Experiencing Hip Pain? Looking for easy-to-use products to aid in your recovery or manage your symptoms?
Self Help Products For Hip Pain
Explore our range of Self Help products, designed to help you manage your hip pain at home, at work, or on the go!
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As recommended by:
Dr. Alison Grimaldi
Clinician, Researcher & Educator
In my self help shop, I have a curated list of self help products that aim to reduce hip and pelvic pain, and aid in overall recovery or symptom management. These are products that I have found to be most useful for patients with various hip and pelvic conditions.
There are so many products available online now, that it can be hard to know what will be most helpful. Particularly some of the lower priced items found online, are often of poor quality and effectiveness. I tried a lot of products with my patients before I found this range. I hope you'll find them useful as well.
Cushions for hip pain
A range of Support and Pressure Relief Cushions
In our Self Help Shop for Hip Pain, you will find a range of sitting cushions for various hip and pelvic pain conditions. On this page, you will find featured products that I've personally used in my clinic, and tested or used on my own chairs.
Each item has been carefully selected based on their effectiveness and popularity among my patients, ensuring you find the best support for your needs. Our collection is designed to help you sit more comfortably, reducing pain and pressure and improving your sitting tolerance and therefore effectiveness at completing tasks you need to do in sitting.
Scroll down to take a look at my favorites. You can also explore a much wider range of cushions and other supports on my main pillow page.
Our Top Recommended Cushions for Hip and Pelvic Pain
The posture wedge cushion is a great option for many hip conditions that are aggravated by a sustained position of high hip flexion. Getting your hips higher than your knees in sitting can help reduce sitting pain associated with:
- hip labral tears,
- hip osteoarthritis,
- Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome,
- hip dysplasia,
- gluteal tendinopathy or hip bursitis, and
- lower back conditions.
Great for the car or lounge chairs, where the seat naturally brings your knees higher than your hips, compressing sensitive structures at the front or side of the hips. Use the wedge cushion to level up, and sit more comfortably for longer periods.
This pressure relief cushion is very useful for those who become uncomfortable in the sitting bones, buttocks or thighs with the pressure of sustained sitting.
The waffle foam allows pressure to be dispersed and circulation to flow more easily. We have found this cushion to be particularly useful for those with:
- proximal hamstring tendinopathy (tender sitting bones),
- piriformis syndrome or deep gluteal syndrome (sciatic nerve irritation),
- coccydynia, and
- general sensitivity when sitting for prolonged periods or on harder surfaces.
Use this cushion at work, in the car, when travelling or when sitting to watch sport, the theatre, television or when playing games with friends and family.
The coccyx cushion may be required for those with a particularly sensitive coccyx (tip of the tailbone) - coccydynia. Coccydynia most commonly develops as a result of trauma (fall onto the tailbone or childbirth), or in response to prolonged sitting or rocking over the tailbone (rowing, V type situps).
The cutout in this coccyx cushion completely removes direct pressure from the coccyx, and the wedge shape redistributes a little more weight to the thighs, with less on the tailbone. You might also like to try this together with a lumbar support roll.
Nighttime comfort for Hip Pain
Get a better night's sleep with a mattress overlay
In our Self Help Shop for Hip Pain, we also have some mattress overlays that can make a huge difference for some people with sleep disturbance related to hip or pelvic pain.
Getting a better night's sleep is just so important for your physical and mental wellbeing. Pain levels are often higher in those who consistently struggle to get a good night's sleep.
If you are waking regularly with hip or pelvic pain, you may find benefit from a mattress overlay, to reduce pressure or provide a cooler environment for sleep.
Explore the range of mattress toppers here and find my recommendations below.
Need a better night's sleep? Try a mattress topper if hip or buttock pain related to mattress pressure is disturbing your sleep.
Our Top Recommended Mattress Toppers for Hip and Pelvic Pain
My patients love the waffle mattress topper (body huggar mattress topper). This overlay can really help to reduce the pressure on those bony points at the side of the hips (and shoulders) when lying on your side, or sensitivity in the buttocks, back and thighs, when lying on your back.
For others who get pain relief from cooler environments, you might like to try this cooling gel mattress pad.
Great for the summer, especially in Australia! And also helpful for women with menopausal hot flushes that are disturbing their sleep.
Heat and Cooling Therapy for Hip Pain
A range of Hot and Cold Therapy Packs to ease your hip and pelvic pain
In our Self Help Shop for Hip Pain, you'll find a range of Heating and Cooling Therapy products for hip and pelvic pain.
I love these Lupin heat/cold packs. The lupin grains are much lighter than wheat, so they are more comfortable on tender areas, and are much easier to carry in your luggage without using too much of your weight allowance!
These lupin packs can also be used for both heating (heat in the microwave) or cooling (keep them in the fridge. Grab a pack and you can test out whether heat or cooling provides best relief for your condition.
Heat is often most relieving for chronic/long standing conditions and for relieving muscle tension, but shouldn't be used within 48 hours of an acute injury. Outside this window, you can use either heat or cold therapy, whatever provides best relief.
There are also a range of other cooling pads and pillows for you to explore in the THERAPY tab - click the button below, and look for therapy in the top, right hand menu bar.
These are a couple of my favourite hot pack and cold packs for hip and pelvic pain.
You can also use them anywhere else around your body to ease aches and pains, and relieve muscle tension.
Our Top Recommended Heat/Cooling Therapy for Hip and Pelvic Pain
This large lupin pack allows you to cover a large area at the same time. This is great for those with lower back and pelvic pain, or pelvic and buttock or hip pain.
Even though this is a large pack, the lupin keeps the pack much lighter than a traditional wheat pack.
Use these packs for either heating ( in the microwave) or cooling (store in the fridge).
This lower back - hip heat/cold wrap is super convenient, because you can velcro it around your back or pelvis while you sit or go about your household tasks.
You can vary the location - wear higher for lower back and pelvic/sacral pain, or lower for pelvic and buttock pain. You can also wear it to the side when sitting or lying, to provide heat or cold directly to the side of the hip.
Urban Poles for Hip Pain
A range of Walking Poles to get you active again
In our Self Help Shop, you will find a range of lightweight poles designed to improve walking comfort and reduce pain.
These walking poles have been carefully selected based on their effectiveness and popularity among those experiencing hip, knee, foot, ankle, and lower back pain, ensuring you find the best support for your needs. These Nordic Walking Poles have been designed to help reduce pain and discomfort while walking, promoting better mobility and helping you get back to doing the things you love.
Scroll down to explore the benefits, and you can also check out a the entire selection of walking aids and supports on the linked page.
Do you experience hip or pelvic pain when walking?
Make walking easier with these Urban Walking Poles!
Reduce your Pain
Maintain or Increase Activity
Assist your Recovery
Enjoy Walking Again
Why use Walking Poles?
Deloading – can reduce strain on pain hip and pelvic joints and adjacent areas, like your knee and lower back.
Balance – feel safer and more secure as you walk.
Posture – promotes a more upright position, which is less fatiguing for your back and hip extensor muscles.
Stamina – walk further, faster and more often.
Cardio – up to 25% more cardio workout than normal walking.
Weight Management – burns up to 46% more calories than normal walking.
Core Strengthening – an abs contraction with every step
Whole Body Workout – use muscles throughout your body
Enjoyment – feel safer, more supported and in less pain and enjoy walking again
What conditions do Walking poles help the most?
Walking Poles can help to reduce pain walking felt in the hip, the pelvis and or the lower back, as well as further down the leg into the knee and ankle. As such, they may benefit most musculoskeletal conditions in these areas!
If you have a specific condition, consult your physician or therapist before using Walking Poles or if you are currently using or have been recommended to use other devices for walking.
Walking Poles can also help with improving mobility after surgery, and those with health conditions affecting walking, such as:
- Post hip surgery / post knee surgery
- Parkinson’s
- Stroke
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Chronic Pain
- Cancer Rehab
- Spinal Conditions
- Fall Prevention
If you have any of these conditions, consult your physician or therapist before using the Walking Poles or if you are currently using or have been recommended to use other devices for walking.
Some Great Features of Activator Urban Poles:
- Button locking system for greater weight-bearing capacity
- Maximum User Weight 250 lb (114 kg)
- Weight-bearing per pole 200 lb (90 kg)
- Patented ergonomic Coregrip designed for core strengthening, balance and off-loading while reducing strain on the wrist
- Bell shaped tip for stability
- Wide ledge instead of a strap to reduce the risk of injury
- 3 Anti-vibration features to minimize stress on joints
- Adjustable to user heights to 6′ (182 cm) & ACTIVATOR 2 is 6’4″ (193 cm)
- 2-section collapsible poles for travel
- Includes a user guide
- Click here to watch our video on how to adjust your ACTIVATOR Poles and learn the ACTIVATOR Technique
- FDA registered
You might also be interested in our Self Help Courses. Where you can understand your condition, learn how to reduce pain during everyday life and activity, and start an exercise program that has been tailored to a specific hip condition.
For Health Professionals - Help For Your Patients
A range of Self Help Products for your Patients
If you are a health professional treating patients with hip pain, you can find my recommendations above, for Self Help products that can help get hip pain under control more quickly and/or assist with managing symptoms in those with chronic conditions. Carefully selected assistive devices can complement your treatment program, and may provide earlier and more optimal outcomes.
However, there are so many products available online now, that it can be hard for clinicians to know what will be most helpful for our patients. Particularly some of the lower priced items found online, are often of poor quality and effectiveness. I have tried a lot of products with my patients before I found this range, which I would love to share with you!
You might like to point patients towards this page, order the items for your patient, or try the products yourself. Scroll back up the pain to see my recommendations for chair cushions, mattress overlays and hot/cold packs. Click the button below to explore a much wider range of high-quality assistive devices.