Hip Injuries & Pains from bowling

There are lots of injuries and pains that you can suffer from, as a bowler.  Many of them have to do with the hips, or areas around the hips.  In fact, there are a surprising number of potential risks, so, it’s important to know how to recognize them. 

Bowler’s Hip: 

Bowler’s Hip is a deceptive title.  It’s actually a sports injury that can happen to almost anyone who plays almost any sport.  It’s not specific to just bowling.  It happens to anyone who repeatedly over extends their hips while twisting their back.  The result is stress on the iliopsoas tendon and the bursa on the inner femur.  Inflammation and pain associated with it can mess up the game of even the best bowler. 

Piriformis Syndrome and Sciatic Nerve Damage: 

The Piriformis is just one of the many powerful muscles in your hip region.  It’s in the back of your hip and it helps with the outward rotation of you hips.  The trouble is that, when you pull that muscle, you can also pinch your sciatic nerve, which is just in back of it.  That can cause you a great deal of pain. 

Trochanteric Bursitis and Femoral Stress Fractures: 

That’s just a fancy name for an inflammation of your bursae?  What are bursae?  Well, they’re sacs full of liquid that form cushions.  They’re right next to your femoral neck, which, by the way, can also be a problem, if it develops a stress fracture from the repeated movements of bowling. 

You see, your hip joints are ball and socket joints.  That means that the ball, or top, of your femur, is supposed to move freely in the joint.  The femoral neck is just below the ball of your femur.  If it’s stress fractured, it will feel a lot like you pulled a muscle.  The big difference is that, if you have a pulled muscle, it won’t hurt as badly if you stop using it.  A femoral fracture will hurt constantly, no matter what position you’re in. Femoral fractures don’t necessarily feel like a leg problem, though.  They can often be mistaken for a hip problem, since they’re right in the same area and can cause shooting pains.  They often happen if you fall or if you stress the area by doing the same motions over and over again, such as when you bowl. 

Arthritis: 

Arthritis in your hip is a double-edged sword.  Arthritis can make everything difficult.  It can hurt to go up and down flights of stairs.  It can even ache horribly when you try to bend over and pick up an object you drop on the ground.  So, it’s not just your bowling game that will suffer, if you have arthritis in your hips.  However it can affect your bowling game in two very different ways.  The first is that you can already have arthritis due to general age.  That arthritis can cause pain in your hips, making it hard for you to bowl your best game. The second problem, though, is that another bowling injury, if not treated properly, can actually cause arthritis.  That can lead to a misdiagnosed problem, since you may assume the arthritis is the root cause of the pain.

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