Struggling to heal from hip injury

[RandallFlagg]

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Zoinks! You poor bastard! (I mean that sympathetically!)

Some impressive compression....hope you're feeling better. Maybe time to make friends with a good neurosurgeon. You at least have some surgical lesions (I've been offered surgery for far less/almost non-existent spine compression)

The good surgeons will tell you honestly if they can help you or not (I get surgery isn't the answer for everything...but man, I suspect your next flare up is gonna lead to you wishing for surgery).

My unofficial non-expert fitness advice is to focus on light core work and fuck the powerlifting. I'm sure you're absolutely jacked so it's hard to accept lighter lifting and less intense workouts but those discs are ticking time bombs

Good job getting the MRI and hope you get taken care of either way!

 

[dumpmutt]

Yeah they look gnarly, I can’t imagine what it looked like in March when I got hurt. The pain back then was unbelievable and I feel fortunate it is where it is now. I see the orthopedic on Monday will see what he says.

I never actually powerlifted, it’s all been bodybuilding style training and I very rarely dip below 8 reps even on compounds.

 

[Laxman3221]

I don’t have much pain from this anymore so I am surprised there’s so much going on in the MRI 7 months after the injury occurred. But the sciatic pain I had initially and for the first few months was the worst I’ve ever had from any injury.

Sucks to hear about deads and squats because those were my best lifts but I suspected this would be the case.

I had some anterior pelvic tilt and I think hip rotation during compounds may have caused this too. I never used a belt and was deadlifting 475 for 8 reps, squatting 375 for 8. The day the injury occurred I pulled 405 for 14 reps.

I hear you man. The pain goes away. You’re like man I can dead lift and squat again. You do it a couple weeks you feel great and then boom you can barely walk.

Sometimes it’s the most mundane of lifting, a small package that weighs like 40 pounds but it’s where how far out you have to hold it puts that stress on the back. Last time my back went out, I moved a few cases of ammo around and they don’t weigh that much.

I guess once a disc bulges it’s susceptible again to do it. I’m really hoping the stretch is gonna get me to the point where my hips stay where they need to and I can try some squats and deadlifts again, but I’ll ask my doctor before I do that. Until then, staying with the leg press and hack squats.

 

[dumpmutt]

I hear you man. The pain goes away. You’re like man I can dead lift and squat again. You do it a couple weeks you feel great and then boom you can barely walk.

Sometimes it’s the most mundane of lifting, a small package that weighs like 40 pounds but it’s where how far out you have to hold it puts that stress on the back. Last time my back went out, I moved a few cases of ammo around and they don’t weigh that much.

I guess once a disc bulges it’s susceptible again to do it. I’m really hoping the stretch is gonna get me to the point where my hips stay where they need to and I can try some squats and deadlifts again, but I’ll ask my doctor before I do that. Until then, staying with the leg press and hack squats.

Yeah I’ve been mostly pain free for a few months but have no intention of squatting or deadlifting for a while. I tried some light box squats and deadlifts a month ago before I saw this doctor. I had no pain from it but I could tell it just didnt feel right. While it’s much better than it was, and I can feel the progression week by week, it is going to be a long time if ever that I get back to those exercises. I always prioritized size and condition over raw strength so those exercises were in my program just because I enjoyed and naturally excelled at them but they’re not critical to my goals.

 

[dumpmutt]

Saw orthopedist today for MRI follow up and he said this is common, not concerning because of how much I've recovered pain wise and likely genetic since it's the 4th I've had since 2021. Prescribed 8 weeks with a spine specialist PT and said I should be fine.