Is Your Hip Pain Caused by a Fallen Arch?

Do you see on the above image how that dropped arch throws the entire body off?

The body doesn’t move in isolation, so when your arch collapses, your knee and femur follow and will rotate inwards.

If one of your feet collapses more than the other, that will also cause your same side hip to drop.

This is how you could experience hip pain because of a foot alignment issue!

But the domino effect doesn’t stop at the hip. It will travel up to the spine, the shoulders, the neck and the head. Crazy, huh?

Having an arch that’s more collapsed than the other is a common structural issue.

There’re various reasons why it happens. To mention a few:

– carrying a child on one hip

– not fully recovering from an injury

– lack of body awareness

– always sleeping on the same side of the body

– feet that lack strength and function

– weak hips

– neurological disorders

– neurologically underworking muscles, etc.

Is there an exercise I can do to help this?

Yes, there is! Your hips control the movement of your feet and they create stability in your ankles as well. A good place to start is activating the hip muscles that are responsible for controlling your feet.