Hip pain and what caused the damage

[rosereedy]

Back in early March (few days before a competition) I fell skating out of a double sal.  My hip hurt really bad but thought I pulled a muscle.  I took meds, iced, heat, etc.  It was KILLING me during practice ice at this competition and really messed up my performance.  Camels hurts, sit change sit hurt, everything.  Took some time off and it only helped a little bit only to get back to that painful point again.  I knew something was bad wrong.  I finally caved a week ago and went to the doctor.  I told them my symptoms of hip clicking, gets stuck sometimes, and the deep sharp pain.  I was immediately sent to have a contrast MRI and saw on my sheet they wanted "STAT results".  I had them back within an hour.  I met with my doctor again that said I had a tear but from the MRI she couldn't exactly tell what but thought it was a muscle.  Sent me immediately to the hip specialist office (this is a sports medicine office and you have to see a general practitioner first before going to the special docs).  I have a ligamentum tere tear that now has a flap causing the pain and clicking and sticking with a very minor labral tear that appears to be healing on its own.  Unless I have surgery, there is no healing ligament.  Turns out the majority cause of this particular injury is hip dislocation.  He said what likely happened is when I fell, my hip dislocated for a split second and the popped back in which tore the tissues.  He said that the soreness I had for a few days was the tenderness from the dislocation.  Made sense.  Here's where it gets worse.  I am 32, been skating most of my teenage and adult life minus time off here and there.  To be so young, he said I have excessive wear and tear on the joint and the start of arthritis.  I have the hip joint (they only looked at my one which is the right hip) and they look like something you would see on a 50-60 year old.  No driving for two weeks and no skating for at least 8 weeks.  But I was retiring the end of this year anyway and likely just won't come back.  So be careful out there y'all and skate safe!

[nicklaszlo]

Ouch!  How much jumping have you been doing for the past 20 years?

[AgnesNitt]

Well, what about ice dance? Or do you already have all your dances?

[rosereedy]

A good bit. I started double sals after skating a year and a half, maybe two years. I have overuse wear since that is the side I spin and take off for jumps. It's just taken a toll on my body.

I don't have many dances but it doesn't interest me. Might do moves or something easy if I come back. Until then, I am just doing non painful stuff. This makes me sad because I love the sport so much.

[jjane45]

(((roseyhebert))) 

[sarahspins]

Ouch!  I hope your recovery goes smoothly.. injury is one of the things I fear the most about ultimately trying for Gold Freeskate since I've already dealt with major injury in the past.  We are the same age and I know skating has been hard on my body, but at the same time, being inactive is actually harder on your joints than using them, so it's a fine line between too much and not enough.

[rosereedy]

Ouch!  I hope your recovery goes smoothly.. injury is one of the things I fear the most about ultimately trying for Gold Freeskate since I've already dealt with major injury in the past.  We are the same age and I know skating has been hard on my body, but at the same time, being inactive is actually harder on your joints than using them, so it's a fine line between too much and not enough.

YES!  Couldn't have said it better.  It's so true.  I hate to see what I am going to be like when I'm old.  Might need to be called "Robo-Rose" since my joints are going to crap.  I have to start taking Glucosamine...awesome.

[Neverdull44]

Todd Eldridge had hip replacement last year.  Landling side.  Excessive wear, and he's early 40's.  Now, he skates again.  Don't known to what extent.

One of our coaches had her hip replaced this year, landing side.  She's in her 30s.  She was back on the ice about 6 weeks later, and said that she had no pain.

I think Kurt Browning spent a year off ice, due to excessive wear on his spine.  The doctor said his spine looked like an elderly man.

Try some yoga.  Look into it for healing issues.