Hip & Pelvis

Pain Treatment

Specialist physiotherapy to help reduce hip and pelvis pain, improve movement, rebuild strength, and get you back to everyday life, training, and sport with confidence.

What's Behind Your
Hip & Pelvis Pain?

Annotated diagram of the human pelvis and upper femur showing bones, muscles, and ligaments, including the ilium, sacrum, coccyx, iliopsoas muscle, sacroiliac joint, gluteus muscles, deep hip rotators, obturator internus, femur, lesser trochanter, psoas tendon, pubic symphysis, and ischium.

Hip and pelvis pain can come from many different areas, including the hip joint, surrounding muscles, tendons, ligaments, lower back, groin, or pelvic region.

Because the hip and pelvis work closely together during walking, running, lifting, sitting, and sport, pain is not always caused by one single structure. Symptoms can develop when the area becomes overloaded, stiff, weak, irritated, or when movement patterns have changed over time.

Some people experience pain after a specific injury, fall, surgery, or sporting incident. Others notice symptoms building gradually through training, work, pregnancy, arthritis, or long periods of sitting.

At Rebuild Physiotherapy, we take time to understand what is causing your symptoms, how it is affecting your movement, and what needs to change to help you recover properly.

Common Hip & Pelvis Problems We Treat

  • FAI, or femoroacetabular impingement, happens when the hip joint does not move as smoothly as it should. This can create a pinching or catching sensation, usually felt at the front of the hip or deep in the groin.

    Symptoms are often worse with squatting, sitting for long periods, running, gym movements, twisting, or bringing the knee up towards the chest.

    Physiotherapy can help by improving hip strength, movement control, mobility, and load tolerance. Treatment focuses on reducing irritation, improving how the hip and pelvis move together, and helping you return to daily activity, training, or sport with more confidence.

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  • Hip arthroscopy is a keyhole surgery often used to treat problems inside the hip joint, such as labral tears or FAI.

    After surgery, physiotherapy is an important part of recovery. Rehabilitation usually focuses on protecting the hip early on, restoring movement, rebuilding strength, improving walking pattern, and gradually returning to exercise or sport.

    At Rebuild Physiotherapy, we guide you through each stage of your rehab with a clear plan that matches your surgery, your symptoms, and your goals.

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  • Hip dysplasia is when the hip socket does not fully support the ball of the hip joint. This can place extra stress on the joint, surrounding muscles, and soft tissues.

    Some people with hip dysplasia may have a procedure called a PAO, or periacetabular osteotomy, to improve the position and support of the hip socket.

    Physiotherapy can help both before and after surgery by improving strength, control, walking pattern, mobility, and confidence. Rehabilitation is carefully progressed to protect the hip while helping you rebuild movement and return to the activities that matter to you.

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  • Hip osteoarthritis can cause pain, stiffness, reduced mobility, and difficulty with walking, stairs, getting in and out of the car, or putting on socks and shoes.

    Many people worry that arthritis automatically means surgery, but physiotherapy can often help manage symptoms, improve strength, maintain movement, and keep you active for longer.

    Treatment focuses on helping the hip move better, strengthening the muscles around the hip and pelvis, managing flare-ups, and giving you practical strategies to stay active with confidence.

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  • GTPS, or greater trochanteric pain syndrome, is a common cause of pain on the outside of the hip.

    It is often linked to irritation of the gluteal tendons and surrounding soft tissues. Symptoms may be worse when lying on the affected side, walking, climbing stairs, running, or standing for long periods.

    Physiotherapy helps by reducing irritation, improving glute strength, addressing movement patterns, and gradually rebuilding the hip’s tolerance to daily activity and exercise.

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  • A hip replacement is a surgical procedure where a damaged or painful hip joint is replaced with an artificial joint.

    Physiotherapy plays an important role both before and after surgery. Before surgery, treatment can help improve strength, mobility, and confidence so you are better prepared for recovery.

    After surgery, rehabilitation focuses on restoring movement, rebuilding hip and glute strength, improving walking pattern, reducing stiffness, and helping you return to normal daily activities safely.

  • Hip resurfacing is a surgical option used in some cases of hip joint damage, often for younger or more active patients.

    Unlike a full hip replacement, hip resurfacing preserves more of the natural bone, but it still requires structured rehabilitation to restore strength, movement, balance, and confidence.

    Physiotherapy after hip resurfacing helps improve walking, rebuild strength around the hip and pelvis, restore control, and support a gradual return to work, exercise, and sport where appropriate.

  • Hamstring tendinopathy is irritation or overload of the hamstring tendon, often felt as deep pain around the sitting bone or back of the hip.

    It is common in runners, athletes, gym-goers, and people who spend long periods sitting. Symptoms may be aggravated by running, bending, lunging, deadlifting, hill walking, or sitting on firm surfaces.

    Treatment focuses on reducing tendon irritation, improving hamstring and glute strength, managing training load, and gradually rebuilding the tendon’s ability to cope with activity.

  • An adductor or groin strain happens when the muscles on the inside of the thigh are overstretched or overloaded.

    This type of injury is common in sports that involve sprinting, kicking, twisting, changing direction, or sudden acceleration. Pain is usually felt in the groin or inner thigh and may be worse with running, side-to-side movement, kicking, or squeezing the legs together.

    Physiotherapy helps restore movement, reduce pain, rebuild adductor strength, improve hip and pelvic control, and guide a safe return to training, work, and sport.

  • Hip flexor overload can cause pain, tightness, or discomfort at the front of the hip. It is often linked to running, kicking, gym training, prolonged sitting, or repeated movements that involve lifting the knee.

    Snapping hip syndrome can create a clicking, catching, or snapping sensation around the front or side of the hip. This may or may not be painful, but when the area becomes irritated, it can affect walking, running, lifting, and sport.

    Treatment focuses on identifying what is overloading the hip flexors, improving hip and pelvic control, restoring strength, and gradually reducing irritation so movement feels smoother and more comfortable

Hip & Pelvis Resources & Treatments