Can stress fracture cause pain on both side of the hips

Torn labrum on one side and IT band on the other?

Cool story bro.

Ask your mom for a little kiss on your injuries.

I don't appreciate jokes when I'm dealing with something that's keeping me out of running completely. Usually the pain is unnoticeable when swimming.

Yes it can because of an irregular gait.

I have two concerns:

If you have a stress fracture you MUST stop running or it will delay recovery.

Why are you running on concrete? You must stop running on hard surfaces.

Proper recovery of a stress fracture is many months of no running then a very gradual return.

I'm afraid you have compromised your recovery and need to stay off that bad leg until the New Year.

Have you had any imaging done? X-rays won't show much unless it's a frank fracture. Soft tissue injuries and stress fractures will show up on an MRI. The higher the resolution, the better.

I would visit a good sports doc, preferably one who is specialized in hips. Compensation from an injury on one side will definitely cause issues on the opposite side. Usually once the original injury is identified and fixed, the other side will settle down.

Get an MRI wrote:

Have you had any imaging done? X-rays won't show much unless it's a frank fracture. Soft tissue injuries and stress fractures will show up on an MRI. The higher the resolution, the better.

I would visit a good sports doc, preferably one who is specialized in hips. Compensation from an injury on one side will definitely cause issues on the opposite side. Usually once the original injury is identified and fixed, the other side will settle down.

Agree with everything said here. Soft tissue injuries very rarely show up on a x-ray but dependent on your doctor/insurance/suspected injury you may be required to get an x-ray before getting an MRI. Some orthopedists have an x-ray machine literally in their office, it takes all of five minutes, and it costs so much less than an MRI that even though it's highly unlikely your injury will show up , in the off chance that it does show up it's worth it. I think insurance may require you get an x-ray first in order to get an MRI.

I've had stress fractures in the hip area and the pain was frequently most often felt not where the fracture actually was yet when my orthopedist did the 'press on the bone and see where it hurts the most' thing the slightest pressure on whichever bone hurt like hell.

I'd also get a copy of the disc and results in case your doctor doesn't give you satisfactory answers. I had an additional radiologist look my images once and find a third stress reaction the official report had missed.

Ok thanks to the posts but my therapist told me this: he says he's 99% sure it's tendonosis since its getting better slowly but he said that I still have to be patient and hold on the running until a few weeks or maybe a month or so. Slow running doesn't cause much pain so he said I can do very slow running and continue cross training. I have full trust in my therapist since he's had twenty years of experiance and has worked with many from great professional athletes to more sedentary people dealing with problems. What do y'all think?

AND ALSO. When I would run before therapy my adductors would get insanely tight the next day. Now tightness usually never occurs so that's one improvement.

Fastytomato wrote:

I'm gonna keep it as simple as possible but I have bad hip flexor and adductor pain (sometime pain on outside of hip too). I've been doing physical therapy for a month and a half and there's been some improvements but the pain is still definitely there and I haven't been able to run much. I've gotten a few slow runs last week with a little pain but today I did 3 fast runs of 15 seconds each (not even nowhere near sprinting speed) and I'm almost limping to walk it's pretty bad pain mostly in hip flexor area. Injury first happened three months ago with a groin pull. I took some time off and then both sides started hurting. All my running during track was done mostly on concrete (except the races).

Get an MRI. From experience, it sounds like a femoral neck stress fracture. I had similar symptoms.

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Just want to say that I greatly appreciate all advice given but I want to know if y'all agree with the Doctor saying its most likely tendosis. He did a few motion tests and said that my hips moved way to well to have a labaral tear and he said that for a young boy like me (high school) that stress fractures in the hips are very rare.

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Fastytomato wrote:

Ok thanks to the posts but my therapist told me this: he says he's 99% sure it's tendonosis since its getting better slowly but he said that I still have to be patient and hold on the running until a few weeks or maybe a month or so. Slow running doesn't cause much pain so he said I can do very slow running and continue cross training. I have full trust in my therapist since he's had twenty years of experiance and has worked with many from great professional athletes to more sedentary people dealing with problems. What do y'all think?

I strongly, strongly urge you to get imaging done. If you have a stress fracture in the femur or the pelvic ring and continue to run on it you can end up doing some pretty severe damage. A PT is not the same as an orthopedist(and I really hope you're not seeing a chiropractor because they are scam artists) and you need to get imaging done to truly diagnose the pain. I had an ankle injury once that was not improving no matter what I did and my very experienced orthopedist(who had served as a team physician for several professional sports teams) thought it was a minor soft tissue injury--but because of my medical history she had me get imaging done and it turned out to be a stress fracture. Had I kept running on it and trying to massage out the pain it could have ended up much worse.

all the best man

Yeah it can but I've known people to also have two stress fractures in each femoral neck so....

OP have you got bone pain? You can be pretty sure its a stress fracture if you do.

I can't feel it specifically due to all the muscle in the region but it definitely might be a femoral neck fracture. One question though. If I do have it would I have to go through the few weeks wearing crutches or can I continue to cross train (I just

mostly do some stationary biking for now and swimming when I get the chance with no pain).

And I took about one month off completely from and physical activity (just some walking) from mid June to mid July.