What's has happened to me?!


Question: For dance, I stretch every night. I do the wall stretch (get up against the wall and make a V shape with your legs against it) for 20 minutes, attempt the splits, and repeat. I've been doing this for about 2-3 weeks, now, but suddenly I've been experiencing pain (pardon my french) kind of below my butt. It's like my thigh, but in the back. It's not the inside-facing part of my thigh, but towards the back. When I press it, it hurts. I can walk, but doing things like a high kick and a battement hurts. It has been hurting for about 2-3 days, now. A heating pad isn't really helping. What did I do? Can I dance tomorrow? How to help it? Do I stretch?


Answers: For dance, I stretch every night. I do the wall stretch (get up against the wall and make a V shape with your legs against it) for 20 minutes, attempt the splits, and repeat. I've been doing this for about 2-3 weeks, now, but suddenly I've been experiencing pain (pardon my french) kind of below my butt. It's like my thigh, but in the back. It's not the inside-facing part of my thigh, but towards the back. When I press it, it hurts. I can walk, but doing things like a high kick and a battement hurts. It has been hurting for about 2-3 days, now. A heating pad isn't really helping. What did I do? Can I dance tomorrow? How to help it? Do I stretch?

Sounds like a good ol' fashioned hamstring pull. This website should help: http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/cybert... Be sure to scroll down in the site. There's a middle section of ads and lots more good info below that.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Read there. People already answered your question in the other one, listen to them because there is some good advice in there.

If you're going to be too stubborn to listen to them, then just go see a doctor and say to hell with dancing "tomorrow". Don't wanna worsen anything.

Sounds like you pulled your hamstring. Doesn't seem like to badly if you are getting around. It will heal in one to two weeks, if you don't keep reaggravating it. I would hold off on the dance and stretches until you no longer feel pain.





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