pain in the hip/butt/hamstring/quad/back...

i've dealt with the same pains for the past three years. once you have been running "out of alignment" it can be a struggle to get your body to straigten out. i've dealt with chiropracters and physical therapists and trainers and orthopedists who told me nothing was wrong with me despite the fact that i was in tremendous pain. things to do... take time off of running. i've tried to run through all of this and take time off and then run too soon and then take more time off and run too soon and i've dug a serious hole. take time off. get deep tissue massages frequently. swim. do all the funky exercises the physical therapists give you to strengthen your core muscles so you can keep your self in line. always ask questions at the doctor, do you have a leg length descrepancy, is it functional or actual? would orthotics help, wear the right shoes. don't keep thinking it will go away! it doesn't. find a good chiropracter who actually manipulates your spine and adjusts your hips (and keep going back until they stay that way) and doesn't just crack your neck and slap you on the back. if you keep trying to run while you are "out" you will face more trouble later, stress fractures and plantar fascitis, problems with the other hip and IT band - - i'm there believe me. work this thing out slowly, obviously its totally frustrating but better to take the time now and knock it out completely than deal with it for years. it will go away just strenghtening and time to heal. much luck.

had the same thing over a year ago, found that sitting for long periods of time killed it, pain was generated in the back and spread. deep massage of the lower back helped curb it, but until that point the hamstrings were so weak i couldnt run 5:30 pace.

maybe sciatica or a problem with your SI joint

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It takes more than one adjustment to re-align this problem. I've had this off and on. Sometimes I have to get adjusted 3 times a week, then do tons of exercises to hold the alignment. It seems to keep me running.

I have the exact same problem, except on the left side. It only really bothers me during hard workouts and long tempo runs. Sometimes it feels like it is the IT band that hurts, other times like the hip flexor. Also, sitting in a car for a long period of time gets very painful in my upper hamstring. I saw a sports medicine PT and he thought I had a leg strength imbalance and prescribed exercises to correct the imbalance. So far it is only marginally better. I also have a touch of achilles tendonitis on the right side and I was wondering if it could be related. Maybe the achilles problem is causing me to change my stride in such a way as to bother the opposite hip. Was wondering if maybe you had an achilles problem on the opposite side from your hip? Stretching the hip flexors makes sense but I've been doing that faithfully and it hasn't cured me either. I wanted to bump this up to see if anyone else had any other ideas.

Have you had an MRI or bone scan on the area to check for a stress fracture.

water rat-

i don't have any problems with my achilles on my right side. i haven't really had any pain below the knee. i think i have the same problem you are talking about though. it seems that the muscles on my right side are more developed than the ones on the left, especially around the hip/butt area.

i just got a new pair of orthodics yesterday. who knows, maybe i'll be fine after a couple weeks of wearing the new orthodics.

i haven't gotten an MRI. you really think if it was a stress fracture it would cause all of these areas to hurt?

help wrote:

i haven't gotten an MRI. you really think if it was a stress fracture it would cause all of these areas to hurt?

Last winter I had what I thought was a strained piriformis...physio diagnoised it as that, doc did as well, plus my own experiences told me that was what it was too. Started having pain in the lower back, hip, IT band.

We kept rehabbing it for 6 weeks, where things would loosen up and as soon as I tried running again I was having the same excrutiating pain. Tried 3 coritsone shots in the piriformis and still no improvement.

Had an MRI and Bone scan and both showed stress fracture or the sacrum. Took another 6 weeks off and I was fine.

thanks.

i'll give these orthodics a couple weeks and if i still feel the same i'll look into getting an mri or a bonescan. which is better to confirm a stress fracture?

help wrote:

thanks.

i'll give these orthodics a couple weeks and if i still feel the same i'll look into getting an mri or a bonescan. which is better to confirm a stress fracture?

I'm not sure which is better...I had both done and both came back with the same result, so with that in mind I would go with whichever is less expensive.