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Hi gang,
I've been a striker for 8 years and a BJJ girl for about 2. Since 2014 I had a nagging groin pain that wasn't painful but made kicking on the left difficult. Fast forward to June 2017 and it becomes difficult to sit. Moving to Nov. 2017 and to me getting ready for both a standup tournament and a BJJ tournament (same month but a week or two apart) and I noticed I needed to really rub the front of my hip after doing a set of kick drills (literally, between each set I had to stop and rub). Then I discovered forward hip escape was super aggravating on my hip... and soon enough, I couldn't walk! I went to a doctor, got a script for PT and made some progress (I can now walk again and run short distances and even kick for a short while) but any length of inactivity (sitting, not doing my PT homework for a day, etc) causes burning in my hip. Seems counter-intuitive that less activity would hurt just as much as full activity....
I should note, there is NO tear showing on the MRI, just bone spurs.
My doc suggested I go back to training and if it flares up again, he thinks he should scope.
Although the MRI doesn't show a tear, I have a high pain tolerance and the burning feeling in the front of the hip will NOT go away even if all other symptoms subsided. Might that be a sign of a tear? Even if there isn't a tear... the doc said I will eventually tear my labrum if I continue martial arts (which is my life.. I also teach!)
Should I wait for the tear or scope sooner for a faster recovery? I'm 30 but on some days I feel like I'm 100. The cam deformity has been with me since puberty I think - it prevented me from doing certain movements back when I did high school gymnastics but I suppose since I was a teen I was able to keep on truckin' without knowing I had FAI.
Anyone who has been there done that, I'd appreciate your thoughts and I'd love to hear where you are now in your training. Right now, pre-surgery I'm modifying how I throw my kicks, making sure to use more glutes and psoas initiation but how can I modify BJJ aside from avoiding things like Spider or forward hip escape? Seems impossible to reach my potential with FAI....
Thanks!
I've been a striker for 8 years and a BJJ girl for about 2. Since 2014 I had a nagging groin pain that wasn't painful but made kicking on the left difficult. Fast forward to June 2017 and it becomes difficult to sit. Moving to Nov. 2017 and to me getting ready for both a standup tournament and a BJJ tournament (same month but a week or two apart) and I noticed I needed to really rub the front of my hip after doing a set of kick drills (literally, between each set I had to stop and rub). Then I discovered forward hip escape was super aggravating on my hip... and soon enough, I couldn't walk! I went to a doctor, got a script for PT and made some progress (I can now walk again and run short distances and even kick for a short while) but any length of inactivity (sitting, not doing my PT homework for a day, etc) causes burning in my hip. Seems counter-intuitive that less activity would hurt just as much as full activity....
I should note, there is NO tear showing on the MRI, just bone spurs.
My doc suggested I go back to training and if it flares up again, he thinks he should scope.
Although the MRI doesn't show a tear, I have a high pain tolerance and the burning feeling in the front of the hip will NOT go away even if all other symptoms subsided. Might that be a sign of a tear? Even if there isn't a tear... the doc said I will eventually tear my labrum if I continue martial arts (which is my life.. I also teach!)
Should I wait for the tear or scope sooner for a faster recovery? I'm 30 but on some days I feel like I'm 100. The cam deformity has been with me since puberty I think - it prevented me from doing certain movements back when I did high school gymnastics but I suppose since I was a teen I was able to keep on truckin' without knowing I had FAI.
Anyone who has been there done that, I'd appreciate your thoughts and I'd love to hear where you are now in your training. Right now, pre-surgery I'm modifying how I throw my kicks, making sure to use more glutes and psoas initiation but how can I modify BJJ aside from avoiding things like Spider or forward hip escape? Seems impossible to reach my potential with FAI....
Thanks!