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Treat Your Own Hip
This easy to follow handbook provides the reader with an active self-treatment plan to resolve and manage hip pain. This is the fifth book in the best-selling Treat Your Own series, with the first two Treat Your Own Back and Treat Your Own Neck, being translated into 18 different languages and selling over 6 million copies worldwide. The world-renowned McKenzie Method detailed in this book is a simple process that is proven to work. This publication contains easily understood exercises and vital information to enable you to self-manage your hip pain and gives you an insight into the cause and effect relationship which helps to prevent recurrence of hip and related pain. You can become independent of spinal manipulation or drugs that only treat the symptoms of your pain, and not the cause. Just check out the research or the testimonials from readers who have found enormous relief from the "world's best-selling back book of all time".
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Published January 30, 2020
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Robin McKenzie
11 books10 followersDuring his lifetime, his contributions to the understanding and treatment of spinal problems met with worldwide recognition. In addition, he received numerous awards from the medical and scientific communities from various countries. The validity of the theories he proposed are now supported with scientific evidence and the effectiveness of his treatments have been scientifically validated.
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May 23, 2020
Very good Information
It had everything you need to know about Arthritis in the hip and how remedy the pain, Great Book I’d recommend it to anyone
It had everything you need to know about Arthritis in the hip and how remedy the pain, Great Book I’d recommend it to anyone
April 6, 2022
The exercises really help my hip pain.
February 10, 2023
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This was more of a have-to read than a want-to. So, backstory it is….
I was diagnosed with bursitis in my right hip a little more than 37 years ago. I still remember telling the doctor, “But my MawMaw has bursitis! I can’t have bursitis, I’m only 19!” He of course laughed at me and told me well, you’ve inherited your MawMaw’s joints. Then gave me a steroid shot and sent me on my merry way.
Off and on over the years I would have to go see someone and get another shot. For a long time the effects lasted for about five years, then three years. Then, when I weighed about 30 lbs. more than what is “normal” for me, every one year. Lost that weight, back to three years.
Which brings us to now, sort of. I had been experiencing increasingly worsening pain in my right hip/leg since late October of last year, which is about the time the positive effects of the last steroid injection and two months of physical therapy wore off. Disturbing, because the shot was just in July, not even a year ago. Tried all my PT normal stretches, self-medicating with Aleve and some Prednisone left over from a bronchial infection, re-incorporating squats into my daily routine, and even the quite drastic measure of beginning to sit—all the time—without crossing my legs.
No joy. Things got so bad the “hot” pain was waking me during the night, I was suffering from leg weakness, and the pain was referring all the way down to my knee and ankle. This was some new and quite scary stuff, and I quickly convinced myself that I had Deep Vein Thrombosis Cancer Of The Right Leg & Perhaps An Associated Infection That Would Require Bloodletting By Leeches. Because, you know, my medical degree. From The University of Google.
I told my husband that we were either going to have to amputate or find me some heroin to inject between my toes. He put forth the ridiculous suggestion that maybe I go back in and see my orthopedist and then do some more PT. I replied, in all seriousness, that maybe I really should do something different, because the same thing didn’t seem to be working. And then remembered that Said Husband is seeing a licensed chiropractor who leads with PT and, as she herself said, doesn’t “go in for all that cracking and jerking stuff.” That would be something different……
Saw her Monday afternoon. She put me through a series of range of motion exercises, and then proceeded to tell me that my problem was in my lower back and not in my right hip, and that while it’s been all well and good to treat the symptoms of my trochanteric bursitis and associated IT (iliotibial) band syndrome, that wasn’t getting at the root cause of my pain. She showed me how to do a certain kind of arm press-up that incorporates breathing out and pushing my abdomen out for a count of two while my arms are extended, and told me to do one to three sets of these 10 times a day.
Y’all? I’ve been doing the exercises, and my pain has gone from a 10 Sunday night to literally a zero earlier this afternoon. I wouldn’t say I’m completely cured, because I had some sixes and fours in between, and am even feeling some twinges as I write this, but I am dang sure on the road to recovery. When I was meeting with “Dr. Kelsey” earlier today I told her that I was both delighted and frustrated that something seemingly this simple was all that was necessary to address a health problem that has plagued me for decades. Can’t even begin to tell you the quality of life issues it has caused. Why, in all those years, didn’t one of the innumerable orthos and/or PTs I’ve seen say hey, maybe that hip stuff is referred pain? I dunno. I’m not a doctor. Maybe it’s because none of the imaging ever showed any problems with my back and hips? (Ortho said last summer I have the hips of a 35 year old. On X-rays. I’ll take my compliments where I can get them, LOL.)
Anywhoodles, this book, Treat Your Own Hip by Robert McKenzie (he of McKenzie Method fame), is something she gave me to read so I could gain a greater understanding of how the hip bone’s connected to the backbone (sing along with me to “The Skeleton Dance”!).
As far as good reads go, it wasn’t one. The author and his co-authors didn’t hesitate to use 37 words when they could’ve used four, and if there was an editor involved, it didn’t show. And even though it was a fairly lay-friendly book, it still felt academic to some degree. The drawings, on the other hand, were fantastic and very educational.
So, I’m going with 5 stars for the intent and the drawings and 2 stars for the writing and lack of editing. Would like to give it 2.5 stars but I guess that half-star option will be a cold day in hell coming, eh, Goodreads? So, gonna round up to 3, because I think that this book deserves a good rating because probably a non-editor type could read it without picking it death.
And now I will get out of this computer chair and get back down on the floor and do more press-ups.
PS
Here’s a link to the McKenzie Institute website: https://www.mckenzieinstituteusa.org/...
This was more of a have-to read than a want-to. So, backstory it is….
I was diagnosed with bursitis in my right hip a little more than 37 years ago. I still remember telling the doctor, “But my MawMaw has bursitis! I can’t have bursitis, I’m only 19!” He of course laughed at me and told me well, you’ve inherited your MawMaw’s joints. Then gave me a steroid shot and sent me on my merry way.
Off and on over the years I would have to go see someone and get another shot. For a long time the effects lasted for about five years, then three years. Then, when I weighed about 30 lbs. more than what is “normal” for me, every one year. Lost that weight, back to three years.
Which brings us to now, sort of. I had been experiencing increasingly worsening pain in my right hip/leg since late October of last year, which is about the time the positive effects of the last steroid injection and two months of physical therapy wore off. Disturbing, because the shot was just in July, not even a year ago. Tried all my PT normal stretches, self-medicating with Aleve and some Prednisone left over from a bronchial infection, re-incorporating squats into my daily routine, and even the quite drastic measure of beginning to sit—all the time—without crossing my legs.
No joy. Things got so bad the “hot” pain was waking me during the night, I was suffering from leg weakness, and the pain was referring all the way down to my knee and ankle. This was some new and quite scary stuff, and I quickly convinced myself that I had Deep Vein Thrombosis Cancer Of The Right Leg & Perhaps An Associated Infection That Would Require Bloodletting By Leeches. Because, you know, my medical degree. From The University of Google.
I told my husband that we were either going to have to amputate or find me some heroin to inject between my toes. He put forth the ridiculous suggestion that maybe I go back in and see my orthopedist and then do some more PT. I replied, in all seriousness, that maybe I really should do something different, because the same thing didn’t seem to be working. And then remembered that Said Husband is seeing a licensed chiropractor who leads with PT and, as she herself said, doesn’t “go in for all that cracking and jerking stuff.” That would be something different……
Saw her Monday afternoon. She put me through a series of range of motion exercises, and then proceeded to tell me that my problem was in my lower back and not in my right hip, and that while it’s been all well and good to treat the symptoms of my trochanteric bursitis and associated IT (iliotibial) band syndrome, that wasn’t getting at the root cause of my pain. She showed me how to do a certain kind of arm press-up that incorporates breathing out and pushing my abdomen out for a count of two while my arms are extended, and told me to do one to three sets of these 10 times a day.
Y’all? I’ve been doing the exercises, and my pain has gone from a 10 Sunday night to literally a zero earlier this afternoon. I wouldn’t say I’m completely cured, because I had some sixes and fours in between, and am even feeling some twinges as I write this, but I am dang sure on the road to recovery. When I was meeting with “Dr. Kelsey” earlier today I told her that I was both delighted and frustrated that something seemingly this simple was all that was necessary to address a health problem that has plagued me for decades. Can’t even begin to tell you the quality of life issues it has caused. Why, in all those years, didn’t one of the innumerable orthos and/or PTs I’ve seen say hey, maybe that hip stuff is referred pain? I dunno. I’m not a doctor. Maybe it’s because none of the imaging ever showed any problems with my back and hips? (Ortho said last summer I have the hips of a 35 year old. On X-rays. I’ll take my compliments where I can get them, LOL.)
Anywhoodles, this book, Treat Your Own Hip by Robert McKenzie (he of McKenzie Method fame), is something she gave me to read so I could gain a greater understanding of how the hip bone’s connected to the backbone (sing along with me to “The Skeleton Dance”!).
As far as good reads go, it wasn’t one. The author and his co-authors didn’t hesitate to use 37 words when they could’ve used four, and if there was an editor involved, it didn’t show. And even though it was a fairly lay-friendly book, it still felt academic to some degree. The drawings, on the other hand, were fantastic and very educational.
So, I’m going with 5 stars for the intent and the drawings and 2 stars for the writing and lack of editing. Would like to give it 2.5 stars but I guess that half-star option will be a cold day in hell coming, eh, Goodreads? So, gonna round up to 3, because I think that this book deserves a good rating because probably a non-editor type could read it without picking it death.
And now I will get out of this computer chair and get back down on the floor and do more press-ups.
PS
Here’s a link to the McKenzie Institute website: https://www.mckenzieinstituteusa.org/...
January 11, 2026
Great consumer version of Robin McKenzie’s brilliance
Plain discussion with easy to understand exercises and great visual aids. A quick read, a can’t miss protocol for those who have been intimidated in the past.
Plain discussion with easy to understand exercises and great visual aids. A quick read, a can’t miss protocol for those who have been intimidated in the past.
November 8, 2023
This book and it's suggestions is helping me tremendously.
December 30, 2021
World renowned PT
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