My Consultants first words to me were it was a jolly good thing we sent you for an MRI before we did anything else as the results showed up a stress fracture to the sacral bone of the hip parallel to the sacroiliac joint. In all his time he'd never seen a "stressy" located where mine was, though a quick google finds some studies of runners suffering stressy's close by see here
He said 3 months for recovery, try walking with a stick(!!!) for a month and only walk when necessary.
Rowing / Cycling / Swimming and core exercises are OK
In a way the diagnosis is a good thing as a stressy will clear up with rest by itself, though it does mean that the European Masters 'Out of Stadium' Championships, where I'd hope to compete against the best in Europe over 10K and Half Mara is now out of the equation sadly! As is the Gold Coast Mara or Half.
I shall focus on my core and get by with other exercise in the meantime (incidentally today I started doing push ups using a straight finger stance! Only 10 before reverting to palms but nevertheless it's a start).
DrJH coined it with the technical vernacular "Shaggers Pelvis" , I wish!
World Masters Games in Sydney in October will have to be the next goal. But I would dearly like to be able to at least jog around Parly Hill (London) in May.
4 comments:
Bugger!
That is a blow. I hope all goes well, and the enforced rest sees you come back fitter and faster than ever ...
Craig
Must be good to finally have a diagnosis, hope the recovery goes well and look forward to seeing you back running (in the not to distant) future, Dave Scroope
Must be good to finally have a diagnosis, hope the recovery goes well and look forward to seeing you back running (in the not to distant) future, Dave Scroope
Hey Bro, with all the upper body development from the press up work and achieving the "100" bench mark, is it not feasible to invert your body and to start running on hands! Tim
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