Female rider, moving from road to tri. 5'4" 120lbs. Can't get comfortable - she brought in the saddle she's been 'tolerating' for the past few years, an imitation Brooks B17 saddle that is as flimsy as a wet kleenex. Her complaint is entirely ischial pain - sharp and 'hot', as she described it, so I'm thinking nerve. But it doesn't matter how upright or rotated she is, or how much padding is there. We tried everything from a Cobb Max to a Profile stryke and everything in between. Flat top, curved top, cutout or no cutout. Tilt, no tilt. She says she feels something rubbing across the bone as she pedals? She's wearing tri shorts, no excessive body fat around the thighs.
No other complaints such as IT band or hip or whatever, it's just at those sit bones. She is a nurse and on her feet a lot, I can't imagine there be a bursa there?
She is post-childbirth, 8yrs. (twins!) but was not a rider previously.
We're getting back together later this week, I thought that with so much changing going on it was just too much. I have more saddles to try, but what am I missing?
Anne Barnes
ABBikefit, Ltd
FIST/SICI/FIST DOWN DEEP
X/Y Coordinator
abbikefit@gmail.com
No other complaints such as IT band or hip or whatever, it's just at those sit bones. She is a nurse and on her feet a lot, I can't imagine there be a bursa there?
She is post-childbirth, 8yrs. (twins!) but was not a rider previously.
We're getting back together later this week, I thought that with so much changing going on it was just too much. I have more saddles to try, but what am I missing?
Anne Barnes
ABBikefit, Ltd
FIST/SICI/FIST DOWN DEEP
X/Y Coordinator
abbikefit@gmail.com