The Injuries Thread - Page 47

1. Google a pic and mark where it hurts.


Blue circled area felt very tight after doing squats, and occasionally has dull pain throughout the day. Gold circled areas only hurt when doing weighted squats or certain stretches

2. What exercises hurt?
Doing any kind of weighted squats. Bodyweight and squats with the bar or very low weight don't aggravate it, but once I get up to about 40-50kg it starts giving me pain in the gold marked area.

Also, if I lay on my back and bring my knee to my chest it gives me some discomfort. Probably the worst pain is if I try to do a lying leg cross body stretch (not sure the proper name)

3. What type of pain is it? Burning? Ache? Tingling? Sharp?
Blue area is occasional dull aching pain. Gold area is more sharp pain/ extreme tightness.

4. What would you rate the pain at on a 0/10 scale? 0 being no pain, 10 being go to the emergency room.
When not doing exercises, usually a 0 or 1. When doing squats around a 4. When doing the previously mentioned stretches, around a 5.

5. Acute or chronic (chronic more than ~6-8 weeks)? What date was onset? How has the pain improved since the initial injury?

I guess still acute (been about a month). My mobility has improved some, but the pain hasn't improved much since then.

6. Have you been training through pain? If so, how long?

I stopped doing heavy squats after I started feeling this pain. I've still been doing some light jogging, lunges, deadlifts and leg press. None of these caused pain during the exercise, but often the problem areas (and my hips in general) feel achy or sore the few days following a workout.

7. How deep is the pain? Is it more superficial tissues? Or does it seem to be more inside or around the joint? Describe it.

Difficult to say.. it seems to be around the joints rather than in them. But it does feel somewhat deep in that it doesn't feel like its directly under the skin's surface.

8. What have you been doing for recovery purposes?

The week after it started bothering me I applied RICE techniques

I've been doing lots of samson stretches, couch stretches, butterflies, and just all around body stretching. None of these stretches hurt, but I do feel some tightness in the area. Also, for the past few days been trying massaging the area with a tennis ball to loosen it up.

9. What seems to help? What seems to make it worse? Is it constant? Does it increase/decrease with certain activities?

I'm not sure if anything is helping yet, other than when iced the pain seems to subside. Pain sometimes increases a few hours or the next day after exercising/doing hiking etc.

10. Check the tissue quality of the surrounding muscles. Which ones are tight? Which ones are tender? Is there any swelling?

I think my hip muscles aren't that flexible in general, but nothing seems out of the ordinary with the surrounding muscles/tissue. No swelling or bruising.

11. How does it feel after exercise (if any)? How does it feel at the beginning of the day? How about the end of the day?

Already talked about after exercise, and no significant differences throughout the day

12. Any previous injury history?

A few (3ish) years ago I had some knee joint instability on my left side which was due to weakness in the muscles that support the joint. This hasn't been an issue for a while since I started working out and strengthening my leg muscles.

13. How's your posture?

Good, thanks for asking

14. What is your current workout routine for that bodypart? Do you play any sports?

Before injuring it, I was doing starting strength, so I was doing squats and deadlifts exclusively for legs

15. Any other information I should be aware of or that comes to mind that may help?

Not that I can think of, other than I'm currently studying abroad so I won't really have access to a good physical therapist or anything like that for about 2 months.