Pain during physiotherapy

Pain may occur during physiotherapy for hip arthrosis. The following forms of pain can be tolerated to a tolerable extent without any concern: If pain occurs during the exercises or immediately after the exercises, the therapist must always be consulted in order to identify the cause of the pain and, if necessary, to find alternative treatments or to enable a correction of the exercise performance.

Stretching pain
Pain during trigger point therapy
Sore muscles

Pain during stretching can hardly be avoided in cases of structural shortening of muscles and ligaments in order to achieve an improvement in the range of motion.

In stretching exercises, light to moderate pulling in the muscles to be stretched is therefore common. However, the pain should never be so strong that one tenses against the movement. This not only prevents the effect of stretching, but at the same time strengthens the muscles to be lengthened.

Pain can often occur during soft tissue treatment / trigger point therapy. Tense and shortened musculature tends to form pain points (trigger points), even sticky tissue (the individual tissue layers can no longer move well against each other) can react sensitively to pressure or stretching. Manual forms of massage, trigger therapy or stretching techniques by the therapist can cause relatively strong pain at times.

Here too, the pain should be tolerable. Tense tenseness reduces the success of the therapy and is not necessary.The therapist should be told if the pain is too severe that he can adjust the pressure or intensity of his treatment. Muscle ache is a form of pain that can occur one or two days after strengthening exercises and should be relieved after another two to three days.

It is important that the sore muscles occur in the right muscle groups, this should be discussed with the therapist. If pain occurs elsewhere, consultation should be made. It is possible that exercises are not performed correctly, or that the exercises have been chosen incorrectly.

Aching muscles is a form of pain that can occur one to two days after strengthening exercises and should be relieved after another two to three days. It is important that the sore muscles occur in the right muscle groups, this should be discussed with the therapist. If pain occurs elsewhere, consultation should be made. It is possible that exercises are not performed correctly, or that the exercises have been chosen incorrectly.