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[vicarz]

So yesterday I lifted for the first time after my cortisone shot. Results are mixed - it was 8 hours after the shot, and it felt weird. My hip was spasming just a little. I still felt pain, but less of it. I didn't try any big lifts, stopped at 225 or so? 275? I didn't even keep track, but as it hurt I let it go as it's "down week" and I was not supposed to be lifting, but feeling/experimenting. I wish it didn't hurt at all, and am torn because really this AM is 24 hours and I should really experiment to see how I feel.

It was sort of a non-answer: it hurt less, but it hurt. No miracle. No disaster. Non-answers.

I also screwed things up because after being coached by Frankie (a stupidly strong gym guy who competes) who gave me the advice of keeping my feet parallel while twisting out; I've been letting my toes go out a little and more pushing the floor apart sideways. But I guess pain is pain, and the point is...mixed results.

I may try squats today - not to work out, but just to test how I feel. While my labral tear exists, it doesn't mean I don't also have something like (sciatica in the lower spine?) hence the diagnostic shot test. I'm not eager to sit in a MRI and pay all the copays again to find out.

Not labral:
Yesterday we fuffed around with the OP and bench more than squooted, and...I didn't think much of it, but I have to flash back and remember: years ago, I don't recall how many but it was during gymrats eljay heyday, I wanted to increase my "BENCH PRESS." The seemingly absurd advice I go was to do olympic lifts, squats (feet!? Legs?) and I think I started with 5x5 starting strength or something similar. I hurt my dumb ass, and I have never stopped having form problems, but I lifted until I could squoot the unbelievably scary weight of 225. I was never really able to push 225, but I did eventually crawl there and it was so important to me I wanted a friend (Slash actually) to spot me so I could prove it really happened. Now I've recently hit 315 squoot, 405 for 2 DL, my OP is nifty too, but ... I can regularly hit 225 on the bench. That's funny - the bench really didn't move so much as the rest, but I also care less about bench than ever before.

I should note that at some point my goal was to bench 225, and now I can do it with such regularity that I'm looking for the next milestone over my 235. It's great that I am always setting my sights higher, but I think I should take sammore time to enjoy the fact I have reached and passed goals I had in the past.

Comments

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

My weightlifting knowledge is minimal but to speak to Frankie's advice, yes, keep your feet parallel. Use the natural strength of your skeleton. Stack bones on top of bones.

Still confused about the shot. My eyes must have glazed over in an explanatory post some time back. Diagnostic? For something like sciatica? So how will you know if it works and if it works what does that mean? Are you supposed to delineate labral tear pain from sciatica? pain?

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I have to fight to keep my ankles from rolling - it's a battle. I used to be parallel, but then allowed some toe-out specifically to keep good form. I probably need to work on flexibility.

Diagnostic - if my pain vanishes (or is diminished?) then it shows that 100% that's the issue. However it's possible I have a lower back problem that is worse or more the cause than the pelvis.

[anarcha.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit confused - I guess there's different variants of cortisone. When I got mine, I was told to avoid activity for 5-7 days, and then start activity.

Lidocaine is used for diagnostic purposes, but that usually only lasts a few hours.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

He didn't say what mine was. I lifted ok but had no restrictions, He is reportedly one of the 3 best hip ortho specialists in the area (Ochiai), and I got a similar plan from one of the other 3 (Andrew Parker).

He also prescribed some PT to go with it for a couple weeks.