Earlier today I returned from three days of reporting a story in Las Vegas, and I couldn’t be happier to be home. Interestingly, the effects of my life as a stay-at-home dad followed me to Sin City in ways I never dreamed.

To make a long story short, my assignment was about spa treatments for men. Two of the four treatments I experienced during my visit were massages. And while both masseuses stretched and contorted my body into positions it doesn’t usually go, the women noted that I had developed a condition known as “Mother’s Hip.”

The condition apparently makes one side of the hip joint tighter than the other. As the masseuses explained, it results when a parent predominantly carries a toddler on one side.

Judging from the colloquial name of the condition, it’s most common in women.

Of course my poor body is proof that Mother’s Hip can happen to dads, too; it’s clear the condition does not discriminate.

I had mixed feelings upon receiving this news. On one hand, I admit it—I was a bit embarrassed that I, a dude, would develop a condition most commonly associated with motherhood and being a mom. On the other hand, I felt an odd sense of pride, as if my achy and out-of-whack hip was some sort of badge of honor.

The bottom line: The masseuses were able to tweak my hip and get it back to normalcy. Now that I’m home and back into the regular routine, how long it will stay there is anyone’s guess.