Thigh and buttock pain

Gwen10 wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering if maybe someone has gone through something similar.

About 4 weeks ago I started to experience pain in the front of my upper thigh. I didn't pay much attention to it since I'm used to feel pain every now and then in different places and they normally just go away, so I just kept training. It even hurt a bit while I was walking, normally just during the first few steps after getting up from a chair.

One week after that, I had a 30k long run and I kept feeling the pain but it was still okay. A week after that I ran for 20k at an easy pace, and the pain increased throughout the day. Next morning, I needed to use both of my hands to move my leg and get up. I could walk, but every step was really painful. When I tried to raise my leg from a sitting position, it hurt a lot.

I went to the hospital and they gave me an x-ray, but they only checked my bone and artheries were fine... I spent a week on crutches as a precaution, and then I've been resting for an extra week (2 weeks in total), but I'm not 100% okay.

The pain now is minimum. I would give it a 1 out of 10, but it has been like this for a week, no improvement. It hurts more with the first movements in the morning or after long periods of rest. Leg raise does not hurt. It hurts when I start walking. If I stand on the injured leg, squat and go back to normal standing position, it only hurts when I put my healthy leg on the floor. Lately I've also felt some pain in the upper right part of my buttock.

I'm really desperate. I have a marathon at the beginning of May and I can't stop training. I have a half in a week, but I guess I'll need to skip that...

Has anybody experienced something similar?

Gwen10 wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering if maybe someone has gone through something similar.

About 4 weeks ago I started to experience pain in the front of my upper thigh. I didn't pay much attention to it since I'm used to feel pain every now and then in different places and they normally just go away, so I just kept training. It even hurt a bit while I was walking, normally just during the first few steps after getting up from a chair.

One week after that, I had a 30k long run and I kept feeling the pain but it was still okay. A week after that I ran for 20k at an easy pace, and the pain increased throughout the day. Next morning, I needed to use both of my hands to move my leg and get up. I could walk, but every step was really painful. When I tried to raise my leg from a sitting position, it hurt a lot.

I went to the hospital and they gave me an x-ray, but they only checked my bone and artheries were fine... I spent a week on crutches as a precaution, and then I've been resting for an extra week (2 weeks in total), but I'm not 100% okay.

The pain now is minimum. I would give it a 1 out of 10, but it has been like this for a week, no improvement. It hurts more with the first movements in the morning or after long periods of rest. Leg raise does not hurt. It hurts when I start walking. If I stand on the injured leg, squat and go back to normal standing position, it only hurts when I put my healthy leg on the floor. Lately I've also felt some pain in the upper right part of my buttock.

I'm really desperate. I have a marathon at the beginning of May and I can't stop training. I have a half in a week, but I guess I'll need to skip that...

Has anybody experienced something similar?

SI Joint? wrote:

I am just getting over something that sounds very similar, following 4 weeks of physio therapy to correct the issue (which would have been less if I'd had it sooner, so don't run through the pain).

I thought I had a hip flexor strain or something, as the pain was predominantly in one hip/thigh. I had absolutely no back pain at all, but turns out my lower back was super tight and was causing the issue, from the sacroiliac joint.

I would definitely see a physio if you can, but in the mean time do some back extensions (lie face down on bed, lift up like a press up but keep hips and legs on bed, 10 reps a couple times a day), hold&release for the hip (prop bum on edge of bed, hang legs out over, lift each leg in turn, hold front of knee and push knee towards hand - hold it still - for 5 seconds, then breathe out and gently pull knee to chest using your hip - 5 reps each side) and also do clamshells or monster walks as the issue likely stems from glute medius/minimus and hip.

Hope this helps! I dropped 90% mileage from Jan to Feb - stupidly racing a couple big xc events only, but am already back to near full fitness, mileage halfway back and beginning proper sessions again steadily