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Weird hip strain: hurts when I get out of saddle...ideas?
I've strained my left hip tendon. Or some part of it. I don't really
know how it happened, but here's my report. If anyone has any ideas, they're appreciated! I'll go to my doc shortly, if it doesn't improve, but I find that 'insiders' sometimes have helpful info. The problem is that my left hip joint is really sore. At the "back" of it. The clearest way the injury appears is when I ride my bike. When I ride in the saddle I feel fine. If I get out of the saddle it hurts like crazy and I basically have to sit right back down. Here's the background. I'm 43, 175 lbs, slight gut, decades of race background, but now a desk jockey. This spring without much training I went and did 3 really hard all-day mountain rides in NoCal. Lots of hard out of the saddle riding. I was fit from XC skiing/racing but only had a couple hundred miles in the bike-legs. Had a great time. I've also acquired 4 new (old) road bikes to ride and test to see which gets to be my next "keeper" bike. I was having a great time swapping between them this spring. I noticed my hip getting a tiny bit sore about then. I was also doing tons of very hard yardwork and putting in long hours at the computer desk. My hamstrings got very sore and stiff a couple times and I did hard stretching to relieve them. What's more I was doing once-a-week over-the-top hard-rides of about 2 hours with the racer wannabes. I'd ride casually for errands once or twice a week then do this superhard ride. It was definitely a strain and made me wonder. I also tend to jump out of the deskchair or car-seat the same way every time. I've been fooling with saddle height, but ride smoothly and the bikes have all felt fine, basically (a couple hard rides on lowish saddles but no hip rocking from too high). On one ride it finally was outright hurting when I got out of the saddle and I've layed off the riding since then. It's been about 3 weeks now. I figure I just strained it and that it will clear up if I stop riding or stressing it until it's better. I'm wondering if maybe I can ride as long as I don't get out of the saddle---and maybe stick to the same bike. (I remember when I got my only knee injury. I went to docs and tried several fixes but it turned out to be coming from the desk/car! When I changed how I got out of my chairs the injury cleared immediately. Ha.) I've been off the bike taking Ibuprofen/Alieve for 2 weeks now. No real improvement. On meds it's tolerable, but noticeable. Very sore if I skip the meds. Oh well, if anyone has any ideas, thanks! --JP |
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Weird hip strain: hurts when I get out of saddle...ideas?
Sorry about not being clear on where the injury is. It's right in the
back part of the pelvic ball joint in the hip. It's not the hams. It might be right where the glutes and hams attach to the ball-socket, though. I might've been hard on the hams when stretching. I did them steady and slow but kept quite a bit of pressure on, relaxing the whole time. It didn't seem like it was further hurting them at the time. At this point it seems like a joint-located tendon injury. So stretching now doesn't seem right. But I don't really know what it is. The main weird thing to me is that it's fine when riding in saddle, but I'm at about 10% strength (with pain) when I stand to get out of the saddle. I was just curious if some other riders might've had this exact same thing (generally) and found a particular treatment effective. Thanks again! --JP |
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Weird hip strain: hurts when I get out of saddle...ideas?
I'll have it checked out.
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