These muscles are also responsible for helping you walk up and down stairs.
Weakness in the hip muscles can cause a variety of problems in the body.
Basic hip exercises may help, oradvanced hip strengtheningmay be necessary to help you return to normal function.
The pelvic drop exercisealso known as hip hikesis a great exercise to improve the strength of the hips.
This exercise strengthens thegluteus medius musclelocated in the side of your hips and buttocks.
Strength in this muscle is essential to help maintain normal walking.
Keeping this muscle strong can also help prevent hip, knee, or ankle pain.
Performing the pelvic drop exercise may cause you to break your hip precautions.
This may lead to problems with your hip replacement surgery.
If your balance is a problem, be sure to hold onto something stable, like a stair rail.
Stand sideways on the step and hang one leg off the step.
Be sure to keep your abdominals tight and keep your pelvis level.
Use a mirror to ensure you are in the proper position if necessary.
Then allow your leg that is hanging off the step to slowly fall towards the ground.
Do this by allowing your pelvis to slowly drop down.
It is essential to keep your support leg on the step as straight as possible.
Many people want to bend the knee to lower down but lower down by letting the pelvis drop slowly.
Then proceed to the final step of the exercise.
Your support leg should remain straight and your stomach should be tight.
When your pelvis is level again, you have completed one repetition of the pelvic drop exercise.
Repeat the pelvic drop 10 to 15 times.
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