Post 28: Hip Subluxation in CP: A Fascia-Based Story from TheraParent
“They Said Her Hip Is 30% Out”—What Happened Inside TheraParent When Surgery Was Mentioned
We were halfway through our TheraParent call when a mom unmuted. Her voice was calm, but you could hear the weight in her words.
“The orthopedic team said my daughter’s hip is 30% subluxated. They think we should consider surgery. I just… I don’t want to make the wrong decision.”
The room went quiet—not out of awkwardness, but out of shared understanding. Every parent there had felt that same fear at some point. The moment when a doctor says “hip displacement,” or “surgery,” or “we need to act now,” and suddenly you’re carrying a decision you never wanted to face.
This mom wasn’t just asking about a hip. She was asking:
Can I trust another way? Am I missing something important?
I told her something I’ve shared with many families, but it never stops feeling radical—because it’s not how most of us were taught to think:
“What if the hip isn’t out because it’s the problem... but because it’s responding to a larger system that’s not holding her well?”
In WeFlow Fascia Therapy, we zoom out. We look at the whole body—not just the joint, not just the muscle. And what we often see is that the hip, the legs, the posture… they’re all telling a story about what’s happening in the core.
When the fascia—the body’s internal web of support—isn’t holding enough tone or organization, the hips begin to shift. The legs get tight. The body starts bracing. Not because it's broken, but because it's doing its best to stabilize without a strong center.
And that’s the shift.
That’s the paradigm change we offer in TheraParent.
I reminded the group of something we covered in a recent blog post: that tight legs, bent knees, or twisted feet in children with cerebral palsy often reflect an unstable or collapsed core—not a problem in the leg itself.
This is exactly what we unpacked in Post 16: Tight Legs in Cerebral Palsy. When the fascia in the torso isn’t organized, the legs can’t separate well. The hips compensate. The joints take on forces they weren’t built to manage. And what we see as “hip subluxation” might just be the visible part of a deeper instability.
That mom took a deep breath. I could feel the shift in her body through the screen.
She asked, “So… it’s not that we ignore the hip, but that we give the body more support—so it can start to reorganize?”
Yes. Exactly that.
The next day, she sent a message:
“We wrapped her core before bed. It felt so simple. But this morning, she looked more settled. Her legs weren’t pulling in as much.”
This isn’t magic. It’s fascia. It’s biotensegrity. It’s seeing the body as a network—not a series of isolated parts.
And it’s parenting from a place of understanding, not just urgency.
If you’ve been told your child’s hip is out of place—or that surgery is the only way forward—I want you to know: there’s more to the story. And you have every right to ask deeper questions, to support the body in ways that go beyond what you see on an X-ray.
Your hands are enough to start. Your child is wise. And fascia remembers how to reorganize—gently, from the inside out.
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