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.
I found the note from Tzivia Segal regarding hip injuries. He had e-mailed this directly to me rather than posting it out of fear perhaps someone would misdiagnose their own problem. Anyhow, I asked Tzivia if it would be okay to post this e-mail, which I think is informative and wise. He or she? (I confess I don't know the gender of the name Tzivia!) said that would be fine.
Here goes:
I saw your post on the Masters B-Board ....
Not too long ago I did something to my hip ... not sure the original cause to this day. But as a couple weeks w/ regular ***-stroke and butterly (w/others) progressed it got worse and worse. It seemed as long as the injury was causing my muscles to flinch and grab (that jolting pain) any exercise
worsened the situation. I hope by now you are past that. With the help of my trusty chiropractor, I did have the hip adjusted ONCE (and only once) which stayed. My chiropractor also did alot of deep muscle massage ... we found the abductor to be extremely tender ... probably the original injury ... and
from that some core muscles in my stomach were very, very tight ... probably from compensating. It took about two weeks of essentially no swimming, then a slow build-up, to get back w/
it. Over it all there were the first two weeks of decline, two weeks of very painful grabbing, jolting, misbehaving muscles, two weeks of sore but more like an ache in the muscles during which time I did some very easy swimming ('s to EASY DOES IT!!!!!
Tzivia
I found the note from Tzivia Segal regarding hip injuries. He had e-mailed this directly to me rather than posting it out of fear perhaps someone would misdiagnose their own problem. Anyhow, I asked Tzivia if it would be okay to post this e-mail, which I think is informative and wise. He or she? (I confess I don't know the gender of the name Tzivia!) said that would be fine.
Here goes:
I saw your post on the Masters B-Board ....
Not too long ago I did something to my hip ... not sure the original cause to this day. But as a couple weeks w/ regular ***-stroke and butterly (w/others) progressed it got worse and worse. It seemed as long as the injury was causing my muscles to flinch and grab (that jolting pain) any exercise
worsened the situation. I hope by now you are past that. With the help of my trusty chiropractor, I did have the hip adjusted ONCE (and only once) which stayed. My chiropractor also did alot of deep muscle massage ... we found the abductor to be extremely tender ... probably the original injury ... and
from that some core muscles in my stomach were very, very tight ... probably from compensating. It took about two weeks of essentially no swimming, then a slow build-up, to get back w/
it. Over it all there were the first two weeks of decline, two weeks of very painful grabbing, jolting, misbehaving muscles, two weeks of sore but more like an ache in the muscles during which time I did some very easy swimming ('s to EASY DOES IT!!!!!
Tzivia
