treyedr wrote:
xsive wrote:
I've been fighting an injury for about 2.5 yrs. It's waxed and waned. One day I think that I'm cured and then it creeps back.
Recently, I had two cortisone injections and I took time off, and slowly built my mileage (mostly running miles). I have been feeling 94% well.
I bumped into a chiropractor that I had seen a while back and as I was telling him about the injections and before I could tell him how much better that I've gotten over the last 4 months he tells me, "lie down."
So I think that he's going to compare my leg lengths and then he gives my right leg a big YANK. Then proceeds to YANK the left foot too.
It's the same technique that all of the PTs and all of the Chiros that I've seen use, and after I get up, my tweaked left latissimus muscle no longer is tweaked, and I think - that I'm that much closer to being 100% healthy.
I don't really care about the tweaked lat because it just is a nuisance and it does not affect my performance and only slightly limits my trunk rotation (which I think is not really necessary in triathlon).
Unfortunately, about 2 hrs later, my lower back (right SI area) is hurting and I am having electrical/nerve pain in my right leg. I slept about 1.5 hrs last night because of the pain and the irritable feeling in my gut, and also the irritation that I was feeling in my arms and hands- accompanied by oscillating hot flashes and coldness all over my body (I was hoping that I was getting sick and NOT re-injured).
Today was better and I did a 2.0 mile run (easy), but my lower back is still tight and my right hamstring is also better, but still buzzing with electrical energy.
For the PTs, Orthos, and Chiros, it seems like the unilateral foot/leg YANK would be contraindicated, but because all of the PTs, Orthos, and Chiros were doing the YANK maneuver at some point in my treatment, then it probably is not going to cause long-term injury, but what do you think?? Am I re-injured, or is this just a minor setback?
I always noted that the YANK hurt for a day or two when I was actively receiving manual treatments, but why does it do that and don't you agree that I should insist that no practitioner ever do that again?
If I chill out and give it a few days will the nerve irritation calm down? Or do I need to see a lawyer or a surgeon?
We need more information to help you.
How old are you?
How did you get this injury?
If this injury is training related, have you had your swim, bike, and run form assessed? What other training are you doing?
Specifically, what symptoms were you having at the onset of the injury? How have these symptoms progressed?
What makes the symptoms worse? better?
As far as advice goes, I'll repeat what everyone else here has said.....STOP GOING TO A CHIRO!!!! I have had patients tell me a chiro has claimed to be able to cure viral conjunctivitis through spinal manipulation. Whisky Tango Foxtrot.
I'm 40 yr old.
5'9''
154 lbs.
Injury etiology: unknown, but probably a combination of bad PT and chiro instruction on advanced stretching- to the point that I (and I'm at fault for not pumping te break) probably tore something. I included the bit about bad advice because I have never stretched and never needed to do so, but I accept responsibility for the mistake, because my stretching seems to have turned a minor injury in A major injury.
Swim bike run form: unremarkable
Nature of injury: aggravated by prolonged sitting, stretching, yanking, and hill running-also bike riding.
MRI suggests minor proximal hamstring tear because a bone spur was noted.
Rest doesn't really help because of inability to sit. Probably because of a co-existing ischial bursitis.
When the pain is worst it is a nerve pain from my right SI continuous to the lateral portion of the middle of my right calf.
When the pain is minor but unremitting, then it's a deep ache in my right lower butt cheek extending into the top of my right hamstring.
Sometimes if I bend at the waist then another pain appears that fees like it is a over-taut stretch of my lateral right hamstring. Almost like it's IT related or piriformis.