Pain under left butt cheek

It's probably a tear in your hamstring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEgsIlqtKB0

Do these, find any imbalances, fix it.

I also forgot to add that it doesn't hurt while walking. Occasionally, I'll get a very minor twinge of discomfort while walking, but nothing major. When I first stopped running though, the pain was much greater while walking. Now it doesn't really hurt while walking though.

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Ive had piriformis before and tried to run through it for a week. I took 6 weeks off no running and did hip strengthening and started up after the time off slowly with 3 mile runs for a week and moved up from there how i felt. Within 2 weeks of running again it went away and i was able to work back up into regular mileage. Big help for me was the strengthing exercises and access to trainers to work on it. Havent felt it since and its been about a year. You have to be patient about it and it will go away.

Is there any way I could be back sooner than six weeks? And did anyone who has had this do any cross training?

Read this. If you think this is what it is, the exercises in here actually work. Don't stop doing them once it doesn't hurt either or it will come back.

http://www.runnersworld.com/injury-treatment/pain-rear-high-hamstring-tendinitis

Thanks for the links and advice everyone. Sitting doesn't hurt either, by the way. Running is the only thing that really hurts right now (haven't tried cross training yet). Still looking for more input as well.

I'm unsure about the pain below your butt. but I'm pretty sure you have what is called "Snapping hip syndrome". this is basically when your IT band get inflamed and no longer slides smoothly across your bone, instead it snaps over, producing a popping or clicking like sensation. I suggest that you roll out your IT bands, strengthen your glutes. My sister dealt with it severely twice, on both hips. She eventually had to get surgery on both hips.

Good Luck with your recovery

Comrade of War wrote:

I'm unsure about the pain below your butt. but I'm pretty sure you have what is called "Snapping hip syndrome". this is basically when your IT band get inflamed and no longer slides smoothly across your bone, instead it snaps over, producing a popping or clicking like sensation. I suggest that you roll out your IT bands, strengthen your glutes. My sister dealt with it severely twice, on both hips. She eventually had to get surgery on both hips.

Good Luck with your recovery

Had problems with my it band being extremely tight and pulling my knee out of alignment. A year of yoga and daily rolling of the entire it band has eliminated all the pain in the knee and hip. Ramping up the mileage again.

1) It's okay to run as long as this doesn't cause any pain either during or after your running. Be conservative with the pace. Avoid any sprints until the injury is healed, then work into them gradually.

2) Strengthening exercises are good, however stretching can increase tears and make the injuries worse. Never stretch the site of an injury. Instead of this, stretch the adjacent areas so they can take the pressure off the site of the injury.

3) It still sounds to me like an injury to the attachment of your hamstring at the hip. The same thing happened to me and this is a common injury with runners.

Yeah, after reading these replies and some old threads, I'm starting to think it may be a hamstring issue, possibly high hamstring tendinopathy. I may try to run tomorrow and report back, depending on how it feels when I wake up. I've also started to heat the area and then ice it following the advice from some older threads.

Also, I think I may need to get my pelvis aligned by someone because after doing some hurdle stretches, I realized that it's more of my pelvis popping than my hip/SI joint, which is what I originally thought was popping. Should I do go the route of physical therapist, Graston, ART, or some combination of the three or something I haven't mentioned or heard of? Or will I just be fine dealing with this on my own and with the advice and links given in this thread?

Thanks to everyone for their replies and advice. I'll try to keep this updated and it'd be awesome if you guys could check back in every once in a while and chime in with your opinions.

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Yoga is excellent. I did a lot of this to get rid of the hamstring pain in my butt, and continue to do it every morning before running.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZ2CC7nfws

A good exercise that helped me a lot is to bend over like you're touching your toes, and reach your palms like you're touching them to the floor. It's fine to bend your knees when doing this, and you don't have to actually touch the floor. The point is to extend the hamstrings, hold this briefly, come back up and repeat. This is similar to the straight legged deadlifts and explanation from the video that I posted up above. Be sure to stick your butt out behind each time you do this to get the full extension of your hamstrings.

Eccentric hamstring work is key with high hamstring issues. Get on the leg curl machine and really focus on the eccentric motion on the injured side. Long slow extension from the full contraction of the muscle. Start with the minimum amount of weight that will provide resistance. Do not add any more weight if the exercise is at all painful. Some very slight discomfort is ok. Pain is not.

Whatever you do, DO NOT STRETCH IT IF THERE IS ANY PAIN AT ALL WHILE STRETCHING. In fact, just lay off of stretching until it starts to improve noticeably. It is way to easy to do a lot of damage just by very slightly overstretching it.

you need to see a doctor who can actually diagnose what your injury is. There is all sorts of stuff that can go wrong in that area—high hamstring tendinopathy, piroformis, hip joint issues, all sorts of crap. Figure out what's wrong first, then figure out how to fix it.