Well, a bit cheesed off. After planning a nice days ride at glentress/inners I started off on the freeride section of glentress and within 10 mins I'd pulled my back again and spent the next 4 hours sat in the car waiting for everyone else to return instead.
Well, im sick of this - completely debilitating and excruciatingly painful (cocodamol don't even begin to touch it) - I'm out of action again. Properly gutted. Well every time it's failed in the past I've been told it was my back and "it's just mechanical back pain, everyone gets it at some point - man up" - two GP's and a physio. So I've done a lot of hunting around the internets and found it's almost definitely a hip flexor failure, not my back (strictly) at all. It manifests itself as pain in my lower back but has all the symptoms and causes of hip flexor failure and none of lower back injury (no pain down legs, no pain on pressing vertebrae etc). And it coincides with my hip flexors feeling tight in the last week or so and spending a lot of time sat down.
So instead of visiting the GP I'm just going to sign in to the local NHS physio (self referral) and see what they say, I can't go on having these failures every few months. Does anyone have any experience with these injuries? What caused it this time was trying to man-handle my bike mid-air (trying to pull it forward under me as if to manual out of a landing)
). Though I am ultimately concerned about the future of it (having a family member just undergo an op to sort a similar problem and leave permanently in a wheelchair) I need to find the real cause and work towards repair. I think the walk-in NHS physio here is pretty much instantaneous (amazingly!) so I'll speak to them and see if they'll refer me upward to a specialist who will at least use something more advanced than fingers to take a peek, unlike the doc.
