Hip pain and tight hips, what to do? | Q&A

[@AtacSB]

Dear Alfons, I've been following you more than a year now, and practicing these movement sequences to manage my overall pain issues. Every video is unique on its own way and they've been so helpful. You're such an enthusiastic and lively instructor that it is always a pleasure to do your lessons. Thank you so much and greetings from Turkey!

[@suzanneadamson1306]

We're lucky to have access to such an excellent clinician as Alfons. He's brilliant.

[@suesingh4130]

you have a passion of being innovative, you always make your videos interesting

[@svetlanaristic5754]

Thank you from Serbia 🇷🇸

[@shukry59]

Thank you so much I have benefited from your exersises to overcome some stubborn joints and hip pain and your personality is part of solution (bahrain)

[@migdaliarosado4137]

Hi. There! this is the excerise that makes me feel back to normal.. Thank you!!💐

[@dafe3795]

I like these short and concise videos, thank you 💓

[@helenaberger-heppner7412]

Informative, clear and varied hip elevations

[@lmccism]

Very helpful & clear, thankyou.

[@lesaallen4080]

Thank you. I will sure to try these excercise out. Video was helpful

[@cinmac3]

There are many methods many all seem to do a little something for me. Maybe more than I know after doing some of these movements there is no more pain.

[@deborabatista9383]

Thank you from Brazil!

[@violetteoudkerk5714]

Very helpful and 'easy'...your videos are part of my daily routine and complement my karate and chikung practice very well. Many thanks!!!

[@peacerus]

Thank you for the homework!

[@blissfulbaboon]

GREAT VIDEO!!!Thank you!

[@herberar]

Thank you so much Alfons ! Found your advice very useful and sincere. I also enjoy the way you explain the movements and your complete lack of " misticism " Thanks again. Im suscribing right now.

[@vickiwhite1816]

Have a lot of hip pain, mostly from my lower back. That's what I've been told, as I had back surgery over 20 years ago (for a cyst in my spinal cord, which is still there.) These exercises look very helpful. VW

[@ImprovingAbility]

Hi, maybe try my „Getting Better Day By Day“ series from 2023 first, and then move on to my „Hip joints“ series. View my videos as a way to gather knowledge and new strategies rather than a tool to fix problems. With time invested and knowledge gained usually the problems get less and the pain free periods increase, and new pathways open. I wish you all the best!

[@vickiwhite1816]

@@ImprovingAbility Thank you very much for this and your encouragement! 😃

[@deirdreosullivan7292]

Thanks again.

[@maggiescheffer6212]

I have pain and tightness in the right hip, glutes, groin and i-t muscle down into the knee, on nearly a daily basis. This has been going on for about 15 years, with the knee pain developing this past year. I have practiced the exercises in this video along with several other of your longer videos. Relief is evident, but returns again within hours or by the next day. How long do you suggest I keep at these exercises to get lasting results, and do you think it is even possible for me to have that kind of success? I also have pelvic floor weakness -- are these two complaints related?

[@ImprovingAbility]

Hi Maggie, I do think there can be improvement. I wouldn’t call it “lasting”, since obviously everything organic needs maintenance, but surely I think everyone can arrive at a better plateau. You would need to find out the cause of your pains, is it a disc/joint issue in the spine/back radiating down to the right? Or is it in the leg radiating up? Or something else, like glued up fascia, muscles not gliding but sticking to the bones and chronically constricting, or maybe even chronic inflammation? Lack or overdose of certain proteins or other food compounds? I’m walking in the dark here, I would need to see you and work with you to make more informed guesses. However, you are committed to finding a solution, and not shy to put in the necessary work and research, that’s crucial, and great! Keep going, I wish you all the best! 👍😊

[@maggiescheffer6212]

Feldenkrais with Alfons it is so nice and helpful of you to put so much consideration into this! I will continue on this maintenance course with special attention to what my body is telling me. Thanks for what you do to help lessen suffering in the world.

[@P_Belle]

@@ImprovingAbility - this response was * gold*!

[@jhwaltjim]

Very helpful...thank you.

[@charmmyourself6800]

Hi Alfons! I have chronic psoas pain on my right side and I’m wondering what videos of your you suggest specifically for this? I’m not sure the cause of it I’ve been to a rolfer for 8-9 sessions but had to stop going recently, she would help release the psoas but it always comes back. Thanks so much! Love your work!

[@TubesSD]

Alfons, I have been doing Feldenkrais for almost two years... I only know one or two instructors... I learn much from you when you are 'wondering' out loud about a movement. My observation is that my instructor emphasises making the movements very small and usually slower. He also says if something hurts do it 'smaller'.... I'm wondering if perhaps you don't hurt anywhere as your movements are quite fast and bigger than I am used to seeing. I do follow with you when you are doing a video, but find I have to slow it down a lot to feel the rhythm of the movements... in fact I slow the settings to follow you in order to feel coordinated. Thank you for your curiosity in the movements.

[@ImprovingAbility]

Hi +Sandra McBride , thank you for your comment ! :-) that's true, I show the movements really fast at times .. I'm experimenting with teaching on video. Sometimes I feel a need to move fast in order to make the video more appealing and easier to remember. Other times I show them slow enough, I hope . Always follow your own lead, and take your time to enjoy, experiment, experience, indulge in your own movements and sensations :-)

[@ImprovingAbility]

+Sandra McBride oh, and yes, we all hurt somewhere. Show me a human who says he has no pain at all, and I show you someone who isn't telling the truth ! ;-) But I do not have hip pain. When I work with clients with hip pain I make sure they move VERY SLOWLY and CAREFULLY. Always avoid pain, and work in the range that's available easily. With time and practice this range will enlarge to all the places... with grace !

[@TubesSD]

What I did find helpful was when you filmed the sequences at normal speed, then at the beginning you speeded it up with the camera so we could get an overview of the sequence in good form. I liked seeing where it was going and how the whole body was involved. This only took a few seconds at the beginning. What was misleading to me was when you actually did the movements faster with your own body. I found that as I was doing the movements with you....(as are others, I'm sure) it took away the 'AWARENESS' component as I became confused when I could not keep up with your speed. Also, it was painful for my hips. When you then guided us through the sequence in real time there were no distractions as we had seen the 'overview' in quick time and everything flowed more smoothly. I would suggest you not worry too much about your video equipment. I'm sure most of us will go with what you have it is very easy to see you and you explain so well what you are doing. I am just grateful for your clarity, knowledge and expertise and generosity in sharing yourself with us.

[@annaronaldhowie7501]

Helpful little video. Will this give stability walking?

[@jeanneadendorf5630]

Hi Alfons I have been doing your wonderful Feldenkrais for nearly 6 months and have experienced improvement.in my long term joint and spine conditions and also in eyes and vision. .I have so much enjoyed your classes and your dedicated, caring way of teaching with humour too. i still have chronic sciatica and lumbar spine and S.I. joint problems and discovered from one of your classes that I was not lengthening my spine downward when using my glutes as if pushing on the bicycle seat bur always pinching them tightly together sideways and that seemed to have made everything worse. so have changed this and my neutral spine is now better. I wonder, like with this exercise, do you ever pinch glutes together or is is always downward. Thinking of the shoulder arm where the joint range is to move up and down as well back and forward and in circles -???don't know if I am explaining well . . . .I would love to come to classes but I am in South Africa so do so greatly appreciate your openhearted generosity!

[@ImprovingAbility]

Hi Jeanne, I wanted to record a comprehensive glutes class for long time, but never got around it so far. I hope it will happen soon... Not sure how to answer your question at the moment here in the comments.

[@jeanneadendorf5630]

@@ImprovingAbility thanks I work on it too - just thinking that the SI joints are not normally movable therefore the "butterfly

[@مفلحالشمري-ز4ر]

I can’t do asign squat what routine should I follow ?

[@perwetano]

Great alfoooonssss 🙌🙌🙌

[@MrSoundofsilence]

Thank you :)

[@marcymead642]

Do you make your own table? I’ve never seen a Feldenkrais table quite like it.

[@ImprovingAbility]

Yes, I wanted a modern looking table. It was designed by a famous bed designer here in Austria. It looks very light, almost like floating, but it is stable as a rock, even when you sit on the very edge of the table. It's very safe and trust-instilling especially for senior age clients. It has a steel base and weighs 100 kg (220 pounds). It's now in storage in Austria, up for sale.

[@andyjalil1021]

What is your opinion on doing weighted squats?

[@joycesingarajah1277]

Which exercise good and pain relief for sciatica pain

[@Wendygaechter]

Are you engaging abs or doing pelvic tilt while lifting? Or just buttocks do the work?

[@ImprovingAbility]

The focus of this video is hip extension with glutes activation, but as you imply everything needs to work together.. the back muscles, the front muscles, the leg muscles… I would suggest posterior pelvic tilt not so much in this sequence, because here (in this particular sequence) the core muscles stabilise the torso. I hope this clarifies my thinking? Thank you for asking!

[@MrkyMrk1]

Alfons, who makes that table?

[@ImprovingAbility]

it’s custom made in Austria

[@mariamnewulfn1389]

Pelvic 'stability' ( the word you were searching for). In pushing up the hips, it is good to image the heals expanding and moving back, rather than forward. The toes can move forward, and the heels should expand back in direction of shoulders, activating hamstrings and flutes into the hip joint (often helping to alleviate the structural errors causing inflammation in hips). Magnesium and possibly potassium for the cramps. Dark chocolate good source for blood type 'O's (magnesium). Magnesium Supplements are often hard to assimilate, especially those on medications. Supplements of magnesium may create diarrhea because the body has difficulty assimilating. Problem is world wide, top soil depletion.

[@ImprovingAbility]

Hi +Mariamne Wulfsohn , thank you for your excellent tips and sharing ! Yes, pulling back the heels makes sense, will explore+research this further :-) " top soil depletion" pitiful state our biosphere is in :-( I love the teachings of Victor Schauberger. He speculated that minerals and noble metals are generically produced by plants, "urgezeugt" in german language. But for this to happen they need large forests, untouched by humans.

[@gregorytaylor9104]

Transdermal magnesium supplementation is the most effective, cheap and enjoyable way to get magnesium. A magnesium chloride or Epsom's salts footbath is wonderfully relaxing. Search for bulk suppliers in your country.

[@luzarsacdetoro903]

Top!

[@zahidameher1697]

Very informative, but too lengthy.

[@ManjaWeijers]

cramps, might be a weak glut ;)

[@cinmac3]

ManjaWeijers how do you know that?