Left leg, hip stuffed

[Willie Trombone]

Thanks folks. Appreciate the feedback and links. After reading @Shake&Bake post and link I realise that might be the cause. I sit a lot in front of a PC. My posture isn't good and it could definitely be spine related. I believe it was stuffed due to the vigorous walk, but the spine/posture story worsened it.

I had over a year of intense backache and even aborted a trip to Haiti after landing in NYC. I couldn't face a trip with the pain I was experiencing. I went to the doc and it seems the issue was shortening of the tendons / ligaments in my lower back and hips from sitting too much. Those stretches I sent are an enormous help. Exercise helps too but the stretches are the best thing ever...
The most useful for a sitter is the hamstring stretch. Start next to your bed or a chair and keep your legs straight while bending over 90 degrees with arms outstretched onto the bed or chair... hold it for a bit then start reaching down towards your ankles and feel the stretch in your hamstrings and lower back. Do that for 20-30 seconds, come upright and do it again about 2-3 times. Lower back stretching has resolved my back issues almost completely but I have to keep it up as I set way too much.

My biokineticist sessions didn't do nearly as much as simple stretching did. They even thought I had a spine compression but the pain has gone since stretching... and if you want, do the HIT workouts in that folder too (level 1 is fine for starters). Warmup - Lv1 HIT - Cooldown / stretching.

 

[Paul Kemp]

YouTube link

This video is what I have been using.

Side note: While trying to find that video again I realized that yoga pants are my kryptonite. Talk about getting side tracked.

 

[Willie Trombone]

YouTube link

This video is what I have been using.

Side note: While trying to find that video again I realized that yoga pants are my kryptonite. Talk about getting side tracked.

Yeah, these are good. Child's pose and hip flexor stretches, hamstrings... + loads of good back stretches in here.

 

[shiverz]

YouTube link

This video is what I have been using.

Side note: While trying to find that video again I realized that yoga pants are my kryptonite. Talk about getting side tracked.

Links please

 

[Shake&Bake]

I do not recommend going to the public hospital/clinic. There's plenty of cheap R300-ish doctors scattered around the suburbs - go see one of them and get a proper diagnosis and medicines.

Just tough to find that R300 doc who's actually going to give a crap and diagnose correctly. But same goes for hospitals I suppose.

I would start with a physio over a doctor personally.
Other than that, doing daily stretching routines for hip mobility has done wonders for my aches and pains.

Stretches are my jam, since visiting my Chiro all those years ago. I try and do them as often as possible.

Thanks folks. Appreciate the feedback and links. After reading @Shake&Bake post and link I realise that might be the cause. I sit a lot in front of a PC. My posture isn't good and it could definitely be spine related. I believe it was stuffed due to the vigorous walk, but the spine/posture story worsened it.

That's what sent me packing to the Chiro at the time - and I was in way better shape than I am now. I was like the Hunchback of Notre Dame in my moer from Hamstring shortening.

Sciatic nerve. Some people are prone to it, some not. The best solution is theraputic stretching daily - even twice a day if you can. Especially the lower back, hamstrings and hip flexors. It will come right on it's own usually. I will PM you some stretches to try.

^That is the golden DIY remedy, truly

 

[|tera|]

Thanks again folk's. Haven't viewed the videos yet. Working till now. I'll check it tomorrow hopefully.

 

[ponder]

Spine related.

 

[RedViking]

Thanks again folk's. Haven't viewed the videos yet. Working till now. I'll check it tomorrow hopefully.

Break a leg!