Hip pain treatment for the ache that follows you to bed.

Yes. Book it online and your first session is the Blueprint Assessment. If the assessment shows the programme is not right for you, we refund everything except the assessment. You can also cancel within 14 days of booking and pay only for the sessions you have used. Prefer to meet first? Book the Blueprint Assessment on its own, and if you go ahead the £129 comes off the programme.

Usually not. Stopping completely tends to lower what the hip can take, so it flares again when you go back. We agree what your hip can handle at your assessment and adjust your running, walking and gym work around it.

The programme usually runs over six to eight weeks. Hip tendons can be slow to settle, and your assessment sets the plan for your hip. You leave with the plan to carry on.

If it is not moving, the plan changes, or we refer you on.

No. Alexander is an ISRM Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapist, not a registered physiotherapist. Physiotherapy on this site describes a type of service, not a registration. If your case needs a registered clinician or a doctor, we tell you and refer you.

We do not work with private medical insurers. We provide a full receipt and a paid invoice for every session, so if your policy or health cash plan reimburses treatment, you can claim it back yourself.

In active adults the most common cause of pain on the outside of the hip is gluteal tendinopathy, where the tendons of the buttock muscles attach to the side of the hip bone. You may also hear it called greater trochanteric pain syndrome or hip bursitis. Other causes include tight or overloaded hip flexors at the front, wear in the hip joint, and pain referred from the lower back. Your assessment tells us which you have before a single exercise is set.

Lying on the sore side presses directly on the tendons, and lying on the other side lets the top knee drop across, which squeezes them too. A pillow between your knees often helps while it settles.

Not usually, if the pain is on the outside of the hip. Stretches that pull the leg across your body press on the tendon and can keep it irritated. Building strength around the hip is what changes it.

Sometimes it is the back. Pain in the buttock or down the leg can come from the lower back, which is why the assessment checks both before anything is treated.

Usually not. Scans often show changes that are just as common in people with no hip pain at all. Imaging helps after a fall, when progress stalls, or when the joint itself is suspected, and we will tell you if yours is one of those.

Runners and walkers who have stepped up their distance, people returning to the gym, and anyone who sits for long hours. Pain on the outside of the hip is most common from your forties onwards. We see it at both clinics, in Kings Cross and in Hampstead, and the assessment and the programme are the same at each.

Go to A&E or urgent care if you have had a fall and cannot put weight on the leg, or if the hip is hot, red and swollen and you feel unwell or feverish.

See your GP first if pain wakes you at night and does not ease with any position, if you have lost weight without trying, if a runner has a deep groin ache that worsens with every run and hurts at rest, or if you have numbness, tingling or weakness down the leg. We screen for all of these at your assessment and refer you on if your case needs it.