I have done something to my hip, I think thanks to the abductor/adductor Nautilus machine, followed by a few weeks of lots of fly and breaststroke kicking drills. In any event, since you guys out there in Masters land have been exceedingly helpful about various aches and pains in the past, I am wondering if any other swimmers have experienced this, and if so, what is the best way to hasten its retreat.
I tried doing some swimming with a pull buoy this afternoon, but the slight effort required to keep the float between my legs seemed to hurt the hip. I'm wondering if this is one of those strain injuries that will get better regardless of whether you rest it or not. I've been taking ibuprofen and icing the area, both of which help a little. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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I think Anna is correct that she said nothing negative about chiropractors in her first post. Her second post, however, is a significant criticism of the profession, at least in her geographic area.
Unfortunately, there are many professions and 'sciences' that have existed for hundreds, or thousands, of years, and still are not effective in what they claim to do. While some of you may disagree, I put in this category astrology (of all traditions), acupuncture, and homeopathy, among others. And dousing, and . . .
Chiropracty has at least plausibility going for it. It will have to submit *all* of its practices to scientific study, much as western medicine is (trying) to do before I become a complete believer, however.
My own limited experience with *both* chiropracters and orthopedic surgeons has been poor. I went to both trying to solve a sore lower back, and both took extensive xrays and identified a front-to-back misalignment in the lumbar vertebrae. One (the best surgeon in a large midwest teaching hospital) said it was congenital and may or may not be the cause of the bad back, but weakly recommended significant and debilitating surgery. Thank god I did not follow that advice. The other said the misalignment was definitely the cause of the problem, and proceded to make me so sore that I had another spasm the next day and was in bed (painfully) for several days afterword.
Neither did the obvious and responsible thing and take a personal history, with the intent to identify behaviors that could have been aggravating my back. It was only six years later, while wondering why I had not had a sore back in all that time, that I realized what the problem had been.
I'm sure there are both chiropractors and orthopedic surgeons that could have and can have identified the cause and suggested a simple solution, but the title to this post is the lesson for everyone to pay attention to.
I think Anna is correct that she said nothing negative about chiropractors in her first post. Her second post, however, is a significant criticism of the profession, at least in her geographic area.
Unfortunately, there are many professions and 'sciences' that have existed for hundreds, or thousands, of years, and still are not effective in what they claim to do. While some of you may disagree, I put in this category astrology (of all traditions), acupuncture, and homeopathy, among others. And dousing, and . . .
Chiropracty has at least plausibility going for it. It will have to submit *all* of its practices to scientific study, much as western medicine is (trying) to do before I become a complete believer, however.
My own limited experience with *both* chiropracters and orthopedic surgeons has been poor. I went to both trying to solve a sore lower back, and both took extensive xrays and identified a front-to-back misalignment in the lumbar vertebrae. One (the best surgeon in a large midwest teaching hospital) said it was congenital and may or may not be the cause of the bad back, but weakly recommended significant and debilitating surgery. Thank god I did not follow that advice. The other said the misalignment was definitely the cause of the problem, and proceded to make me so sore that I had another spasm the next day and was in bed (painfully) for several days afterword.
Neither did the obvious and responsible thing and take a personal history, with the intent to identify behaviors that could have been aggravating my back. It was only six years later, while wondering why I had not had a sore back in all that time, that I realized what the problem had been.
I'm sure there are both chiropractors and orthopedic surgeons that could have and can have identified the cause and suggested a simple solution, but the title to this post is the lesson for everyone to pay attention to.
