Some of you might remember me posting about this a while back (07-08-2007, actually). I got a sharp pain in my hip flexor during squats, specially wide stance squats. I stopped all squatting (It diden't help much just narrowing my stance, It still hurt) and started doing more glute activation work, and stretching the hams.
Here's the post I made back then:
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Originally Posted by karky
The pain began last week
i was doing squats at the time.
Hip flexor, its the inner part, so im guessing the psoas, and its only on the left leg.
Its like a sharp pain, only when squatting (back squats in particular) also when holding the leg up.
Squatting motiones and raising the leg towards my chest.
stretching it helps some, but not much.
pain doesnt radiate.
I can squat through the pain, so theres nothing i cant do, but im guessing it might not be such a good idea to continue squatting with the pain?
havent injured it before, though i do have an anterior pelvic tilt, so i have tight hip flexors.
Its not really getting worse.
Ive tried doing some scorpions for warmup to see if it helped, but i just felt them at the outer part of the hip flexor, not the inner where the pain is.
Any help appritiated
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However, it hasn't gotten much better. And now I'm actually starting to feel it on deadlifts, and cleans (when pulling off the floor). I read that stretching the hip flexors (even though mine are tight) would only irritate it more, so I've been staying away from that. While this was going on I still kept doing deads, GM's etc, and I'm thinking, if overactive hams is something that contributes to this, maybe that wasn't such a good idea?
I really need to get this fixed, I can see my quads are shrinking due to the lack of stimulation
Every symptom I've heard of fits, exept that it's not only wide stance stuff that hurts, close stance stuff hurts too, but not nearly as much though. Is it more to this than just overreaching glutes and overactive hams? (hope I used those terms correct there :P) I read somewhere that one of the hip flexor muscles could be weak too..
Help is much appritiated
