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Help! got hip damage..anyone reccommend a good sport-orientated doctor/consultant?

  • 15-10-2012 12:07pm
    #1
    martco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭


    hi,
    normally 1 marthon a year since I turned 30 and just to push myself a bit completed 3 last year...I'm now 43.
    I was hoping I'd get to be one of those guys who runs into his 80's but suspect/worried it's game over! I decided to take a break from it for the winter (possibly stupid move dunno) tried to get going gain in Feb but struggled...noticed my left hip/knee giving out a lot and also a large loss of flexibility in my left hip...to the point where it's hard to tie my laces?! did physio sessions with expert lads @SSC Aviva, marginal improvement but nowt major.....out of fear of a bigger problem I halted the physio eventually went to GP who after a couple of months of fiddling about with Difene etc. referred me on my own insistence to a Rheumatology guy (as a first guess)...he says xrays show severe osteo damage in my left hip and oh well. maybe that I need to consider more gentle activity now like swimming?
    I have the xrays...I appreciate I'm not trained but it doesn't look THAT bad to me. Trouble is maybe as good as the GP and this Arthritis guy are think neither know anything about sport's injury specifically... thinking I need someone who knows running/sport that can interpret the xray and give me the best way forward. or tell me that yes indeed it is game over.
    I guess I'm just having trouble accepting that I was running Dublin '11 without a bother and just 4 months of going sedentary for a bit later my hip has gone down the tubes?! but now here I am nearly a year without running and it is affecting me badly..I miss it a lot and really want to solve this.
    Can anyone please help?

    thanks!


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  • #2
    kennyb3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,724 ✭✭✭kennyb3


    Go see a consultant at the SSC. You'll prob need an MRI too, as xrays arent really the gold standard.

    I'd ring here and ask to see Enna Falvey.


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