• Joint Mobilizations/Manipulations: Skilled hands-on techniques applied to the hip joint and surrounding structures to improve joint play, reduce stiffness, and restore normal arthrokinematics (movement of joint surfaces). This can help address capsular restrictions often seen in FAI.
• Soft Tissue Mobilization: Direct pressure and movement to release tension in muscles, tendons, and ligaments around the hip that may be contributing to impingement or pain.

Myofascial Release (MFR)

• Targets the fascia, the connective tissue that surrounds muscles, organs, and nerves. In FAI, fascial restrictions in the hip flexors, adductors, gluteal muscles, and even the lumbar spine can contribute to altered hip mechanics and pain.
• Techniques involve sustained pressure and gentle stretching to release these restrictions, improving tissue elasticity, reducing pain, and restoring movement.

• A manual therapy technique that uses the patient’s own muscle contractions to achieve relaxation and lengthening of muscles, and to mobilize restricted joints.
• For FAI, MET can be used to improve hip range of motion, particularly internal rotation and flexion, by addressing tight hip flexors, adductors, and deep hip rotators.

• A patented soft tissue system that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and nerves. Overuse injuries can lead to the formation of adhesions (scar tissue) within these tissues.
• ART involves applying specific tension by the therapist while the patient actively moves the affected body part through a specific range of motion. This helps to break up adhesions, restore normal tissue texture, and improve nerve glide.

• Utilizes specialized stainless steel or other material instruments to detect and treat soft tissue restrictions.
• The instruments allow the therapist to identify areas of fibrosis, scar tissue, and chronic inflammation more effectively than manual palpation alone.
• By applying pressure and gliding the instruments along the tissue, IASTM helps to break down adhesions, promote blood flow, and facilitate tissue healing.

Dry Needling

• Involves inserting thin, sterile needles into myofascial trigger points (hyperirritable spots within a taut band of muscle) to alleviate pain and muscle dysfunction.
• While not directly addressing the bony impingement, dry needling can effectively reduce muscle guarding, spasm, and referred pain patterns often associated with FAI, particularly in the hip flexors, adductors, gluteals, and lumbar musculature.

• Applying elastic therapeutic tape to the skin. While not directly treating the underlying bony issue, it can provide several benefits in FAI management:
• Pain Reduction: By lifting the skin, it may decompress pain receptors and improve local circulation.
• Support and Stability: Can provide proprioceptive feedback and support to weakened or fatigued muscles around the hip, without restricting movement.
• Fascial Offload: Can help to reduce tension in certain fascial lines that may be contributing to the impingement.
• Swelling Reduction: Can assist lymphatic drainage.