foam roller style roll it in a half-moon pattern around the backside of their greater trochanter (hip bone). You can also actually use a foam roller to get the bulk of the glute med but you can get more specific with a ball.

This happens to me…when I do knee to chest stretch my hip pinches… when i squat deep it pinches. When I stand and slowly flex each hip, my pinching one can’t come up as high. Glute med is often the fix in that case.

I just stumbled upon this thread. Anyways, are you trying to say that hip impingement may simply be caused by a tight glute med. ??

If so, would you suggest that rather than hip impingement being caused by an overgrowth of the bone in the hip, you would say that the cause is rather a misalignment of the hip?