Leg pain

[AndyH]

During open hockey today I went to make a kick save with my right leg, and felt a pop in the back/inside of my thigh. It didn't hurt much then, but as the game went on skating, going up and down ect. started to hurt more. Now after being home for an hour of so, it hurts like hell to walk. Any ideas on what this is?

[bedris]

Looks like you have a bad case of the heevie-jeevies.

[AndyH]

Yeah, probably.
I've never seriously hurt myself before, so I dont know the signs of a tear, or pull or whatever.
I just wanted to make sure these wern't the signs of something bad.

[bedris]

Let me be clear: I have absolutely no clue as to what's ailing you. I just happen to make the mistake of thinking that I'm funny from time to time.

[Dr Dave]

bedris Looks like you have a bad case of the heevie-jeevies.

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This can't be heevie-jeevies. If it was the pain would be in the front of the thigh just above the knee.

[willyjagr]

Question does it hurt in the hip joint ?
If it does you may have ripped a groin area muscle like me.

[Goalie Girl]

Andy - hate to say it but I think I know exactly what you are talking about. A few months ago I was stretching during practice, nothing really out of the ordinary for me, just the splits and all the other stuff I normally do, and all of a sudden I hear this "pop" in the exact same area as you and feel my leg shift. It didn't hurt then, and I didn't really notice it too much for the rest of practice (I figured it was just a joint popping...although it concerned me that I suddenly couldn't stretch as far that way), but afterwards as I was heading for the parking lot, I suddenly noticed that it was hurting pretty badly. I limped around the next few days at school; my dad, who's a doctor, says that it's probably a pulled hamstring (no idea why the "pop" was there though), and after that it felt better, althoguh stiff. I tried going through my normal stretching again at the next practice (a week later), and I couldn't do the splits that way. I still can't, and it's been several months. My dad reccomends repeated stretching (although it just seemed to make it worse in my opinion, hey, he's the doctor). Basically it's healing pretty slowly, and I have not been able to stretch as far that way ever since. It does not affect my skating ability, and although for a few weeks it hurt like heck to stretch that way, it is slowly healing...now it is mainly stiuff, but I can still feel a difference between it and my other leg's muscles. Sorry to ramble, just wanted to let you know.

If you play a high-flexibility game (lots of splits or big stretches in the general direction of the muscle you pulled), your game could be affected a bit. Sorry to ramble....glad to know it's not just me being paranoid either. I'll check with my dad about what to do again tonight, but for now, I'd probably reccomend lots of stretching. LOTS of it. Repeatedly. Whenever you think of it. Hope that helps!

[G-Man]

My dad reccomends repeated stretching (although it just seemed to make it worse in my opinion, hey, he's the doctor).

I recently spoke to a physical therapist about the same thing. I have an old injury that wont go away. He said stretch. I said that makes it worse. He said that I'm probably overdoing it and that I should stretch lightly, not to the point where it hurts.

[Goalie Girl]

Thanx G-Man , now that i think about it my dad said something along similar lines.....darn complicated msucles....