Please Help- My thigh gave way during football

[physiofixme]

Where is your pain??? ie; is it at the front of your thigh?? or at the side of your thigh by your knee? Back of your thigh??

[newtownalex]

its high up the thigh in the middle and sort of inside aswell, its fine now and i can jog fine but i cant sprint as it just hurts

[physiofixme]

It sounds like a hip flexor strain (with the possibility of some groin muscle involvement depending on where your pain is) your hip flexor muscles basically act to bring your knee up toward your chest. Muscle strains can take a while to heal and it's really important to be doing all the right stuff to help them heal more efficiently. you should be getting regular massage (by physio) and frictions(by physio) to stop the scar tissue getting too thick as it's healing. you should be doing stretches to help keep the muscle flexible as it's healing and then strengthening exercises to help build strength back in to the new muscle tissue. Before returning to playing, you should incorporate some of the actions you'd do on the field in to your rehab programme ie: light jogging to warm up and then gentle sprints, slowly building up from there so that your muscle is gradually building back in to the activity again.

Your physio should be able to help with all of this. Also look at the surrounding muscles (muscle imbalance). Your physio should be able to tell you if there is a weakness in a surrounding muscle which may mean you are overloading your hip flexor. If so then this should also be addressed. hope this helps.