Sartorius pain after groin strain?

same issue here. had to take time off from an adductor strain. still feel occasional sartorious issue. Not quite pain, but its making me paranoid. what's the correct treatment? I try to heat before, ice after, and foam roll IT band. Anything else I can do?

that's weird that we have the same issue. i always ice and have been using a foam roller that i bought a few days ago. it's not every day, but it's often enough that it's an issue. i'm on my school's track team, and i can't race with this.

I knew someone with similar symptoms and after 2yrs it was determined that he had a sports hernia

satt- this might be the third time I have responded to your post, so I apologize if you have tried this already -

try loosening up your piriformis. I have the same symptoms as you, and I can treat it successfully with a baseball.

Sit on a baseball on the floor on the soft parts of your rear end. Roll it around - find a pose that gets the ball into the fleshy parts.

Then go belly down and massage the hurting parts of your hip with the baseball.

do that before you run and after, and if you hve been sitting for a while.

We may have different injuries, but everythign you say sounds just like me, and this treatment is like magic.

i've tried it with a tennis ball before, but it never seems to make it feel better. i'm afraid that if i massage the painful parts then it'll make it worse.

a tennis ball doesn't work for me either - too soft. Baseballs or lacrosse balls are best.

just got a baseball from my shed and tried it out. i definitely could feel some stuff breaking up. let's see how it feels tomorrow--i'll get back to you!

Been there.

1. Roll tennis ball under piriformis. Foam roll IT band and hip. Self-massage trigger points.

2. Make sure you are in alignment. Roll around on and near SI joint until you are (or go to a chiro to have it done).

3. Strengthen glutes/hip with daily leg lifts.

4. Stretch sartorius throughout day. Try to get stretch on psoas.

5. Get a competent chiro to ART you.

6. No speedwork or hills. Reduce mileage.

Mine was so intractable that an MD concluded that I had a sports hernia. But a sports surgeon who does pro sports-hernia surgery ruled it out. He told me to shut it down completely for 6 weeks.

Wow, the baseball worked! My leg felt way better today! Thank you!

you made my day, satt - keep it up 2 or 3 times a day.

This is why I hang out on lrc.

Maybe you can help me.

I'm 41... been dealing with a problematic groin for a couple of months... maybe longer.

Pain started out on my right side near pubic bone. It now seems to have gone bi-lateral.

I was diagnosed with Adductor Tendonitis by a sports physio. I think he's right, but I think there's more to the story.

I can elicit pain on both sides of my pubic bone laying supine and squeezing a soccer ball between my feet. Doing situps with knees bent make manifest lower ab tightness. This eventually subsides after 5-6 reps. When I run it feels like I have a tug-of-war happening on my pubic bone.

The cobra stretch also manifests lower ab tightness at the pubic bone and when I foam roll this area it hurts too.

I can also elicit pain when doing a standing stretch where I place my hands on my head and rock back and place one foot forward. That effort reveals a lot of tightness especially with my right foot.

I took 2 weeks off shortly after getting the diagnosis and have significantly reducing mileage. I think I'm worse and time off seemed to do no good but make it tighter.

I've been doing a lot of sitting lately as my job requires me to be at a computer. I wonder if this isn't helping.

Also, I'm able to do the elliptical machine with no problems. I can also use the hip machine to adduct, abduct and leg lifts, etc with no pain.

I've been getting A.R.T done and it seems to be helping. Doc was able to ART my left Obturator Externus and that hurt like crazy. I did feel better. My left side didn't hurt as bad.

Feel like I'm in a downward spiral. Any thoughts from my fellow sufferers?

anecdotally, I've seen a lot of groin pain like your associated with the hip flexors. Try using a foam roller on your hip flexors regularly and see if that helps.

All those muscles in the upper leg are connected and related - if one system isn't working, it will affect the others.

Thank you. I'll add that to my battle plan.

Just today I've added monster walks with a Theraband. I'm wondering if my adductor/groin muscles are compensating for weakness in my glutes?

Interestingly, Ibuprofen seems to do wonders in terms of muting the tightness/pain. I've been avoiding it so as to not desensitize my problem. Ughh. What a mess I'm in. I thought Plantar Fascitis was tough... but groin problems take the cake.

I am dealing with the same issue. Second time around... so far the only thing that has dimmed the pain is stim and self massage as well as pushing on the leg press machine. I think mine is more of an alignment issue and favoritism of said leg thats causing this to happen again. Just curious to know how to completely resolve the issue. Running itself has been extremely painful.

I struggle every now and then with aching hips and have narrowed it down to sartorius problems. One year it's the left, the other the right... Seems to be triggered by spike work every time even if I really try to ramp up cautiously. Currently my right hip hurts when run-loading it. No other problems. Very weak when trying to pull knee toward chest. And can feel the right sartorius is not really "firing" at all.

Some good tips here, will try the ball and roller specific routines and see if I can get any progress. Will update, in case more frustrated runners look to this thread.

Osteitis Pubis