Please Help- My thigh gave way during football

Hey just wondered if someone can help me, or give any advice

About 7 weeks ago I was playing football when after kicking the ball my thigh gave way followed by quite a bit of pain I could hardly walk the following day . So I rested it for two weeks and then was going on holiday for a month with no exercise, to rest it, and it got better.

Then when I got back lat week I went to football warmed up well since I had been out for a while (jogging,stretching ect...) then about 20 mins in as i ran for the ball i went again!! so I went to see a physio and she said just to rest it and gave me exercises to do that seem a waste of time

I can jog fine but as I start sprinting it hurts to lift my knee up and painfull so I just have to slow down and stop.

can any one give me some advice please, is it a strain ? because i thaught that amount of time it would have healed or could it be a tear? thanks

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??

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

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.

HI
at home warm compresses ie 20 min/every few hours, during shawering pour hot water and use the head to massage the area.

get well