Hip Pain Physical Therapy in West Los Angeles
We provide specialized physical therapy for patients dealing with hip pain caused by muscle strains, bursitis, labral tears, hip impingement, arthritis, or post-surgical recovery throughout West Los Angeles and Santa Monica.
Hip pain is one of the most complex areas to treat well — because what feels like a hip problem often involves the lower back, pelvis, or knee as contributing factors. Pain on the outside of the hip is often not the hip joint at all, but the IT band or gluteal tendons. Pain deep in the front of the hip may involve the labrum, hip flexors, or joint itself. Our team identifies exactly what’s driving your symptoms rather than treating the area that hurts in isolation.
Our goal is to help you reduce pain, restore strength and mobility, and safely return to walking, running, sitting, exercising, and daily life without hip pain limiting what you can do. We build individualized treatment plans based on your specific condition, history, and goals.
How We Evaluate Hip Pain
Your first visit starts with a thorough evaluation — we assess your hip’s range of motion, strength, and joint mobility, and use specific movement tests to identify whether your pain is coming from the joint, bursa, tendons, labrum, or surrounding muscles.
We also assess your lower back, pelvis, and knee — since hip pain rarely exists in isolation. Many patients with hip pain have contributing weakness or stiffness elsewhere that needs to be addressed as part of the plan.
Once we understand what’s driving your symptoms, we build a specific treatment plan tailored to your findings — not a generic hip exercise program.
Throughout treatment, we track your strength, mobility, and pain so your plan stays effective as you progress.
What to Expect
Your treatment plan is built around your specific hip condition and may include a combination of hands-on manual therapy, targeted strengthening, mobility work, and movement retraining.
Treatment may focus on:
- Reducing pain and inflammation
- Restoring full hip range of motion
- Strengthening the glutes, hip flexors, and deep stabilizers
- Improving pelvic stability and alignment
- Correcting movement patterns that overload the hip
- Gradually returning to walking, running, or sports
- Preventing the pain from becoming a recurring issue
Your plan is adjusted as you progress, with the goal of getting you back to full, pain-free movement — not just temporary relief.
Common Hip Conditions We Treat
Hip pain shows up differently depending on the cause — deep groin pain with squatting, aching on the outside of the hip after walking, sharp pain with certain movements, stiffness getting up from a chair, or pain that radiates into the thigh or buttock.
We commonly treat:
- Hip bursitis (greater trochanteric bursitis)
- Gluteal tendinopathy
- Hip labral tears
- Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI)
- Hip flexor strains and tightness
- Hip osteoarthritis
- IT band syndrome with hip involvement
- Post-surgical hip rehabilitation
Whether your hip pain is from a recent injury or something that’s been building gradually, proper evaluation and treatment makes a significant difference in long-term outcomes.
When to See Someone About Hip Pain
Occasional hip tightness after sitting for long periods or a hard workout is common. But pain that persists for more than a week or two, stiffness that limits how far you can walk or how comfortably you can sit, or pain that’s changing how you move are signs it’s worth getting properly evaluated.
Hip problems that go unaddressed often lead to compensatory issues in the lower back and knee — making the original problem harder to resolve over time. Early evaluation almost always leads to a faster, more complete recovery.
In California, you can see a physical therapist directly without a doctor’s referral, so you can get started right away.
Our Goal
Our goal is to help you move without pain, rebuild the strength and mobility to keep your hip healthy long-term, and get back to walking, running, exercising, and daily activities without hip pain slowing you down.
As your physical therapist in West Los Angeles, we focus on real, lasting results rather than short-term symptom relief — identifying and addressing the root cause so your hip pain doesn’t keep coming back.