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Question:
On Tuesday I skated for 2 hours, and later that afternoon, swept the driveway,
seemingly without incident. However, I woke up on Wednesday with a sore lower
back. It got a little worse, then a little better, and by this Friday morning,
it felt well enough that I thought if I could just stretch out the back, it
would be fine.
Well, I thought wrong. On the first (gentle) stretch, pain exploded in my left
leg, leaving me feeling as if my front quad had done a million leg extensions.
All day today, my left leg has been painful with the pain running down the
front of the leg from the hip bone, along the outer edge of the thigh to the
knee where it crosses under the knee and goes down the inside front of the
shin. I can't find a comfortable way to sit, stand, or lie down, and walking is
painful.
I remember reading somewhere that described some similar symptoms (pain
down the front of the leg instead of down the back as in sciatica) and their
treatment with exercises. Does anyone have any ideas on how to treat this at
home?
Answer:
It sounds like you have generalized or telescoping pain from a tendon overuse,
maybe. When this happens to me I use rest and ice. Also, I use very gentle
massage in hopes of finding the exact source of the pain. For me, the pain
usually decreases in area to a very specific spot on a tendon.
There is a tendon that runs down the side of your legs. I tweaked these big
time last year after my first session of folk dancing, so you might try
massaging for this tendon. I think it was from the sudden sideward movements.
Did you do anything very different in your skating or any other activity? For
example, if you worked on lifting a great deal on crossovers that might put a
great deal of usual stress on the side leg tendons.
My husband did the same thing one winter shoveling snow. He saw a chiropracter.
That's my suggestion. Run (if you can) do not walk to a good chiropracter. An
MD will give you muscle relaxers, etc. and it will take alot longer to heal.
I think you just overdid it and threw things out of whack, plus
alot of muscle p[ain. Shoveling and sweeping is the worst because you get in
that "middle position" of not really bending and not standing up straight.
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