Hip Pain

Bugnug

I have recently joined a running club. I have always been active played lots of sports and for the last year I have been doing plenty of running. I joined the club to take it up a notch but I have been getting fairly bad pain in my left hip. I have never had any injury in the area so I am wondering what is going on?

Thanks,

RayCun

It's against the rules to offer medical advice on here. Sounds like you need to visit a physio.

Bugnug

RayCun wrote: »

It's against the rules to offer medical advice on here. Sounds like you need to visit a physio.

Im not looking for medical advice. I'm asking other people if they have suffered something similar.

If you are not supposed to give medical advice why are you reccommending I go and see a physio???:rolleyes:

iceage

Hi Bugnug I am dealing with something very similar. Sharp "catching" to the side and front of my left hip normally strikes out of nowhere and for no apparent reason...very sore sometimes. Easier running up inclines rather than down when I have to be careful of it. Funnily if I slow my running pace right down it seems to eleviate it and some times it almost dissapears? Weird one for sure. I'm in my 40's, over my supposed BMI :rolleyes: and have only returned to running in the last couple of years.

Bugnug

Fair play to you for getting back to the running. I am the same with the hip pain, it only happens when I am doing 800's, 300's and any interval or speed training. Running long distances is not so bad. My mate who does tri athlon has the same thing. We are both right sided and I am wondering if that has something to do with it?

TheTherapist

It depends on where abouts the pain in the hip is. Front, side or at the back.
If it only happends during interval training it means that its only affected when your body is being pushed. So it doesnt sound too bad. Although it would be better if it wasnt there.
If you tell me where the pain is exactly then i can give you more advice

Regards.

Bugnug

TheTherapist wrote: »

It depends on where abouts the pain in the hip is. Front, side or at the back.
If it only happends during interval training it means that its only affected when your body is being pushed. So it doesnt sound too bad. Although it would be better if it wasnt there.
If you tell me where the pain is exactly then i can give you more advice

Regards.

It is more to the front. It is close to the hip joint.

Tks.

TheTherapist

It sounds like your hip flexor. Hard to tell without assessing it.
What i would say to do is heat it before training and ice it afterwards. The heat will warm the area up for you and after training there will be inflammation there. So you need to ice it to bring it down. Best way to ice is an ice cup. This is using a foam cup or yoghurt pot. Fill with water. Freeze. Peal away edges and massage the area with the ice.
I would go see a therapist to get it loosened out. I would say to continue running if its not sore when your just doing miles. ( i dont think runners stop running even if they are told to anyway)

dna_leri

TheTherapist wrote: »

It sounds like your hip flexor. Hard to tell without assessing it.
What i would say to do is heat it before training and ice it afterwards. The heat will warm the area up for you and after training there will be inflammation there. So you need to ice it to bring it down. Best way to ice is an ice cup. This is using a foam cup or yoghurt pot. Fill with water. Freeze. Peal away edges and massage the area with the ice.
I would go see a therapist to get it loosened out. I would say to continue running if its not sore when your just doing miles. ( i dont think runners stop running even if they are told to anyway)

Sounds like dodgy advice to me, but then again I am not a qualified physiotherapist or pretending to be one. No physio has ever advised me to heat up the injured area before training. Also I thought Ice should not be applied directly to skin and you need to limit the time to 20mins.

Go see a qualified sports physiotherapist.

trentv

I suffered hip pain for about a year of running and never really did anything about it, it came up during a run and lasted for the rest of the day after a run but was gone mostly by the next morning.

So a year later I then decided to try a different pair of runners and KABLAMO the pain was gone, I found it quite amazing.

Thats my tuppence.

TheTherapist

dna_leri wrote: »

Sounds like dodgy advice to me, but then again I am not a qualified physiotherapist or pretending to be one. No physio has ever advised me to heat up the injured area before training. Also I thought Ice should not be applied directly to skin and you need to limit the time to 20mins.

Go see a qualified sports physiotherapist.

Im not sure who you went to but a qualified therapist of any sort would know that putting heat on an area is good. The process increases the flow of oxygen and nutrients to the muscles, by dilating the blood vessels, helping to heal the damaged tissue. Obviously if the injury has occurred in the last day or 2 then dont heat it.
And the reason i said massage the area with ice is that you are not leaving a block of ice on the area. Its kept moving so the skin wont damage from ice burns.
Im not going to give someone ill advice.

Rineanna

Right this has strayed to medical advice even if the OP hadn't meant it to.

You need to see a physio to ensure you get an expert's advice.

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