AM - 20 minutes walking on the treadmill and 15 minutes of yoga. I'm starting to feel a tiny bit of progress...finally. I anticipate it taking until the end of the year to heal, but that's okay. Here is the new theory - I strained my iliopsoas muscle when I was hiking (tight hamstring muscles and anterior tilt put extra pressure on that muscle). I kept running on it for a few weeks and it caused a lot of other muscles to compensate. One of those muscles was the gluteus medius muslce and I strained it on a long hard run right before I couldn't run anymore. That made for a pretty shaky pelvic/hip area. Both muscles now have scar tissue which causes more pain, muscle restriction, and lack of healing properly. A weak/poor gluteus medius muscle can cause your hip to drop and the knee to move inward on impact. I noticed this yesterday in me while running. The distal hamstring muscle helps to stabilize the knee joint so it's being stressed to prevent the inward movement and the reason why it's not healing. Whew...so I have three problems - iliopsoas strain, gluteus medius strain, and hamstring tightness/pain. Talk about a fiasco. It makes sense to me...all part of the kinetic chain. Interested to hear what others think. Heading home to TN this weekend for a wedding in the Smoky Mtns and some family time!
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