What Are My Noninvasive Treatment Options for My Hip Pain?

Hip pain can be demoralizing. When you experience pain with each step you take, it’s hard to want to get up — even for activities you used to love. The decreased mobility can dramatically change your life. 

If this sounds familiar, it’s time to talk to your doctor. And not just because hip replacement surgery is a highly effective treatment option. You have a wide range of treatments you can explore well before you consider a surgical procedure.

Here at Integrated Pain Solutions, Dr. Halina Snowball specializes in noninvasive and minimally invasive hip pain treatments. Visit us at our office in Stamford, Connecticut, where Dr. Snowball can evaluate your hip and recommend a personalized treatment plan. 

In most cases, this means starting with completely noninvasive treatment options. 

Noninvasive ways to address hip pain

Dr. Snowball starts with the most conservative treatment option, then scales up if your hip doesn’t get better. 

For most patients, this means beginning with a personalized plan that combines resting your hip with the right level of physical activity. Dr. Snowball might recommend physical therapy to see if strengthening the soft tissues that support your hip helps bring you relief.

If you’re not seeing improvement by pairing rest with targeted movement, Dr. Snowball can add additional treatments to ease your discomfort. These include:

• Massage
• Medication
• Extracorporeal pulse activation technology (EPAT®)

When Dr. Snowball recommends medication, it’s to treat what’s going on with your hip. If you’re dealing with inflammation, for example, medication can help. Because she offers compounding, Dr. Snowball can combine pure, pharmaceutical-grade ingredients in the precise dosage you need. 

Scaling up treatment as needed

If noninvasive treatment isn’t relieving your hip pain, you don’t need to jump straight to surgery. 

Dr. Snowball can work with you to see if any minimally invasive hip pain treatments might help. Your options here include acupuncture, which uses needles so small you shouldn’t experience any pain, and regenerative medicine techniques. 

Regenerative medicine works by using healing substances taken either from your own body or from a healthy donor. This way, your body gets natural, highly effective resources to support its healing processes. 

The regenerative medicine treatments we offer that might help your hip include:

• Platelet-rich plasma
• Stem cell therapy
• Placental matrix

There’s a wide range of options you can explore before you turn to hip replacement surgery. To find out which noninvasive and minimally invasive treatments might be right for your specific hip issues, schedule an appointment with Dr. Snowball by calling our office at 203-293-0549 or requesting an appointment online today.