Leg pain (hamstring, calve) and often lower back pain

[alophysio]

Hi Saunaboy,

thanks for the warning in your own story...just wondering...perhaps you acutally irritated the sciatic nerve during your hamstring stretches which is why you have pain in the medial and lateral hamstrings and calf pain, back pain etc?

Do you really have mega tight hip F or just overactive ones? There is a difference...

From the sounds of your story, I would look at your back or thorax more closely...for what it is worth

Cheers!

[saunaboy]

I have no idea if the hip flexors are tight or overactive. All I can go on is the info from my current physio. What I can say is the following if it's any help (and please feel free to suggest anything you think may be of use!!)

1) thomas test is a joke on the right hand side. when I lay back originally, my right leg was actually not able to fall even to the horizontal - it was suspended by about 10 degrees. After basic hip flexor stretches it's gone to about 5 degrees below horizontal. Going any further past that is proving impossible.

2) Quad stretches can be painful (in the knee) & the leg is impossible to keep straight below body during the stretch.

3) Since I have started to release the hip flexors, that is related to the adductor strains. Before the release, cycling caused pain in sartorius & medial knee, after release, I get a chronic pull in the adductors low down into the knee.

4) Rolling IT band has massively increased flexibility in IT band test. Hip pain has stopped.

I do still have some anterior pelvic tilt, but I now have (or at least I feel I have) far less hamstring pull. It may be placebo but my back is easing up as well. I have lost the constant thigh burning that I had but still have a stiffness & vague burning in the inner thigh & top of calves. The area of the inner thighs about 10cm above the medial knee is very irritated.

I do have a very flexible back. Tight low down into the pelvis on right hand side.

Reason I made the point is that all this started with a sore right inner knee !!!!!!