Hip pain relief in San Francisco.
Hip pain is almost always a pelvic positioning problem. Your hip joint is compressed because the structures around it are out of balance. Dr. Garrett finds the pattern creating your pain and teaches you how to correct it yourself.
The hip is where the pain shows up. But the problem almost always starts somewhere else.
The pattern nobody has explained to you
Your hip is being compressed because the structures around it are out of balance. When parts of your body stop doing their job, your hip joint absorbs forces it was never designed to handle alone. Tightness, pinching, and restricted movement are symptoms of that overload. Most treatments address the hip directly without asking why it's under so much stress in the first place.
Why stretching and strengthening haven't worked
If the areas creating the problem are still out of balance, stretching tight hip flexors or strengthening your glutes can reinforce the same pattern. You get temporarily looser or stronger, but the hip is still being loaded the same way. The pain returns because the root cause hasn't changed.
Why temporary relief stays temporary
Injections, manual therapy, and rest can provide real relief. But if nothing changes the mechanical pattern compressing your hip, the relief fades. The Amari Method addresses both sides of the problem at once: what's overworking releases, what's underworking re-engages, and the hip stops absorbing all the force.
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Where hip pain actually comes from.
The hip joint is a pressure junction. What surrounds it determines how it moves.
Your pelvis is out of position.
When the pelvis tips forward, it compresses the front of the hip joint. This is the single most common pattern Dr. Garrett sees in people with chronic hip pain. It's behind most diagnoses of impingement, labral irritation, hip flexor strain, and groin tightness. It's correctable, usually within the first few sessions.
Parts of your hips have stopped working.
Sitting for hours changes the balance between the front and back of your hips. The front gets tight and overactive. The back stops engaging. When that happens, the hip joint loses its primary stabilizers and other structures take over. That's where the chronic tightness, the pinching, and the feeling that your hip "catches" comes from.
The structures taking over are getting overloaded.
The IT band, piriformis, and hip flexors are often blamed for pain, but they're rarely the original cause. They become overworked because the primary hip mechanics aren't functioning. Releasing them directly without addressing the underlying pattern provides only temporary relief.
Your pattern is specific to you.
Hip pain presents differently in every person. Dr. Garrett assesses your individual pelvic position, how your hip moves under load, and which structures are overworking and which have shut down. Your protocols are built for your body, not a generic hip stretching routine.
What happens in your first session.
Full assessment, guided protocols, and a take-home practice. 60 minutes.
Assessment
Dr. Garrett assesses how your body moves. Where it's overworking, where it's shut down. He's looking at your whole body, not just the part that hurts.
Guided protocols
Using simple props (yoga blocks, foam rollers, gymnastic rings), Dr. Garrett guides you through protocols adapted to your body in real time. You're not lying on a table. You're moving, finding positions where your body starts to rebalance itself.
What changes
Most clients feel a noticeable shift during the first session. The overworked areas release. The underworked areas start to re-engage. You feel the difference before you leave.
Take-home practice
You leave with a short practice for what was worked on that session. About five minutes. You do it on your living room floor. It maintains the changes and keeps your body moving in the right direction between sessions.
Virtual sessions work well for hip pain. Dr. Garrett assesses your posture and movement patterns via live video and guides you through protocols in real time. Most clients notice reduced tension and improved mobility during their first virtual session.
People who came in with the same thing.
I went from barely walking to six-mile hikes. I didn't think that was possible for me again after my accident.
One visit with Dr. Garrett gave me better results than three months of physical therapy.
Most clients feel a difference in their first session.
Book a session with Dr. Garrett. If you don't experience noticeable relief, we keep working with you until you do, at no additional charge.
Common questions.
If something isn't here, ask on a free discovery call. Dr. Garrett answers everything before you book a paid session.