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Hi everyone,
I’m a lurker and this is my first post. I was hoping some of you could give some insight/advice on some pain I’m experiencing. Here goes:
1. I started noticing pain in my left glute/hamstring last night.
2. I was doing single leg deadlifts.
3. The pain is in the area where my glute and hamstring meet.
4. The pain feels sharp.
5. I only feel it when I do certain things like going up stairs, getting up from a chair/squatting to sit down on a chair (especially if I put weight on my left leg), doing lunges (right knee down). There is no pain when I go down the stairs or do lunges with my left knee down.
6. Putting weight on my left leg while working the glute/hamstring seems to make the pain worse.
7. I don’t feel pain when I don’t put weight on my left leg. When I am sitting down, I feel a numbing sensation in the same area.
8. The pain doesn’t radiate to any other part of my body.
9. I haven’t been to the gym since last night, but I would imagine that this pain would prevent me from doing various exercises as effectively as if the pain was not there.
10. I would just like the pain to go away so that I can continue on with my training.
11. I’ve never injured this part of my body before.
12. It hasn’t gotten any worse since last night, but I’m not quite sure it’s getting better either.
What do you think is the problem and how can I fix it? Also, what do you think caused it? My body was already warm last night and I was approaching the end of the workout when this happened.
Your help/advice is much appreciated!
Erika
Erika,
Sounds like you strained the hamstring at its proximal attachment. Lay off any lower body exercise for now and use ice, 10 minutes on, 20 minutes off, 2-3 times.
In 2 or 3 days you can start with gentle stretching: single knee to chest, supine one-leg hamstring stretch, etc. as well as some foam rolling.
As to why it happened? Who knows ... I'd have to have been there to see it. I'd guess form or too much overload.
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Sorry Erika, hope you don't mind if I 'hijacked' this thread a bit, but I have been suffering a similar problem, and I'd like some opinion on it as well.
1. started noticing an intermittent sharp pain between my left glute and hamstring a couple of days ago
2. It happened the day after my second lower body training session of the week (Thursday). I had some DOMS (especially around the glutes) from my first session on Monday, but it has subsided mostly on Thursday. There was no pain/discomfort during the session itself
3. The pain is in the area where my glute and hamstring meet.
4. it's a sharp pain, and different from the cramp of DOMS (which I have on my right glute)
5. I only feel it intermittently. It usually occurs when I try to straighten from a good morning, but only on the first few reps.
6. I can reproduce some of the pain when I try to do a supine bridge and focus on squeezing my glutes
7. I don't feel pain most of the day, nor do I have any numbness
8. No radiation
9. Strangely enough it doesn't seem to have interfered with my dynamic mobility warmup today (total body)
10. I'm hoping that this will just go away and I can safely do squats without this nagging at the back of my mind
11. I have on occasion feel a slight pull in this area over the last 2-3 weeks. It's never interfered with training, and hardly reproducible
12. It's not changed any, although the DOMS is better
I have had this on and off for a couple years. As part of my warmup I do SMFR on that area with a lacrosse ball. Then I do a modified piriformis stretch which seems to hit it at the right angle. Sometimes stretching even after the lacrosse ball it gets tight again. So I will either work the area again with the ball, or perform some 3-d stretching to my hamstings. Each time I stretch it even within the workout using different stretches I may use the ball. Also at times it seems to respond to some active isolated stretching with a stretch rope.
Interestingly enough, the first time I felt this was playing softball 2 years ago over in the UK, a couple days after all that time on a plane. I felt it then that same game I suffered a Grade II hamstring tear.
No worries, Jijin! I hope your hamstring/glute area is feeling better.
For me, the pain seems to have disappeared after resting a few days. So thanks for your help, Julie!
Jin, I was going to suggest exactly what jsm27 did ... lacrosse ball "foam rolling" the the glutes and proximal hamstrings. Lots of it ... daily. Also be sure to be doing lots of static stretching to the area: hamstrings, glutes, etc. after you lift and maybe at night in front of the TV.
Keep me posted.
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I've gone ahead and done that over the weekend. MAN can I tell you how good it feels. Felt so good I went back to squatting on Monday with no pain after! I did still get some occasional tightness there during the ascent of the squat. It feels good today, though.
I could see glute pain being related to shin splints, if it was the result of a good ass kicking.
Ah, funny, but doesn't poor glute medius function lead to a rotated femur and then shin splints? Not exactly an ass kicking, but an ass that can't kick.
Pain in Glute/Hamstring Area
I hope your hamstring/glute area is feeling better.
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