No more marathons
I cannot even tell you when the piriformis pain stopped but I can tell you what I have been doing faithfully before each run 5 to 7 times per week since last year and that is exercises # 8 through 12 of this video.
May be pure coincidence, but today, after two days of doing the Myrtl exercises on this video, I had my most limited pain run (notice I didn't say pain free) in over a month - maybe two.
I'm encouraged. Also, as some had suggested, rather than either ITBS or piriformis syndrome, this could be high hamstring tendinopathy. I will present all of those possibilities to my ortho when I see him next Wed.
Boston 2014 - a 33 year journey
Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
He's a leaker!
Sounds good.
A massage might also help. Pilates would too. My piriformis pain has not come back in the time I've been doing Pilates.
Damaris
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Maybe he should just do a million things. lol
Seriously though, I used to get that searing pain down the back of my thigh for years before I even started running.
What's Tammy's #?