I began working out again last week, after not being able to for the last 6 months due to other commitents. I did a session of standing barbell military presses, chinups and some treadmill work. The next day my lower back was in a lot of pain. This didn’t feel like the usual muscular pain I get after a workout. The pain was getting worse day by day, particularly when I stood up after sitting for a long period of time, and even walking was painful. I decided to see an osteopath a couple of days ago. He observed that my right leg appeared to be longher than my left, and that my right hip was higher than my left hip.
Then I explained that I fell in the snow about a month ago but couldn’t remember which side I landed on, although I didn’t have any back issues at the time. This was probably the cause of the twisted pelvis he thought. He then bent my leg and tried to push the hip back into place, then gave my leg a pull and I felt it click. Walking felt better and the pain had subsided. Then in the evening at home I got up to get some water and felt dizzy so I set back down, tried getting up again but the dizziness came back so I lied down for 20 minutes, then I was ok.
At night time though it’s painful turning around in bed, and also getting up from a seated position is also uncomfortable. Has anyone else experienced anything like this before? if you did how long was it before you were able to lift again?
I torqued my sacrum once, and the pain was almost unbearable. Couldn’t sleep, couldn’t sit on the toilet, couldn’t do much of anything. Some seriously painful Physical Therapy sessions 3-4x a week had me back in the gym withing 6 weeks, but like I said, the pain was horrible, I would walk like an 80 year old man.
Strongman contest. They had the truck axel deadlift as the last event after we were all pretty wrecked already. I made the lift, but in putting the bar down (shoulda just dropped it, but always the bodybuilder -lol)something just sort of turned on it’s own. When I went to step away from the platform, my entire right leg buckled under me. Until that point, I didn’t even know I had done anything. I’m sure that my dropping 7 lbs during the 2 days before the event might have played somewhat into my being a bit ‘out of sorts’ on that particular day.
a lot of doctors say that one leg is longer than the other, or that your pelvis is “twisted” or rotated. but often times it has to do with a muscular imbalance, where for example one hamstring is tighter than the other, causing the leg to pulled up a little bit higher than the other. Just keep stretching, and you can lift upper still too. you will just have to wait for it to heal to start doing lower. Just my experience though, plus i don’t think falling in snow is really that detrimental, after all, its just snow right? or was their ice involved?