lateral hip numbness from cycling need help

[gggoodman]

Noticed a burning and then a numbness on the outside or lateral part of the hip after about 2 hours of cycling. It would go away the next day. Last week we went for 5 hours and I felt the same feeling after a couple hours and thought I could work it out. It didn't go away and I've still have the numbness in this area a week later. Anyone have any ideas on the cause or experienced this before? I've had ART and a chioropratic adjustment but still no relief. I've had many injuries but don't know how to go about treating this one.

[mattw]

Noticed a burning and then a numbness on the outside or lateral part of the hip after about 2 hours of cycling. It would go away the next day. Last week we went for 5 hours and I felt the same feeling after a couple hours and thought I could work it out. It didn't go away and I've still have the numbness in this area a week later. Anyone have any ideas on the cause or experienced this before? I've had ART and a chioropratic adjustment but still no relief. I've had many injuries but don't know how to go about treating this one.

You need to address your hip and spine position - meaning your posture. You have developed some postural imbalances that are exacerbated by your cycling. It should be pretty easy to fix. Buy the book "Pain Free" by Pete Egoscue and find the exercise called Supine Groin Progressive. Do this exactly as described every day (on both legs!) followed by an Airbench. This should take care of the symptom and then go to the "conditioning menu" in the back of the book and do that daily to maintain your newly realigned posture. AND make sure to do Supine Groin Progressive after every bike ride.

You should feel big changes quickly. Let me know how it goes. Matt. matt@egoscue.com