Okay Bill, I need help. I have a couple of injuries that are plaguing me right now, and I really need help AGGRESSIVELY addressing them. I have an agenda here... I am going rock climbing in a month and a half in the Sierras, and I really need to be back in condition for it. Here are the things that are hurting.
I have some serious neck problems. According to the physical therapist (also a manual therapist), I have several hypermobile vertebrae, and have aggravated my radial nerve, causing all sorts of problems in my right arm that previosly I had thought were all seperate isolated problems, but are apparently call connected to my neck problems. I supposedly have horrible posture (I don't disagree), and I need to strengthen my rhomboids to pull my shoulders back a little, and concentrate on keeping my ears above my shoulders. My pain is related to a "guarding" pattern that I have been doing for probably years.
The other injury is in my left hip. The only time it really seems to bother me is in my more ballistic moves, particularly complexes that require descending quickly to the basement, and coming back up quickly. Sometimes it bothers me just being in a deep squat, but lately it seems a little better. I just see no improvement in my power moves. For example, I cannot snatch at ALL right now. The stomp absolutely KILLS my hip. I have had SI joint problems in the past, but this feels different, more in the ball and socket joint. Pops on me every now and then too (not with trying to do it either).
My hips may be a bit tight, being that I mountain bike, run, do LOTS of stairs, and lift weights. I don't know if this is a flexibility or a stability issue. I would get that it is NOT a stability issue given my past few years working my stability. If it is, then perhaps it is related to actually overtraining the stabilizers. (???)
What do you think?
