Anybody have any advice for a recreational soccer player with some serious hip pain?? BTW, I was posting in this forum last summer, after getting kicked in the left knee in a game about a year ago and then being diagnosed in August with a bone contusion. I'd say the knee is far from 100% yet, and I managed to tweak the other knee in an intramural basketball game last quarter, but wearing knee braces while playing keeps the pain to a minimum. I first noticed a little bit of pain in the right hip after a game about 2 weeks ago. I don't remember taking a hit or hurting my hip during the game. This might be my first injury not caused by contact. The pain subsided after a day or two. Last week, we played two soccer games--the intramural semifinals and finals. Afterwards, I was again feeling some pain in the hip, but nothing major. A couple of days later, the hip was fine. Yesterday, I was kicking the ball around with my sister and a friend. After about 2 passes, my hip started aching. We modified our little drill so that I would not have to run as much. When I got home, I iced both the hip and the left knee. I didn't sleep much last night because every time I moved my right leg, my hip ached. Today I've been walking with no small amount of pain, and I can barely climb stairs. Our intramural season is over (we finished second after losing in the finals, as we had last year...and as two of my teammates had the 3 previous years), but I've been invited to play on a team this summer. My hip may keep me off the field, though. I am not, however, eager to give up soccer...despite having perhaps more than a couple of good reasons to. Any ideas? Thanks...
Hip problems are what forced me out of soccer at age 16. I played on my high school team and one day pretty much out of the blue, I started limping after practice, without taking any kind of knock. I saw my local doctor and after x-rays, he diagnosed me with mild hip dysplasia, basically my hip socket and ball didn't line up right. I finished up my sophomore season and stopped playing competively. It sucked big time for me. I'm 22 now and after a pelvic osteotomy surgery, I'm hoping for a comeback... to a relative degree (it's not like I was a Freddy Adu talent) but I'd say the odds are against it. It's not very likely that you have the same condition as me, but that was my experience. I was pretty young and the pain didn't get too me, my main symptom was a limp after extended running.
you are just falling apart...i remember your knee problems last year... rest for a couple of days, or weeks and give it <whatever it is> time to rest. i am not sure what could be causing it although i do know people who tend to have reoccurring problems <your knee> tend to "lean" on other parts of the body more in order to lessen the pain in your knee...i have no clue if that could be part of your problem, but i guess it is possible...
Where on the hip do you feel the pain? On the side of the hip or the front? I had trouble with the tendon that connects muscle to the top of the femor on the outside of my hip. The only remedy that worked for me was to stop running for a month. Otherwise the pain would come back.
A similar occurance happened to me once, unexplainable aching, but in my lower back rather than my hip. I recommend you stay off of it for at least a week or two. You could have just bruised the bone or a blood vessel or something. If it continues after a few weeks, go see a doctor.
Re: Re: Hip pain Sad but true, I'm afraid. lol Thanks for the advice everybody. The pain is more in the front. Walking isn't quite as painful as it was yesterday, though stairs continue to be a challenge. Other than walking, I'm planning to be off it for about two weeks. I won't be able to make the weekly soccer practices with my sister and a friend this coming Monday because I have a final exam during that time.
If it's in front, you may be having hip flexor trouble. Do a google search on hip flexor and see what you come up with.
Back in high school I got tendonitis in my hips 3 different times. It is kind of like having "tennis elbow". It was just doing too much all at once. I had to sit out for a few weeks and ease back into it.
Its injuries like these that convinced me to make a decision to take at least one day a week to not play soccer, and if I do at all, nothing more than juggle. I'm 16, not prone to injury, but everyone needs to take rests. Perhaps after you've rested it for a while, you should go through a plan where you just swim or ride a bike instead of running. Running is much harder on the joints than swimming and running. I've read about a lot of players beginning their comeback this way.
Is it a bone-type pain, a joint-type pain, or a muscle-type pain? Since you had knee problems last year, you could simply be overcompensating on the side with your better knee, adding extra strain on the hip on that side. My next guess, though, agrees w/cl_hanley: hip flexor. There are weighted (and nonweighted) exercises you can do to strengthen your hip flexors (and abductors & adductors) without putting much strain on your knees. Also, while you're at it, you'd want to strengthen the muscles "opposite" your flexors to keep everything balanced. I guess that would be your glutes. Either way, just go to a doctor. Better safe than sorry.
hey, I'm falling apart, too. I know the feeling. I had developed hip pain after season. During the off season, I worked out on all of silly hip machines at the health club. You know which ones I'm talking about. All of the ones the women use where you have to spread your legs. Yeah, I felt like an idiot, but my hip pain went away. You could try doing these with ankle weights if you don't have access to a gym. Also, having so many injuries could have put undo stress on other areas. After my knee injury, I pulled a calf muscle. Rest is good. Doctors are good.
Yes, painkillers are very good. I need to buy more. I know it. I should be better about this. :| Well, I know a med student. I'll ask her this weekend if she has any idea what it is and then go from there. From what I've read on the internet, it very well could be my hip flexor. But it's possible too that my other injuries are causing me to put undue stress on the hip. Again, thanks for the advice.
Hip problems are what forced me out of soccer at age 40. I'm 44 now. To be specific, arthritis in both hips. I played with the pain for 4-5 years, but finally gave up. Ugh. Like someone else said, go see a doctor.