George Dorn
After several months of hoping my recurring glute/hip injury will somehow go away, I'm seeing a physical therapist starting next week. I'm a little nervous about it; I've never had so much as a professional massage.
The PT clinic specializes in myofascial release; I'm not even totally sure that's the right place to start for this problem, but hopefully they'll at least figure out what's going on so I'll have more info.
George Dorn
Got a new PT doc yesterday (the old one was subbing in for the summer but moved on). She did do some MFR that was far too light to do much, but was also a more hands-on way to examine the muscles in my lower back; she noticed a couple possible issues.
The workout part seemed super easy but today I am _sore_. I think this might actually help after all.
Of course, I haven't had any major symptoms due to not training capoeira; hopefully I can go back soon.
George Dorn
A followup after the first appointment today:
No MFR; it wasn't even mentioned. The first step is diagnosis, which proved difficult because only intense exercise and particularly acrobatic movements trigger it and I've been taking it easy since it got really bad three weeks ago.
Possible diagnosis is damage to the L4/L5 disk or a nerve therein. I have some really mild (to me) exercises to target the region and gather some data, but no capoeira for me for another week.
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