Here are anatomical parts and phrases that describe my pain: ischial tuberosity , piriformis syndrome, hip bursitis. The physical therapist Steve Orrock said it's hard to know what came first: rigid lower back which pushed running impact into my hips, or hamstrings that got so tight they pulled everything down and out of wack. But it resulted in my swollen, painful hip that stopped me cold. I've had tons of tighness in my butt for over a year, which I now know where my hamstring connects to my ischial tuberosity. I felt a little out of wack the days before SGM, but not that bad. I thought I was careful to run thorugh so many kinds of smaller injuries in late summer. But tendons in my hips and lower back became rigid probably for having to overcompensate for those injuries. Anyway...After many days of jogging on the little trampoline, doing the slide board, riding the stationary bike, stretching, stretching, stretching, stretching and more stretching......today I got on the treadmill to be video taped. It was really helpful. I have not been letting my knees absorb any shock and it's been going into my hips. That's probably been going on a long time. I also am not twisting at all to aid in my stride. So I was holding really still on top forcing that pressure down, and running hard on legs that were not correctly absorbing shock in the knees-- and deferred the shock back up to the hips. So my hips were being compressed by my upper and lower body. That's kind of the gist. So I have a little bit of a posture re-correct (leaning more forward, knees more bent deferring lower limb shock, arms higher and closer to the body, and counter twisting with stride to defer shock out from upper body. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All I can say is, I finally ran a tiny bit on the treadmill (3 miles) practicing this way, and I feel pretty ok. This is the best day, since the best day I had last week. In fact, I think I might just cry from the pure relief of just knowing what to do from now on. | 