That’s why I don’t ice or heat any injuries I probably should, though. My body has taken a beating from decades of playing basketball. League game last night and my joints feel like hell, but the pain is worth it! Good thing is I have a week to hobble around and recover until the next game.
I'm not the ortho in the group but isn't that the purpose of a metrology dose pack or a cortisone shot? I get having to break the cycle of chronic inflammation but for acute injuries I believe there might be a difference.
I’m not a fan of this answer as I just turned 50 and the nagging injuries seem to be piling up from sleeping on my neck wrong, wrist problems swinging a golf club and a bad rotator cuff that’s screwed up my bicep tendon on that arm as well. I’m trying to train differently now for flexibility and coordination but it’s still hard with an old school mentality to not lift to be the biggest mf’er in the gym. I can’t lift with my kid now for that reason. I have found a jump rope. Novel idea.
I can only tell you what I know about cortisone as they are good for pain management (I get one every 4 months in my left thumb joint as there is basically not much cartilage there) but it is only pushing me closer to surgery as it breaks down tissue. I am experimenting with ozone injections now which is basically only liquid oxygen shot into areas to help oxygenate and rebuild. You can certainly feel it as it’s injected into the inflammatory areas. Jury still out on this therapy for me tho.
Yeah cortisone isn't a fix. In my case it helped me with chronic inflammation of my elbow. Golfers elbow. Once the pain and inflammation was managed a simple change in grip while lifting weights kept it from reoccurring. Prior to that I had one other injection and the pain returned pretty quickly because I hadn't fixed the underlying issue, namely wrist mobility and the poor grip technique I mentioned.
As far as I know no bruising, of course I can't see the back of my hamstring but someone would have mentioned it if there was bruising. What I did have though which has gone away now was a knot about the size of a fist right at the top of the hamstring, just below my buttocks. I think that knot was one reason it was painful to sit in a chair. Now that the knot is gone I can sit much longer. Still sore but at least bearable.
Never had any problem with my wrist then all of a sudden I can’t swing a club. My chiro gave me some rehab exercises and told me to quit warming up off the matt as it doesn’t give naturally like grass does.
I had a ridiculous amount of bruising with mine, the entire back of my thigh turned purple and when it was healing almost my whole thigh turned yellow.
All those early life injuries are definitely cumulative. Hence medicare I was later 50’s when I dinked my hammy. Was looking out the window and saw the dog circling and a snake striking at him. Too far to see what kind of snake and I killed a rattler the day before. I go sprinting from the house, made it about 100’ then wam, flop. I went down so hard even the snake paused to look. And it was a damn big rat snake…..
I tore mine back in college playing intramural football, and I thought I had just pulled it really bad. Walking to and from class was a sloooooow process. Thank the Lord I lived on the second floor of Rawlings because it has a ground-level entrance. It's going to take a while. Go see an orthopedic doctor to find out what you did to it. You may need surgery or just physical therapy. Whatever your PT tells you to do, do it.
I pulled mine playing pickleball. I was back on the court in 10 days. I'm 70 years old. I would post a picture but I'm not technically savvy enough.
Actually I think I'm healing a bit faster than I expected. Like I said in the original post, for the first couple of days I couldn't move without moaning & groaning. Even rolling over in bed was a major issue. Here a week later I am able to walk without a walker or cane. It is just getting up and down and things like getting dressed are still quite painful. I am beginning to think that maybe sleeping on oxygen is helping with the healing process. I am still sleeping on O2 from the congestive heart failure back in July, just a thought but I do wonder if the extra oxygen might be helping with the healing process.
Pulled mine when I went through SERE training at Fairchild AFB. Hurt like hell! Lots of therapy and time in the cold tub. Luckily it didn't require surgery or anything invasive.
I pulled/tore mine trying to barefoot water ski way back in the last millenium and the doc threw me a pair of crutches, said that there wasn't really anything they did to fix the problem other than time, and said he'd see me again in 2 weeks. I was on those crutches for the full two weeks and basically couldn't walk without them. I don't think PT was a thing back in the early 80's. Now I have a nice knot where my leg meets my gluteus maximus. I was 18 though and healed up pretty fast, but it would still bother me if I did any kind of sports involving running for over a year. However, the full tear of my quad tendon that I manage to do in 2020 was a much worse and required surgery to hook it back up.
I tore my right hamstring partially off the knee when I was 23. It took close to 6 months to get back to normal. No surgery was required. It was hard driving a stick shift car because my right leg did not have enough strength to operate the (non-power) brakes, so I had to use my right hand to push the top of my knee to get enough force to stop the car. I had to constantly think about what each hand and leg was supposed to be doing at all times. I couldn't use the left leg to stop the car because the engine would stall. I couldn't afford to rent an automatic transmission car for any length of time.
My younger brother was having back problems a few years back. The doctor took xrays and then asked him when he broke his back. My brother said "I never broke my back". The doc showed him the healed disks on the xray. My brother said it must have been from a barefoot skiing accident. He was laid up for a few days after a fall and never dreamed it was a broken back.
I pulled my hammy today trying to get to the remote with 47 seconds left in the game to turn the tv off.
