John’s a 35-year-old electrician. He’d been suffering with hip pain around the side of his buttock. It was an ache which was worse with exercise and could refer an ache into his leg. John played a lot of football and he thought he’d pulled something in a game. John had been here before for a shoulder injury which had settled with massage.

John came back to see the same sports massage therapist about his hip pain. The sports massage therapist identified tightness in the muscles surrounding the hip. They explained to John that a combination of massage, stretches and home exercises would he.