Monday, May 30, 2011

Or Is It?????

I am starting to have my doubts again....Over the last week or two, I have been having a gradual increase in pain. Is it because the honeymoon from my vacation is wearing off, or did my cortisone injection actually help more than I thought it did, or am I just plain screwed at this point?????

My new PT continues to address issues in my thoracic spine, ribs, abdominals, which are extremely messed up. I saw her last week, she barely touched my hip and worked a lot on my ribs, which are incredibly messed up, 2 are practically stuck together. She also worked on my thoracic spine and teaching me how to breathe. When I left, my hip was killing me. I thought it was so interesting since she barely worked on it.
What I am experiencing now is an irritation inside the joint when I try to work on hip flexion. I do it in quadruped with gentle rocking, and in standing, by hip hinging. When I try these, I end up with an extremely sore and angry joint.
I am also experimenting and seeing what happens if I only work on the hip or if I only work on the back...what will the hip do. So far both irritate the hip...so I am at a complete loss.

I saw my OS last week, and he agrees with me that I should continue to work with my new PT. He told me that he is finding a different type of problem in women. He called it acetabular-femoral impingement. When someone has regular FAI, in some people, the pelvis will tilt posterior to ease the pain of the impingement, and they end up with issues in the back, like on the hamstring etc. My conclusion is that I have the opposite, I have some sort of problem in the posterior side of the joint so my pelvis is tilting anterior, in turn, all of my anterior hip muscles are "freaking out". One thing my PT is very frustrated at times with is that my pelvis remains more anterior on that side, despite trying to hard to correct it. I am wondering if this is what I am experiencing. Definitely something to discuss this week.
My OS still cannot find anything really wrong with my MRI, which is good and bad! He wants me to come back in 6 weeks, but if things are not better in 3-4 weeks, he wants me to call him. I decided to ask a stupid question, what if PT doesn't help me...then what. He said he would want to scope it, to see what is happening......NO WAY. He promised me that he feels just as strongly as I do about NOT wanting to scope this hip...but it may be the only thing left to do. So....PT needs to start working really well ASAP!

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