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leg abductor tear (groin)

Mike145

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I have chronic pain on the inside of my right leg, closer to the groin than the knee. The MRI showed a tear with significant scar tissue build up. I sustained this injury by doing a combination of squats, wind sprints and hanging leg raises. There was no single moment where I felt the tear, the pain gradually developed. I have tried to do physical therapy several times, but this just seems to retear the scar-tissue. Surgery has been suggested, but I was told that if I get surgery done it will never be as strong as it once was. Does anyone have any expereince with this sort of injury? I have gotten an ultrasound and it is not a hernia.

Thanks guys.

"If pain is the price I must pay for size than feel free to torture me."
 
Sounds painful you might want to try the medical issues forum. GL
 
Bump. That's sort of an odd injury? But you might want to try a different forum for this one. Unless your question involves AAS for some type of thereapy or recovery/repair?
 
Ok your in luck as i'm good to answer this type of question. First off your gonna hate to hear it but rest. You have to otherwise you'll just aggrevate it until you need an operation. By rest i mean two weeks to a month minimum. I'll repeapt that so it sinks in and you don't dismiss it, no squats, no lunges, no hanging leg raises, nada for two-weeks to a month. Not even runs or walks on a treadmill. Let it repair. Ice it, use ibruprofen, get rid of excess fluids. If your overdoing it the tissue will grow back matted rather than in an elongated fashion, don't stop eating clean, just give your body a chance to repair. Swimming is prob fine, no breast stroke. If it's been gradual and progrssive it means you haven't let it rest.

Right assuming you have been good and rested, buy your self some lycra or neoprene shorts. Long enough to reach the knee at least. Wear them under training bottoms I want you to get heat to the area. Start with a mixture of cardio, start with the concept 2 rower if you can for 5-10 mins, then walking on a treadmill, building the speed to about 7-8km/hr. On average that is a pretty uncomfortable speed to be walking at. Do not try to jog or increase the speed to walk without correct posture. It should feel uncomfortable, particularly in the shins it's meant to. Start with intervals until your able to maintain posture without major discomfort at that speed. Do this for 10-15 mins. You should be pretty hot by now, if there is aslideboard available do a good 5-10 mins on that too. Now go straight onto some bodyweight lunges. They must be bodyweight, don't even consider adding weighs. First set keep it short, emphasis on the quads, then gradually lengthen it takeing it to the glutes and the furter so it's pretty much hitting the hamstrings, hip flexors and adductors. These movements should be very slowly lowered and without bouncing. The front foot should always remain in front of the leading knee. In between sets add some good mornings without weight and lay on your back and slowly with a controlled fashion open and close your legs. Open as wide as possible do not drop the legs forward, they should return together with your body bent at a 90 degree angle. Finish off with some bodyweight side lunges, keep the bent leg's foot in front of its knee, slowly deepen the stretch by pushing the knee outward with your elbow. After this do some decent and controlled stretches about the groin area. DO NOT BOUNCE.

What are you doing here? your warming up thouroughly, the lycra prevents the heat from escaping and keeps the internal temp above the critical 32 degrees required. The moves contain a lot of controlld eccentric movements about the groin area, and should result in controlled micro tears about the scar tissue. With sufficient quality rest and nutrition in between the scar tissue can be safely broken down and quality new tissue can replace it, Adding ice and massage won't harm the process. Stay off the roids, as roids and flexibilty don't particularly go hand in hand as you'll be repairing and adding new tissue faster than breaking down the old scar tissue. It will just get messy, and by the sounds of it your in a pickle anyway.

I now i'm gonna repeat myself but i could almost bet you won't refrain from aggrevating it further instead of resting. REST, REST, REST first. Does this work? Yes, How do I know? Did the exact same thing myself after spending time away from tumbling and wondered if I could still do box splits. You wanna see the size of the bruise I had, from my groin to about 2 inches off my knee. Very silly, spent about three months correcting it. Well 4 weeks rest 2 months to get past the pain and get box splits back.

Either way good luck! A. :chomp:

One other thing, from the bruising and the obvious immediate pain, at a guess i'd say my injury was a more surface injury, although it looked horrendous..either way if yours runs deeper take care when lowering yourself into anything like the above as you prob won't have the visual reference that i had when overdoing it.
 
Ah bollocks, just realised you wrote abductor and not adductor. Well in that case similar prinicple, but a different exercise instead of laying down and spillting the legs. The one to go for i'd recommend is the glute squeeze and lift. Lay on the floor with you legs bent at the kness as if you were about to do a sit up, raise the ass off the ground and squeeze at the top tightly. Gently lower and repeat several times (greater than 10) the keep the ass raised and squeezed open and shut the knees, repeat this a few times and superset with two strtches. The first while laying on your back raise one leg bent at the knee, turn that leg in toward you and raise the other leg and pull it back behingd the knee so it pulls into the anle of the turned leg. There should be a distinct stretch of the abductor, at the top of the hamstring and the gutle in the bent and turned leg. Hold for a while (it should feel good after the ass raises) Swap sides then sit up with the legs out in front. bend one leg at the knee and cross the foot over the knee of the other leg. Pull the bent legs knee from the outward in to stretch the glute and the abductor. If your supple enough try and bend the straight leg about the foot of the already bent leg, it will deppen the stretch significantly. Err I hope thats clear, sorry man it's a bit difficult to explain, but I think i've done an ok job. Again good luck!
 
Thanks so much for taking the time to go through all of that with me. It was very helpful. I will rest the leg as suggested and then begin to perform those exercises. Any idea where I can get lycra or neoprene shorts? Sports Authority? Or a biking store perhaps?

Thank again.
 
For Lycra or neoprene shorts, try don joy sports rehab out of Carlsbad California.

If none of the above works, go for the surgical option.

I have a torn biceps tendon in my left arm, tried all sorts of rehab, etc,

result is it is gone for good now.

I also lost my Lateral lower left quad in a skiing accident, waited too long for surgery and it is now gone for good.
 
For the Lycra use the Under Armour stuff, failing that as it is pricy for what is essentially just lycra and coolmax with a thermal layer go to a running shop and buy some asics winter tights. Go thermal whatever as it retains more heat. As always surgery should be a final solution and not because your lazy/impatient. You'll end up with more scar tissue because of the surgery and still have to go through the above process (which does work!) anyway to break down the scar tissue and regain flexibility, strength and motorcontrol (when the severed nerve endings have healed). Sorry if the typing is sloppy i'm just being brief, but I hold a degree and masters in sports engineering from a very well known uni and have worked with a lot of elite athletes/dancers as well as being one myself.
 
Get the surgery. All that other stuff will make it feel better but eventually you will push it and re-injure it unless a doc goes in there and cleans it up. When you get done with the surgery take precautions so you dont tear the muscle again ( i.e always warm up properly, stretch until you are very flexible, listen to your body if you feel pain ).
 
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