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By making your step rate match the natural swing time of your leg, your body doesn’t have to actively move the leg but just relaxes at the hip joint.
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That occurs when the bone and socket in the hip joint don't fit properly together, hampering range of motion.
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The posterior approach, the main hip replacement method for many years, involves accessing the hip joint through an incision in the back of the leg – near the top of the femur.
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The labrum is a cartilage ring that follows and cushions the outside rim of the socket of a hip joint.
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This means the hamstrings extend the hip joint as well as flex the knee joint.
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First Known Use of hip joint
1794
Medical Dictionary
hip joint
medical Definition of hip joint
: the ball-and-socket joint comprising the articulation between the femur and the hip bone
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