2 weeks ago mid kettlbell workout my back started to hurt. Just on swing types of movements, not on presses, but on cleans and swings. And by hurt I mean: i couldn't breathe kind of pain. The kind of pain where you go to work after your morning workout. Look at the calendar, clear you calendar and head to the doctor's office begging for muscle relaxants.
I think managed to squeeze myself into get a massage as I was in so much pain I wouldn't have been able to work anyway and hoped for the best. I hurt. She inflicted a lot of pain and I continued to hurt. But the biggest thing was that twisting motion from side to side was where I was having issue and it was just my right side, right where my lat ends and it seemed to be my anterior seratus wrecking havoc.
A week went by, I had to travel for work...so sleeping in hotel beds is not usually good on the back to start off with but now it was extra special. But I survived and finally this week got in to see my sports acupuncturist who discovered my right lat was still pretty pissed off and then started poking around...on my stomach.
And then she found the root cause: my transverse oblique(abdominus) was PISSED. A lot of not fun followed by a massage the next day with more non-fun has actually made me almost 100% functional. To the point that my body doesn't even feel like I endured the crazy pain. It's just not there anymore. Amazing what releasing a muscle can do.
Root cause: my right hip has a slight more anterior tilt than my left. This causes issues running (functional leg length issues), and so I have a 'plan' of what i need to do to help level the stupid hips out.
Stupid hip...you always give me some form of chaos in my life.
2 comments:
That sounds crazy but I'm so glad they were able to find the root cause and release the pain! Traveling for work when in pain is the total pits.
Eh. At least you fond the problem.
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