What has helped my left hip pain is a combination of three things. The
first is glucosomamine. The second is lightly loaded walking on uneven
surfaces. Uneven surfaces stop you adopting a completely fixed
repetitive gait. Highly repetitive movements are popular these days
for muscle growth but IMHO they're bad news for joints. The third is
losing weight. The glucosamine doesn't seem to work at all unless I
exercise with it.

However joint pains seem to be very individual. While glucosamine
(puls exercise) helps my hip a lot, it hasn't the slightest effect on
my knees. What helps them the most is just knee strengthening
exercises plus avoiding straight-legged impacts when going down hills
or stairs. The problem as I got older was that I lost leg strength so
I couldn't easily catch and hold my weight on a bent knee. That meant
that when I was going down I would stretch out a relatively straight
leg and then drop down cautiously onto it. However cautiously that is
done the knee joint takes a terrible wallop. But the only way of
avoiding those damaging knee impacts is to divert them via a bent
knee joint into the leg muscles. But you can't do that if you haven't
the leg strength to confidently catch your weight on a bent knee.

That's how a vicious circle can start. Once my knees had started
hurting I stopped using my legs as much so my leg muscles got even
weaker. And less exercise probably contributed to my getting heavier.
So I was trapped in a vicious circle of painful knees which were
forcing me into behaviour which was increasing the damage to my knees.

I think many of us deal with these sorts of problems. Last week, I
could barely walk from low back pain and leg pain from sciatica...

This week, it has cleared up for no, at least

I really hope you ladies can get a handle on the hip problems, so you
can remain active.....

Will, T2

Have not had that one yet.
K

Ben, I think New York has the same law, feet and ankles

Loretta