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Perry

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Re: what do doctors really know?
« Reply #60 on: May 31, 2008, 08:14:50 am »
Thanks Perry, problem is that is still fairly significant. I still cannot run what so ever, walking can be painful but I always get a pulling feeling in my ab down to the pubic bone and into the upper thigh. After about a mile, It gets very painful. Sitting is still a problem, causes cramping. If I rotate my foot out, I cannot lift my leg.  Don't you think it should be better than this by now?

Ron, I would think that you would have progressed some by now quite honestly.  One possibility is that the way that the injury has affected you is that the stuff you normally do to get better has chronically aggravated this injury.  I am curious to ask if now that you are doing the PT if you can notice that you are slowly making progress. 

Another thought.  I was always taught to visualize the anatomy.  In your case the psoas starts up at L2 and goes down along the back wall of your lower abdomen and through your groin area to attach to you upper femur. (this is exactly where you have pain)  Even though you bruised in your groin, you could have also strained it higher up, stretched a nerve,etc .  I am curious if the MRI looked at that area, where MDs would say is the origin of the muscle is, and also at that level of the spine.  It would be common to get views in the groin and for them not to look up at L2 - L5 of the spine and track the muscle along its entire course. (Why does this happen? - I think probably because all these great machines have made us lazy thinkers.  9 out of 10 times we look where it hurts and presto - the magic machine tells us what is wrong.)  In cases that don't add up, one has to re-think the entire process, push a different button, try a different theory, come up with a new hypothesis etc.