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Soccer related injury - help a guy out......
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:40 am
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:40 am
I'll try to keep this brief.....
I'm in my early 30s, not in the best shape of my life, but started playing in a local Sunday 11v11 league this season. Played soccer 2 seasons a year from age 6 to age 18. Played in a few pick-up games during college, and basically nothing since then. So the first game (in late January) went okay, but I had what I thought was an unnatural amount of soreness all week following the game - especially in my hip/groin. I didn't strain anything as far as I could tell, I was just sore as all hell.
Warming up for game #2 the next weekend I popped my groin on the left side - first side-step lunge I did it felt like someone hit me with a fricking spear in the adductor longus (muscle that runs from inner thigh into hip/pubic bone). Could barely move my leg for a couple days, and couldn't move it laterally (across the front of my body) for a week without severe pain.
Fast forward about 7 weeks, and between me resting the injury and damn near a straight month of rain-outs I finally get back on the field - this was 2 weekends ago (not yesterday). Everything goes fine. I am careful warming up & stretching, and play the full game with no issues. Not too sore over the following week (nothing like following game #1), but as I was warming up for the game yesterday - BAM. Mirror image groin pull from week #2 - same side, same motion, etc. I figure I am done for the rest of this season (only 2 weekends left).
I had a ton of athletic injuries growing up, but a groin was never one of them. My teammates aren't much help - most haven't dealt with a groin and those that have just said "tons of rest". Anyone that has had issues with a groin - how did you get over it & prevent recurrence? The fact I popped it yesterday with such a minor motion when I had almost no soreness carrying over from the week before is making me nervous that I might have done something to it in week #1 (or sometime prior) that is going to keep limiting me for who knows how long.
And yeah, I failed on keeping it brief.
TL;DR - pulled the same groin twice in about 8 weeks. WTF can I do to keep this from happening every time I try to play?
I'm in my early 30s, not in the best shape of my life, but started playing in a local Sunday 11v11 league this season. Played soccer 2 seasons a year from age 6 to age 18. Played in a few pick-up games during college, and basically nothing since then. So the first game (in late January) went okay, but I had what I thought was an unnatural amount of soreness all week following the game - especially in my hip/groin. I didn't strain anything as far as I could tell, I was just sore as all hell.
Warming up for game #2 the next weekend I popped my groin on the left side - first side-step lunge I did it felt like someone hit me with a fricking spear in the adductor longus (muscle that runs from inner thigh into hip/pubic bone). Could barely move my leg for a couple days, and couldn't move it laterally (across the front of my body) for a week without severe pain.
Fast forward about 7 weeks, and between me resting the injury and damn near a straight month of rain-outs I finally get back on the field - this was 2 weekends ago (not yesterday). Everything goes fine. I am careful warming up & stretching, and play the full game with no issues. Not too sore over the following week (nothing like following game #1), but as I was warming up for the game yesterday - BAM. Mirror image groin pull from week #2 - same side, same motion, etc. I figure I am done for the rest of this season (only 2 weekends left).
I had a ton of athletic injuries growing up, but a groin was never one of them. My teammates aren't much help - most haven't dealt with a groin and those that have just said "tons of rest". Anyone that has had issues with a groin - how did you get over it & prevent recurrence? The fact I popped it yesterday with such a minor motion when I had almost no soreness carrying over from the week before is making me nervous that I might have done something to it in week #1 (or sometime prior) that is going to keep limiting me for who knows how long.
And yeah, I failed on keeping it brief.
TL;DR - pulled the same groin twice in about 8 weeks. WTF can I do to keep this from happening every time I try to play?
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Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:45 am to EastcoastEER
sometimes those things never completely heal. rest, ice, stretching, yoga, pilates, etc.
emphasis on stretching from now on
emphasis on stretching from now on
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:49 am to EastcoastEER
Pubalgia.
Rest, applied heat, massages. It´s going to be hit or miss, unfortunately probably forever, from here on out.
Surgery is the only alternative.
ETA Like S said, various stretching exercises, and you´ve got to get your core rock solid and strong, to discharge some of the stress the groin, hip and inner upper leg must endure.
Rest, applied heat, massages. It´s going to be hit or miss, unfortunately probably forever, from here on out.
Surgery is the only alternative.
ETA Like S said, various stretching exercises, and you´ve got to get your core rock solid and strong, to discharge some of the stress the groin, hip and inner upper leg must endure.
This post was edited on 4/7/14 at 10:53 am
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:49 am to EastcoastEER
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nervous that I might have done something to it in week #1 (or sometime prior) that is going to keep limiting me for who knows how long.
I'm sitting in the urgent care waiting room two weekends ago, or in my PCP's waiting room on that Monday. I understand why you didn't go initially, but I think it'd be better now if you sucked it up and saw someone in person.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:53 am to EastcoastEER
Dude, go see a doctor or a PT.
Until then you need to be stretching that thing as much as humanly possible, and ice it for 15 minutes at a time at least twice a day.
Until then you need to be stretching that thing as much as humanly possible, and ice it for 15 minutes at a time at least twice a day.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:54 am to EastcoastEER
I don't know much about injuries, but once you heal I would start stretching those muscles for about 15 minutes daily. See if that helps at all.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 11:11 am to Dandy Lion
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It´s going to be hit or miss, unfortunately probably forever, from here on out.
What I was afraid of. Looking back on week #1, I am starting to think I did something during that game. I didn't have an "injury" moment (with the sudden onset experienced during weeks #2 & #8), but the level of discomfort and soreness experienced afterwards was too excessive to be anything other than an injury.
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you´ve got to get your core rock solid and strong, to discharge some of the stress the groin, hip and inner upper leg must endure.
Yeah, my core is pretty pathetic so I can guarantee that contributed here.
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Dude, go see a doctor or a PT. Until then you need to be stretching that thing as much as humanly possible, and ice it for 15 minutes at a time at least twice a day.
Figured this should be my next course of action (see a doc), but is it cool to be stretching a groin immediately after injury? The pain experienced just getting into position to stretch it right now leads me to think not.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 11:14 am to EastcoastEER
Ice the inflammation, heat the recuperation.
An operation is not that big of a deal. You may be 45 days on the dry dock.
An operation is not that big of a deal. You may be 45 days on the dry dock.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 11:20 am to EastcoastEER
Rest is basically it. Had groin injury as a teen and it will linger for years, literally.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 11:41 am to EastcoastEER
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but is it cool to be stretching a groin immediately after injury? The pain experienced just getting into position to stretch it right now leads me to think not.
Not a doctor yet, so you should go see a real one
I don't want to tell you yes and then have it set you back further. Maybe do some googling, but for persistent injuries stretching is the main course of action, along with NSAIDs (but don't take these if you have a history of ulcers or stomach bleeding, if you're on a blood thinner, loop diuretic, etc).
Posted on 4/7/14 at 4:01 pm to cwil177
Damn, we don't start groin/hip stuff until next week. Probably for the best, I wouldn't want to give you a completely incorrect diagnosis
Posted on 4/7/14 at 4:22 pm to americanoutlaw
Go see a sports medicine physician. You will probably be wasting your time seeing a primary care doctor for something like this.
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