- Do you struggle with hip pain that keeps you up at night?
- Don't worry, we've got you covered.
We're gonna show you some sleep positions
that are gonna help eliminate this problem
so you can sleep all night long comfortably, like me.
- And me.
(Brad laughing)
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- But first, back to the video,
we're gonna be talking about the three positions
that you should avoid while sleeping if you have hip pain.
And what are these?
They're all thumbs down.
- Thumbs down, that's right.
In other words, we're gonna avoid them.
- [Mike] Yes.
- Yeah, all right, the first thumbs down is
stay away from sleeping on the point of your hip.
Show 'em, Mike.
- So right now we're talking about my left hip here.
So if I'm laying laterally right on it,
it's gonna put a lot of pressure on it
and it's not gonna feel good.
I personally had this issue before
and this was not an option for me to lay like this.
- That's right, and my wife just had this issue
about three weeks ago.
- Oh?
- She asked me for help and naturally, I concurred,
and she's fine now.
- Oh, well that's good.
- It's true.
- And number two thumbs down is
stretching out those hip tissues, the hip on top.
- So we're talking about my right hip right now.
Again, it's more lateral pain.
Right now my hip is abducting and stretching,
and it's gonna put a lot of pressure on that lateral hip
and it's not gonna feel good if you're having pain.
- And the third and final thumbs down
is lying prone or on your stomach.
Go ahead, Mike.
- So if you have tight hip flexors
you might actually be pulling your pelvis into a tilt
and you actually might be kind of having your butt
up in the air like this,
and it's not gonna be very comfortable.
So you do not wanna sleep on your stomach.
However, we're gonna get into the thumbs up categories
and show you ways you can still sleep in these positions,
but you're gonna use pillows to help.
- Great.
So go ahead, go to your kids' room and grab their pillows.
You're gonna need 'em. (Mike and Brad laughing)
All right, for the first thumbs up
to correct taking pressure off the point of the hip,
as we mentioned, you're gonna need some pillows.
Go ahead. - Yeah, so this will be
if you're gonna lay on the side that is painful,
you wanna put a pillow underneath by your ribcage,
kind of above your pelvis like this.
And it's gonna take some pressure off of the lateral hip
because it's gonna be going through the pillow.
If this feels good,
you can just start with that and stay with that.
If this is still problematic,
you could try putting another pillow under your ankles.
This is gonna externally rotate your hip.
So we're talking about the bottom leg again,
taking more pressure off of that lateral hip pain.
And you can try this for a sleeping position.
- I don't know about you, Mike,
but I think I would just lay on the other side.
(Mike chuckling) - That is also an option, too.
(Brad laughing)
- But no, seriously, some people have a big habit
of laying on one side
and they just cannot sleep any other way.
Okay, the next thumb up we wanna address,
that painful, stretched out hip on top.
How do we use pillows for this, Mike?
- So this is like Brad was just talking about,
sleeping on the good side, painful side on top,
but you're still gonna stretch it
if you're keeping your knees together,
touching like this, so-
- Especially if you go like this.
- Yes, you're really stretching it out.
- Yeah. Sorry to interrupt. - So, you can grab a pillow
and simply put it between your knees.
You can try different positions.
You can go like this,
or if you wanna get the whole leg,
you can go the long way, like this.
You could try different thickness pillows.
You could try one or two.
It's gonna depend upon your body's shape and size.
Oh, we're stacking 'em up in there.
So this feels nice.
You also don't get the knees bumping,
and it takes that lateral stretch off of this hip.
- Yeah, I personally like this method right here,
between the ankles and the knees,
and it really gives me the thumbs up.
And lastly, let's address prone or lying on your stomach.
Let's go to it, Mike.
- So stomach sleepers, if you do have tight hips
what you can do is just place a pillow down
on your stomach region right here
and just lay like this.
And this should take the pressure
off of those tight hip flexors.
You can mess with the amount of pillows
you are using here as well,
and that will take even more pressure off.
Over time, if you can, try to eliminate the pillow,
and that'll actually give you
some passive hip flexor stretching.
- That's right.
So those hip flexors can really be some problems.
And it's gonna take pressure off of your low back, as well.
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- And?
- Have a good day.
- And?
- Goodbye.
- Thank you for watching.
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