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I’ve been struggling with it over the last two weeks. It started with lower back pain then went down the right side of my leg into my foot. The back pain has gone but my right foot is still numb, as is the outside of my right ankle. My muscles in my right leg also seem to have gone weak.
I’ve been to a sports physio who gave me a deep tissue massage and gave me stretches to do and to go back in two weeks.
Anyone suffered from this before?
There was a thread a few weeks back on here.
I had it years ago, now thankfully gone.
Ahh I’ve just found it.
When finding the trigger point with a ball, can I do more damage to the sciatic nerve? Rolling it is pretty painful.
Jeff Cavalere is your answer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YnPxMUYkVdU&pp=ygURQXRobGVhbiB4IHNjaVRpY2E%3D
Weak muscles are tight so I would also incorporate some strengthening of the piriformis muscle ie some clam exercises.
Yeah been there for a couple of years, was even told I needed a knee op as they were convinced I had torn cartilage my knee hurt so badly
Once I found the piriformis release technique it all went. I use a ball, fist is also ok. Very painful first time, then much less so
I’m still suffering with this although my symptoms have reduced. I’ve cancelled future physio appointments as I don’t think it’s worth it. I’ve done three sessions and don’t want to keep paying £50 a session returning every fortnight.
I’m stretching, rolling, strengthening and flossing everyday but I still have numbness in my second toe and my right glute still feels week. Also after a run my right calf feels tight, almost like I have DOMS.
As the symptoms have reduced, I’ve slowly began to up my mileage again but keeping the distances per run up to 10k max.
Is this wise? I don’t feel pain, some runs are just uncomfortable.
Should I risk going longer?
I’ve got the Chicago marathon booked for October and I really don’t want to jeopardise that.
I found that it could come back now and again despite regular release with a tennis ball. But then I realised it was partly due to sitting in a slouchy chair for too long, looking at the internet. So now I just look at STW all day but on a different chair, and that seems to have fixed it!!
YMMV of course but it's possible the problem is something like that - what sort of job do you do? RSI type injuries are quite easy to pick up
Also I found lying on my back and doing pretzels really good for tight legs/back and connected bits and bobs.
I gave up running years ago as I just seemed to be a hobbling wreck all the time - now I just walk a lot. Personally I would do some more gentle massage - I found the inside and outside of the thigh good spots to go for. Sometimes I could track a numb toe up my leg and find a tight area that kind of related to or could be felt in my toe when I pressed it. So I worked on those areas too, gentle massage and tension release
Edit: I'm and idiot and didn't read the last post.
If you can manage 10k I'd say you're far better that me.
@kormoran - I'm a Software Developer so sat down all day with poor posture. I've since made a concious effort to correct that. For some reason I've been sitting at my desk cross-legged for a while. Right leg over left, kind of sat on my left butt cheek. I reckon this could have made my right glute weak over time leading to all of this. The fact I don't stretch enough has just created a perfect storm.
Yeah sitting down all day isn't great. I used to have a driving job which gave me a long term problem in my achilles - it took a while to work out what was causing it but eventually I realised and then changed my seating position. Things got better pretty quick
During lockdown the piriformis played up - sitting on a sofa all day surfing the net of course. Trick is to change your position every so often, don't sit for hours in the same chair doing the same movement over and over. Tricky I know, just need to change habits
