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This hip thing is slow going. It seems to be getting better, but not very fast and I'm really not doing anything other than snowshoeing on it, and most of that is hiking. I'm not so sure it's not a stress fracture. But I haven't really run in 5 weeks and those first couple of weeks I was like a drug addict going through withdrawal. I couldn't eat, sleep and was yelling at people I never yell at.

And if that wasn't enough, Mike Bunker called me tonight and told me he is injured and will not be running this weekend at the USM meet. If you can believe it, the school doctors are saying he's got a Stress fracture in his hip. What are the odds?

And other than getting your legs chopped off, that's about the worst injury you can get. Other than sitting around reading running books you can't do much else. Send him lots of energy, especially if the x-ray comes back positive.

Geez, that's just [i:6bcf0d08e8]awful[/i:6bcf0d08e8] news. I'm hoping very much that you and Mike's doctors are all wrong with the diagnoses.

If not, you can both throw yourselves into healing, attacking it the same way you would any other training.

Mike, let us know -- okay?

By Brian at 25 January, 2005 - 08:17 | login or register to post comments

hips

Well, join the club. I have a soft tissue injury. All the connective tissue to the pubic bone is sore. As you guys probably know all the force of running is absorbed by the hip and pubic bone, which combined they make like a crown or cervics-like structure. Any weekness in those areas will eventually show up in some form of injury. I've had mine since mid-August. My running has definitely been harmed, especially speed (not endurance). I've run two marathons with the injury including MDI and recently Disney.

My training has been more cross training (ellipitical and bike). To run the marathons I've trained by running all my long runs and tried some speed work. My Physical Therapist has suggested wearing compression shorts to stabilize the area (reduces the pain). I even have SI stabilizing shorts and belt. I don't like the belt because it seems to increase the pain. Regular compression shorts help but I role the waste down lower onto the hips, which seems to provide the necessary stability.

For PT I doing the slide board, balance board (one foot with the other out to the side ten times and then both feet crouched down a bit). These exercises are more advanced now that I'm getting a little better (but seem to be relapsing this week with my increase in mileage). I'll post some of my other PT exercises when I get home where I have the list of them.

Good luck!

By steve at 27 January, 2005 - 10:52 | login or register to post comments