Do you ever get pain in your side? Higher than your hips, like in the oblique area? I think I recently pulled/strained something and am doing a little Google self-diagnosis. My pain is in the side of my right hip and radiates upward. I definitely feel it going up stairs. What do you think, non-medically trained strangers? Am I gonna make it?
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My ignorant band issues were strictly in my knee. But, as has been my luck with running, I am sure at some point I will get it there too.
Is this where your belt is, or higher? My hip flexor injury moved from 1 place or another in that area before it settled. At 1 point I went to an ortho for a hernia, and when it moved around my hip I stopped wearing a belt for a while.
It is right at where my belt is. I actually had to take it off the other day because wearing the belt hurt. I also initially thought that the injury was the result of wearing my water bottle belt wrong somehow, because the pain first started after a long run and it hurt exactly where I wore the water bottle belt.
Isn't that hip flexor and psoas territory? The ITB, IMO, is not usually a cause of injury or pain, it's the result of another area screwing up the ITB. So, pain in the hip, core area might be affecting the ITB instead of the other way around.
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I forget how long I didn't wear a belt for but it was at least 2 weeks. When I had to wear a belt I loosened it. The second I got home I was in sweats.
Once it left there it stayed in my hip flexor area for quite a while.