19 yrs old, 6 years of hip problems.

[Eleanor]

I cant thank you enough. Even if that isn't what I have at least I know a little more about my body. I do jut my hips forwards when I stand and my knees are always pushed back. I never knew bad posture could end up so badly :s

I will definately start some sort of excersise regime and slowly build up my strength.

Thank you so much for the images too. The physio did mention the muscles but couldn't explain them as thoroughly as the images and I could never remember their names.

So, excersise is the way forward. Thank you for clearing this up for me.

(once again, I understand this is just speculative, but it does seem to make a lot of sense to me)

Oh, and are the clicky hips part of this, or or do they click because of something else?

[Quickstart]

The hip clicking can technically be explained by this particular problem. When that muscle gets tight, the tendon is more prone to flicking quickly over one of the bony bits at the front of the pelvis. This frequently causes pain and can cause a sensation of something moving in the front of the hip.

There are other causes of the clicking hip of course.

One is the iliotibial band (ITB) that causes snapping on the outside of the hip. The last is that there is something disrupting the internal mechanics of the hip -- like a piece of bone, cartilage or something else. If the exercise programme does not work, then I would advocate a CT/MRI to just clear something like that.

Hope you find some relief from this.

Cheers,
Quickstart