So my kid has trochanteric bursitis on her left hip... Anyone else deal with this? We went to Immediate Care last night and now we will be off to a Sports Med Dr. in order to confirm and discover treatment. For now she's on Medrol (steroid). Good times eh?
I don't know if it's bursitis, per se, but my son has been dealing with hip pain for quite a while now. I would guess it's a "hip pointer", but I don't know what the official diagnosis would be. He refuses to go see the trainer at high school because he knows if he does that, he'll get shut down for a couple weeks and he doesn't want to miss games right now. He just spends a lot of extra time stretching before every practice and game (and deals with the pain).
I hear ya - I don't want my kid missing any of Fall either! Put your finger on the middle part of the hip and see if there is any pain. When you find the spot have him lift his leg with your figer depressed in that spot. If it hurts bad then it's likely bursitis. Stretching will help for sure - get some anti-inflamitory meds which can help as well.
Thanks for the tip - I'll see if he'll let me check him out tonight. He's had his share of hip pain over the past few years, so I just worry that it's getting worse each week. His hope is to make it through the next month and a half or so to get through the HS season, then shut it down for a couple weeks before club season gets rolling.
If he's doing club then I would not worry about taking time off HS games. If he pushes himself too much through potential injuries now it might lead to worse injuries later that could force him to miss club.
My son just got diagnosed with that as well....they put him on 300 mg of Advil every 8 hours for 3 days, no running for the three days, and will be re-looked at tomorrow. I guess it's an inflammation of the hip? He had pain in his hips and the outside of his leg-I thought it was just a tight IT band, but they started with the trochanteric bursitis diagnosis first after his xray came back clean. He's feeling much much better today after our third day on the advil (and rest).
So far the Medrol she is on is not working that well. We did advil over the weekend and that worked but I am not sure how I feel about that much advil. Hope your son feels better.
YES! I was worried about too much advil as well, but the orthopedic said for the 3-4 days it's not an issue since it's well under 800 mg. He got re-evaluated today and that did the trick-no more pain/stiffness and is cleared to run/play. I hope your daughter is feeling better soon too and is able to play this weekend if she has any games!
Looks like cold laser helps for this... Should be in the toolbox once you confirm it's nothing structural or chronic... It's been a huge help for my boys occasional knee tendonitis
Well I had to pick her up at our varsity high school football match last night - rashes all over her legs and arms. Our friend is a dr and she was there and suggested that the Medrol is causing an allergic reaction so no more Medrol. I'm going to try the advil route because it worked last weekend during play.
So I am annoyed... The IC Dr did a test where he placed two fingers in the center of my kids hip and pressed down (while she was standing up). She immediately was in pain. He had her lift the leg for motion and pressed again and it was pain. No where else did she claim pain. His diagnosis was bursitis. Just went to the specialist and he smirked off bursitis - which was annoying in of itself. Doc then did one resistance test and said that it could be tendonitis of left psoas hip The other possibility (which would require surgery is femoroacetabular impingement hip. If so the season is done - which fine, we can be ready for high school at least. That said, she has all the symptoms of busitis and maybe one symptom of the other two. I feel like I completely wasted the morning! My kid broke down in th eparking lot afterwards - mascara running all down her face. Total and complete meltdown at the thought of not being able to play.
Hang in there, to both of you. By high school -- and as a parent, I feel this, too -- that end point is visible on the horizon unless you're definitely headed to a college team. Every one of those games is pretty important. Mine's a junior and hobbling through some as-yet-undiagnosed knee pain (he's had a couple of injuries in that knee in the past two years including a PCL sprain) and absolutely ready to go to the mat to avoid the doctor because he knows that, even if the advice was to sit for a month, that's most of the remainder of the HS season. He looks OK on the field, but he's otherwise limping around if he doesn't think we're watching. Frustrates the heck out of me. He has a friend, also a junior, sitting out this season with an ankle problem and the worry that his issue could be long term. I've been amazed at his perspective, being able to think, at his age, that this could be a problem later in life, so sitting makes some sense. He's done that with zero parental pressure, according to the parents.
That has to be really frustrating - I hope they can get a diagnosis soon and it's nothing too serious.
My son falls into this category as well. He won't let us take him to see a doctor and refuses to go to the trainer at school as well. He's thinking he might want to play club soccer in college (he's looking at D1 schools, academically, not for soccer), but high school will likely be the end of his career aside from that. So he doesn't want to miss any of his remaining season and a half of HS soccer.
So sorry she's dealing with both this injury and these schmucks in the medical profession. When my son was a Junior, he missed a whole year due to an injury at the end of the summer. Had surgery in early October (delays, man), and when he went for his post-operation appointment with the surgeon after getting his torn meniscus fixed, she was somewhat brusque and direct, letting him know that there was no guarantee at all that he would be able to play again. Granted, he'd been warned before, but that was before the surgery--once it was finished and deemed a success he'd likely convinced himself it was a slam dunk. I remember sitting there thinking she was being kind of a bummer, but also realistic...and also thinking he was taking it well. Then we left, walked all the way out to the parking garage, got in the car, and started to drive home. We'd both been silent the whole time after we finished the appointment. I started to say something, and he completely ********ing lost it. I've never heard him sound so anguished. It hit him, all of a sudden, that it might all be over and there was nothing to be done. The hopelessness...I'll never forget that moment. I didn't know what to say. I just let him let it out. It's hard. But he got through it, and thankfully the surgery held and he's still playing. And I'm sure she'll be back to playing at full strength before too long. Just be supportive, and let her work through her fears.
I feel for your son but I'm glad to hear that it's worked out for him. The prospect of "never again" is a lot to deal with at that age. My son was a HS freshman when the PCL sprain happened due to what in all honesty was a cheap shot by an older player at a small-sided tournament. It looked bad to me, and he knew it might be a real problem. He lost it as we put him in a wheelchair to get to the car. And yeah, neither my wife nor I had anything to offer that would help. It thankfully wasn't as bad as all three of us thought it might be.
Thanks for that. Hope your son isn't overdoing it while playing through the pain. Easy for us old farts to say so from the sidelines, of course!
How is everyone's injuries treating their kids at this point? I haven't heard a lot of complaints from my son recently and I don't see him hobbling like he was earlier in the year. Fortunately (or not, as was the case recently), he's had opportunities to rest more in games lately. A couple because of blowouts, and then Saturday because of an unfortunate double-yellow in last Tuesday's game which resulted in a one game suspension).
Similar for my son -- not limping around and fewer complaints. All good, I guess? Gotta say I'm relieved I don't have the only kid who is prone to cards. Mine definitely leads his team (and takes maybe a little too much pride in being the team's master of "professional" fouls) -- I've been worried he might be on his way to some kind of school record.
Four yellows last season, four so far this season (unfortunately, the two were in the same game). Not sure how many in his club career. I will say, of the 8 cards over the last two years, really only one or two I was upset at him over. One last year where he wouldn't keep his mouth shut. He's had one or two that were definitely in the category of "professional foul". His first one last week seemed pretty quick from the ref, he was (seemingly, as I was out of earshot) politely asking for an explanation of a PK call against his goalie and the ref wouldn't let him finish a sentence. Unfortunately, late in the second half he went for a slide tackle and missed the ball - standard yellow card. He should have backed off and let the ball go, knowing he was on a yellow, but he was trying to hustle.
My kid walked off in the last ten of a blowout win with ankle/heel pain which persisted the next two days. He had to play goalie to get any time on Sunday (coach asked if he was 100% and hearing no did the right thing even though he's one of the teams anchors). Monday still in pain so I dragged him to a podiatrist who did not think it was anything serious and he needs to stretch better and spend a week not running. He's fighting it, but I'm pretty insistent he not pick up some long term injury at 10 (U12). In the same blow out game a team mate was dirty fouled by two others on a breakaway and got a concussion - terrifying.
This thread brings up all the reasons why I keep a physical therapist (and ex-college player) and two superb performance trainers in my favorites list. I understand that many players simply do not care for summer days in the weight room, in-season performance training, proper nutrition, etc., but life's a lot better when they do.