Hi Ed, been a while - hope all is well and you're keeping well (and warm!).
Interesting turn of events... I have a 'labral tear caused by cam type hip impingement' in the left hip - just wondering if you'd had any experience with this and runners?
Quick back story: I'd been having some great training towards a sub-2:35 London Marathon and then started to get groin pain about 2 months before race day. I reduced the training and 'managed it' pretty successfully (in my 21k session 2 weeks before race day I was feeling brilliant bopping along at 3:40/km ~140bpm). Unfortunately, I had a bad day at London and ended up dropping out at 32k (I had bug, HR was just way too high for the effort, probably would have come in around 2:40-42). Planned to do another Marathon a few weeks later but after a few days post-race rest, the hip really tightened up to the point I couldn't run at all. Saw various consultants/physio's etc. and an MRI Arthrogram confirmed the (small) labral tear last week.
So now I'm faced with the surgery or no surgery question (hip arthroscopy to repair the labral tear and re-shape the femoral head so it doesn't get re-torn). It's an 8 week wait for surgery so I've booked it and plan to do some extremely diligent Physio/PT over the 8 weeks (with a physio familiar with my issue). If I start feeling improvement I'll cancel the surgery... but I'm not hopeful given I've spent the last 7 weeks not running at all (or biking - that hurts too unfort) and there has been almost no improvement. If I do have the surgery it's a 12 week recovery/rehab process so a big time investment (although I'm ok with that - good to rest the heart a bit and re-set the muscles for my 'autumn' racing years ).
Jamie
Interesting turn of events... I have a 'labral tear caused by cam type hip impingement' in the left hip - just wondering if you'd had any experience with this and runners?
Quick back story: I'd been having some great training towards a sub-2:35 London Marathon and then started to get groin pain about 2 months before race day. I reduced the training and 'managed it' pretty successfully (in my 21k session 2 weeks before race day I was feeling brilliant bopping along at 3:40/km ~140bpm). Unfortunately, I had a bad day at London and ended up dropping out at 32k (I had bug, HR was just way too high for the effort, probably would have come in around 2:40-42). Planned to do another Marathon a few weeks later but after a few days post-race rest, the hip really tightened up to the point I couldn't run at all. Saw various consultants/physio's etc. and an MRI Arthrogram confirmed the (small) labral tear last week.
So now I'm faced with the surgery or no surgery question (hip arthroscopy to repair the labral tear and re-shape the femoral head so it doesn't get re-torn). It's an 8 week wait for surgery so I've booked it and plan to do some extremely diligent Physio/PT over the 8 weeks (with a physio familiar with my issue). If I start feeling improvement I'll cancel the surgery... but I'm not hopeful given I've spent the last 7 weeks not running at all (or biking - that hurts too unfort) and there has been almost no improvement. If I do have the surgery it's a 12 week recovery/rehab process so a big time investment (although I'm ok with that - good to rest the heart a bit and re-set the muscles for my 'autumn' racing years ).
Jamie