Chronic hip pain climbing specific
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For about four months now I've been experiencing hip pain in the inner top portion of my right leg/ groin. The pain is experienced when sitting and crossing my right leg over my left and climbing, or moving my body in funny ways to see what hurts, ie, climbing. For the most part trad movement is fine but powerful high right steps where the inner thigh is engaged sends a sharp pain threw, causing everything from the innner thigh tothe hip flexor to tighten up. I have continued to climb through all of this and finally resolved two weeks ago to take a break and do pt. the physio thinks it may be hip labral tear but many of the symptoms associated with this don't seem to be present. I've already ruled out adductor strain and due to the fact that this has been four months I'm truly worried that this might be needing surgery. Any knowledge or insight would be hugely appreciated!!! I just wanna climb!! |
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With the groin pain and hip flexor "locking" I would have guessed labral tear also. They don't always present in the traditional manner; I had one with no groin pain, just a lot of hip flexor issues. Arthritis can also cause groin pain, but it's not usually described as sharp. Have you had an MRI? |
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this may not apply at all but I had severe hip pain for about five months. not all the time, usually sitting or standing too long would start it hurting and a lot of times there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to it. it started out not too bad and continued to get worse until I could no longer run. that's when I went to see a doctor. he diagnosed it as a common running injury which I spent a couple more months trying to rehab. finally my wife(who is a nurse) made me go see a back specialist and after an MRI I found out it was a ruptured disc. the disc was putting pressure on the sciatic nerve and I was feeling all the pain in the hip. I got a steroid shot in the back and most of the pain was gone in a few days. |
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it doesn't sound like the psoas, mine was more of a pain/flex, not any lock ups |
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Arthritis can definitely cause a sharp pain in that region as it advances. I have a hip resurfacing, there was definitive sharp pain in my groin at times. Right side is doing it now as well. |
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Thanks for the replies. So far I've been working with a PT and we've been addressing the obvious imbalances which within a week and a half a taking it easy on climbing and balancing exercises has allowed me for the most part to cross my leg over the other. Today I wen't to the gym and had a very very easy session and nothing got pissed, which is very hopeful. |
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If it is a torn labrum and you're considering surgery, PM me. I can tell you what I had done surgerywise and how the recovery went. I had everything done ~locally (Boulder, Golden, Vail). |
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