8 Months NSV!
As my bodyspace home page states, I had to stop running because of what I thought was a back injury. I later found out that it’s more of an alignment issue caused by a glute/ab, hip flexor imabalance. I’ve had to rely on the chiro for 8 months now to keep me in alignment. I finally decided that paying a physcial therapist to diagnose the problem would be well worth the money, so I did. She did so within the first hour and was very thorough. She told me the above, that my glutes were weak, and my hip flexors were too strong. They were pulling my hip out of alignment. Happy to add, she gave me the go ahead to start running again! (ran a 5k to prove I could still do it)
I passed on the diagnosis to my PT who began focusing more on my glutes. It’s been 2 months since we began buliding me a bootay (which I’ve NEVER had). Yesterday I needed my weekly adjustment (yes, too often, but until I get stronger, necessary). My chiro for the first time in 8 months did NOT need to adjust my hip!!!
It’s things like these that I have to remember are successes too, not just that damn scale! It’s hard to remember this, but it’s a must in getting to goal.
Don’t forget to focus on the “little things”.
May 27, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Congratulations, I know that feeling, lately my knees are giving me some trouble so I had to give up running one of the races I had programmed to run this year; but as I see it, it will allow me to come back stronger, smarter.
Don’t give up, well done 5 km is just a relaxing distance, enjoy your run.
-Frank Bruce