Pain

I have some muscle problems, not a pull or anything, just irritated muscles ->> feels like its inside my butt / the inner side of the glutes.
Have had the problem on both legs, and it doesnt stop me from training unless I train too much when the pain is there. It hurts when I run at full speed and when I shoot the support leg hurts.
When I take off a couple of days and maybe take some brexidols or similar, the pain goes away. It comes and goes all the time and I’m sick of it.
Anyone got advice(massage // stretching) or have experienced the same thing?

Were you injured? Do you remember if the pain started acutely (right after a specific action/activity) or chronically overtime and it just got worse and worse?
If the first, how did it occur?
Try slight stretching and maybe even icing yer butt when it starts to bother you. GL

Chronically over time, got worse and worse. I felt it the first time when I was on a training camp, we played soccer 3 hours 6 days a week, and maybe days with 4-5 hours of training… it occured when playing soccer, it was kinda acute, but i didnt have to stop, just felt a slight pain, and got worse and worse over time with much training stress.
but on the other leg I got it here when playing soccer, same thing… now I have it on my left foot only.

I cant massage or stretch it because it is INSIDE my butt, sort of. extremely difficult to feel the area when using hands, I have to press hard on my butt to feel the muscle.

Have you tried stretching the piriformis-muscle?

dont know what muscle that is.
anyone got a chart over muscles? with all the difficult words

Try this:

www.exrx.net

There is a piriformis stretch at the bottom of this page (I do a seated version).

(Don’t pay attention to the nice-looking woman ,she is to old for you :stuck_out_tongue: )

I do this seated piriformis stretch regularly, but it doesnt hit that muscle I have trouble with… much more complicated :wink:

And how many weeks/months have you been feeling this pain?

On my right leg, on and off 11 months ago.
Left leg couple of months.

VG,

you should definetely see a chiro or physio. And next time I wouldn't wait for a whole year before doing something about a thing like that.

Regards,
Robin

Sounds like the deep internal and external rotator muscles. To stretch the external rotators, lie on your back and bing one leg up, with a 90 degree bend in the knee. Wrap a stretching rope or towel around the foot to assist the stretch. Stablize the knee with the opposite hand and rotate the lower leg outward, which causes the thigh to rotate inward, stretching the external rotators. Very few people stretch these muscles.

To stretch the internal rotators, assume the same starting position but rotate the lower leg inward.

You can do these stretches along with the perifromis stretch.

To massage the deeper muscles in the hip, lie on a tennis ball or lean against the wall (depending on how much pressure you can handle). To facilitate deep penetration, bend the hip and allow the knee to fall outward, which relaxes the gluteus max and allows you to get at the deeper tissue. If you’re tight here, this will hurt like hell at first, so be cautious with the pressure. You’ll most likely be pretty sore the day after massaging these deeper muscles since they’ve been tight for so long.

Hope this helps.

I would use the information flash posted and add the pigeon pose to your protocol…although Tim lane does not agree (he is retired now due to the fact his knee blew up) but my history shows it works.

Carl

Sad news about Timothy Lane.

Thanks!!

Yes that’s the right muscle. now I’ll do that stretch together with periformis and pigeon every training day. That will loosen up my extremely tight muscles and hopefully I wont get trouble with my external rotator again. :slight_smile:

Can the pigeon pose(what a lovely stretch ,I’m a convert!) substitute the regular piriformis stretch do you think?

Probably not. The hip musculature is very complex, and you need to hit it from many angles.

I agree. They are both included in my routine now - no reason to get lazy when it comes to the hip-area.