Sore leg tendons?

[Demobilized]

A week ago last wednesday I went to town on my legs. I was hitting the weights harder than I've ever done before and paid for it the next 4 or 5 days. Chronic soreness, barely able to make it down stairs. This soreness was all in my thighs.

But come monday, tuesday of this week I was feeling better, not great, but I was able to sit down without bracing myself . So I figured today, wednesday, I would be in shape to hit them again, hopefully not as hard. I stretced my thighs a little started with some real light weight on leg press.

I go down and I get a horrible sharp pain down the side of my thighs. Not muscle sorness, but what felt like needless up and down the side of my leg. Its not my thigh, but to the left and the right running most of the length of my leg. Stretched them again and same pain. I can left my leg up with weights, like my shin going from bent to straight, but not squat type movements. I can know feel this sharp pain when i go down stairs or bend over.

Any ideas? Lay off the weights for a week, or is this a problem?

Let me know if there is anyting i need to clear up.

[skife]

Inflamed tendon, same thing happend to me after balling.

[lopxtc]

Ive gotten this before after running ... in my case it was acheillies (sp?) tendonities (I cannot spell sorry) and the only thing I could do was to stop running for awhile and change the way I stretch. What you describe sounds similar to what I had although since you were lifting weights I dont know ...

Aaron

A week ago last wednesday I went to town on my legs. I was hitting the weights harder than I've ever done before and paid for it the next 4 or 5 days. Chronic soreness, barely able to make it down stairs. This soreness was all in my thighs.

But come monday, tuesday of this week I was feeling better, not great, but I was able to sit down without bracing myself . So I figured today, wednesday, I would be in shape to hit them again, hopefully not as hard. I stretced my thighs a little started with some real light weight on leg press.

I go down and I get a horrible sharp pain down the side of my thighs. Not muscle sorness, but what felt like needless up and down the side of my leg. Its not my thigh, but to the left and the right running most of the length of my leg. Stretched them again and same pain. I can left my leg up with weights, like my shin going from bent to straight, but not squat type movements. I can know feel this sharp pain when i go down stairs or bend over.

Any ideas? Lay off the weights for a week, or is this a problem?

Let me know if there is anyting i need to clear up.

[Demobilized]

How long should I stop for?

[TDonovan]

Someone on the track team has an injury that sounds a little like this. It runs the entire length of his leg (outside). He said it was his "IT band". He does some excersizes where he lays on the side that is hurting and pulls himself (while pulling up/stretching) across a giant foam cyllinder. Aside from that, I know he jogs, ices, and stretches. You'll have to SLOWLY get back into it.

A tip for next time. Before lifing your legs, it might not be a bad idea to go run a little (1/2 mile) or some flexy drills to get them REALLY warm. Coaches also advise us to wear pants at all times (unless it's above 85-90) until we are about to perform something very fast or intense. So we keep them on a lot unless we're recording our times for ranking.

If you have access to an athletic trainer, they could give you some things to do.

Being hurt sucks... I've got a strained hamstring right now and it has been keeping me out of a lot of meets where I'd have done very well. Good luck getting better man!

[tranman]

Well i'm a kinesiology student, meaning i specialize in exercise and human motion, so hopefully i can help. Where is the pain? Medially or laterally on your legs?

[tranman]

He said it was his "IT band".

IT band refers to Iliotibial band, goes from your ilium "hip" all the way to the tibia (shin). Theres some stretches you can do to help, you could have developed what they call IT band syndrome, i'm not positive, but look it up.

[Demobilized]

Its on the outside of my thighs, running up and down my thigh, right now about 6 hours after doing a small workout the pain is about 6-8 iinches above the knee to 6 inches of so from my hip. It seems like its on the bottom half of my thigh.

Earlie the pain was shottoing up and down my leg, inside and out i think?

[tranman]

http://www.itbs.info/html/what_is_itbs.html

[Demobilized]

Is there any definite way to know if I have an IT problem? Im reading here and it says 1 month easy, and thats a longer than I'd like to stay away from the weight

[tranman]

Talk to your doctor or a physiotherapist, I work in a physio clinic, they'd be able to tell you right away. For now, ice using the RICE method, rest, elevation, ice and compression. Elevation means leg over heart, so you'd have to do it laying down with your legs up on something. Try doing some IT band stretches (they won't hurt you in anyway) even if you dont have ITB syndrome, stretches never hurt. Unless you stretch to the point of tearing something

[Demobilized]

Dang this sucks, could you think of any alternate diagnosis?

[tranman]

Unfortunately, I don't know of any other problems that are associated with the IT band. I'm 95% sure this is what your problem is from the pain and activity you described...talk to your doctor to be 100% sure. ITBS is completely cureable without surgery though. You might to to take some anti-inflammatories too, such as ibuprofen. A normal quad stretch won't stretch the ITB, i'll find some pics of the stretches you should try.

[Demobilized]

Thanks man, I appreciate the help. Glad I caught this before I did further damage.

[tranman]

http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/itband.html

http://www.howtostretch.com/iliotibialstretches.html

Those should be good.