There are major problems with the hip arthritis stage system used in healthcare.

Doctors use the arthritis stage system to help them determine how close you are to needing hip joint replacement surgery.

Stage 2 and stage 3 are usually when surgery might be recommended for some people.

Stage 4, which is the end stage or the last stage, is when there is usually no other option left but a hip replacement surgery.

A major problem with the hip osteoarthritis stages system is that it assumes that cartilage will never heal. In other words, if you're told you are in stage 3 based on the x-ray then the surgeon is usually assuming your hip joint is becoming ""bone-on-bone"" because the space in the joint is decreased.

Based on the decreased space in the hip joint, then the hip surgeon will likely tell you that the cartilage is damaged or lost...and they'll likely never tell you that it can heal.

Partially because they don't ever see people heal their own hip joint cartilage because they don't know that it's possible. It's just not a surgeon's specialty. They went to school to learn to cut out cartilage, not to learn how to help it become healthy.

Another major problem with using the stages of hip arthritis is that they assume that your hip joint cannot function once you have damage or loss of hip cartilage.

Once you have a suspected damage to the cartilage or a loss of cartilage based on the imaging of your hip joint, then surgeons start to say things like, "The cartilage is worn down, that's why it hurts," or "There is no more cartilage and your hip is only going to get worse as you age."

But what we see everyday with the hip arthritis patients we treat is that it is possible to get better by TAKING PRESSURE OFF the hip joint, even when there is suspected hip joint damage.

The reason for this is that when you off load the hip joint by fixing the root muscle imbalance, it causes the hip joint to move correctly and redistributes the bad pressures to where they should go - where the hip joint is designed to take pressure.

Very often this leads to a person with painful "bone-on-bone" stage 3 hip arthritis getting back to being active and healthy again...even though the surgeon recommended a hip replacement surgery.

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00:00 - 4 Stages Of Hip Arthritis
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01:13 - Stage 1
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07:47 - Stage 4
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