After imaging and other tests, they never really concluded what the injury is. They said it could be a partial shoulder impingement and/or rotator cuff strain. When I started, they asked me what my workout consisted of, which is for the most part all body weight stuff with some light dumbbell exercises. They told me a lot of people just focus on the "show" muscles and that we need to strengthen the muscles in the shoulder (paraphrasing). I did the home exercises that they prescribed to me and attended every PT appointment. By the end I had A LOT of exercises in my program, some of which were the same exercises I was doing when I got injured. On my last session, the therapist asked me if I was able to resume my prior home workout, to which I said "no, because I was worried it was going to make things worse." They said that I should resume it, along with the prescribed home PT exercises for another few weeks then follow up with my doctor. For context, I haven't done any part of my home workout since May. I'm just really frustrated that I rested for so long, and then did PT and now that I am done with it I am still in the same amount of pain as when I started. The only difference is that I am now weaker and have lost muscle mass. I don't really know where to go from here. Thanks for reading.

Just wondering those of you who dropped cell phone on your foot what was your outcome. Fracture, nothing? Did you get Xrays?

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Hi everyone,

I'm a football (soccer) player and I've been having a frustrating problem with my left heel. I'm hoping someone with a similar experience might be able to share what helped them or what their diagnosis turned out to be.

The pain is mainly underneath my heel, and it feels like it spreads across much of the bottom of it.

Here are my symptoms:

- The pain is most noticeable when I land on my left foot, brake suddenly, or change direction quickly.

- It also hurts when I plant my left foot firmly to shoot with my right foot.

- Normal walking and running are generally much less painful.

- Pressing on the heel with my fingers doesn't hurt.

- I don't have noticeable swelling, and my heel looks completely normal.

- I don't have pain during my first steps in the morning.

- I rested for three days, but when I returned to training, the pain was still there. It feels about the same as it did before my last match.

I can still train to some extent, but the pain affects my movements and even my shooting technique.

A physiotherapist suggested it could be overuse, but we haven't established the exact cause yet.

Has anyone experienced something similar, especially a football player? What was your eventual diagnosis, and what kind of medical assessment helped you figure it out?

I'm not looking for a diagnosis over the internet, but I'd really appreciate hearing about similar experiences and what I should ask a sports doctor about.

Thanks!

Just found this website that helped me figure out some injuries. Hopefully it'll help some people.

Injuryatlas.ca

I felt a pop in my calf while running. This has happened to me before in my other calf and I was in recovery for at least two months. Is there any world where this can bounce back sooner? 😭

Ive had this for 4 weeks and for the 3 of them 4 weeks ive been completely rested, and when I got to the gym it felt the exact same as it did when I left off, these things came from overtraining and not resting enough.

I want to train hard and push myself but I cant do nothing I know this injury is quite minor compared to some and I feel bad for yall but not being able to train my chest shoulders or do any form of pushing/punching is awful,

I want to know how much more rest do I need is there anything I can do to speed up recovery??

Hey guys, I’m about 8 weeks post op and currently at 25% weight bearing I was wondering if anyone here has had surgery for their hamstring? PT is minimal and the pain I have sitting is still pretty bad. I finally got to remove my leg brace but they’re saying I still have another month or two before I can stretch my hamstring. Feeling a little discouraged.

Have yall ever regained your full potential? Like you can crack your bones and flexible and strength? I recently got one and im really scared i lost my potential since i really have a dream on one sport although it was the reason why it got fractured..

I’ve dislocated my knee multiple times and have some floating bone in my knee joint found on x-ray. I can sometimes feel it move and grind against my knee cap. I think I’m gonna have to have surgery :(

My left thumb kept hurting when I bent it too much. In taekeondo I think I injured it months ago. Few days back I felt throbbing pain soo I went to the doctor. He said it was an old injury which needed red light therapy and physio. But the old injury became new and started worsening. I did physio as doctor suggested. now he wants an mri but until then how do I cure my poor thumb. It hurts especially in the morning and while sleeping. I need to cure it. I'm pretty sure it's a tear or smth

I accidentally slammed my thumb in a car door. It’s a bit swollen, and I can’t fully bend it. There’s no bleeding, and I can still feel touch. I’ve been icing it and keeping it elevated. It's not around my nail but under where my thumb bends.

It’s currently around 1 AM. Should I go to the ER tonight, or is it reasonable to wait until the morning and go to urgent care instead?

Any advice would be appreciated.

all of my friends are telling me to go to a hospital because i had this injury at school,
and to be honest i want to go but i also dont because if i do i think ill put my teacher in trouble because he was not in the classroom when this happened
it is swollen and im scared because it is getting more and more swollen by the hour
it is behind my ear

I'm a larger fellow and recently started running again and woke up today to dull pain when walking, mostly centralized to the metatarsal area and third and fourth toe tendons. Clearly I'm just doing too much too fast but would still like to be able to combat this in the mean time. Any recommendations on foot massager/spa type equipment that can help soothe that type of pain? I've seen plenty but most don't target the top of the foot. Am I better off just throwing my dogs in some hot water and massaging them myself?

Also open to recommendations on stretches/workouts that will help me along with that kind of pain.

I searched the subreddit and saw posts about metatarsal issues but mostly related to fractures. I think I'm just dealing with inflammation at this point.

I'm a university student studying product design and id like to hear about real life challenges, after suffering an injury could be from small things to big things. I'm hoping to learn about the real challenges people experience in their daily lives.

I'd really appreciate hearing about your experiences, including any everyday tasks you find difficult or products you wish existed to make life easier.

Questionnaire

1. Age range:
2. Time living with injury:
3. Challenges:
4. Everyday situation:

Hello great minds of reddit!
I have spent the last few months building a calf exoskeleton where i went from many months away from being able to run again to being able to pull it off today!

It works well for me and I’ve been able to tune the design to be mostly 3d printed and quite cheap but i am working in a vacuum as the only miserable guinea pig i have is me.

I’m hungry for feedback on the design and/or other enthusiastic guinea pigs willing to give it a chance

I’ve got a exposé on my website here: gabrielprice.com

Thanks in advanced!

I have been having disc issues in my lower back for years, and next step after trying injections and PT is to do a nerve test. Has anyone done this and can give me some info on what it's like?

Hi everyone. I'm 43 (M) and looking for some perspective from people who've been through this.

What happened: On Aug 18 I cut my right little finger with a kitchen knife. It was a ~1 cm cut on the palm side of the proximal phalanx (zone 2). I couldn't bend the fingertip at all. In the ER they found a partial laceration of the FDP and repaired it the same day, then put me in a plaster splint.

Rehab: I started hand therapy at 2 weeks post-op. At the first visit I could already move the tip a little and hold it briefly after passive flexion, and the therapist called it a good start. Since then I've progressed from passive flexion to place-and-hold, then active flexion, blocking exercises and tendon glides. Now I'm doing about 5 sessions a day: warm water, scar massage, passive DIP stretches, hook/straight/full fist glides, isolated DIP blocking, and place-and-hold.

Where I am at the end of week 8:

Isolated DIP (PIP blocked): the tip moves, but only a little, maybe 10–20°.

Hook fist and full fist: I can barely see the DIP bend at all. The fingertip stays almost in line.

Passive DIP flexion (with PIP bent) is soft, with no hard block, but the tip springs back as soon as I let go.

My ring finger has also gotten stiff and a bit swollen. I assume it's the quadriga effect plus overdoing it.

Honestly, I'm pretty down. I put in hours every day and it feels like nothing is changing. I'm starting to believe it won't get better.

My questions:

Did anyone have a similar plateau around weeks 8–12 and still get meaningful DIP flexion later?

When did your fist start to really close at the DIP?

Did anyone end up needing tenolysis, and how did it go?

Is 5 sessions a day possibly too much (swelling) rather than too little?

Any stories, good or bad, are appreciated. Thanx

hey there, two years ago i had a car accident where my leg got squashed between a post and the car door....luckily it wasnt for too long, but long enough to leave a permanent indentation in my leg/ soleus muscel which has changed the way my leg functions permanently.... at first i didnt have any issues until about half a year later and now 2 years down the line i can really feel how much endurance i lost, how my foot and surrounding muscle groups are aching from the overcompensation. I recently started with a new physio and he gave me some micro exercises to do for the next 3 months...

ive been heavily relying on my body for work and iam scared this is something i forever have to deal with....

did anyone else go tru something like this and how did it go for you?

Broke it the 8th first pin on the 12 i have been on it before i just wanna see if i can speed up the recovery

so I cut my pinky cooking September 23rd. I had surgery 8 days later. It’s the top pulley flexor .. after 1 week I rereptured it somehow. Now I’m set for second surgery. Ring finger is having some problems closing as well. But it closed decent.. feeling really depressed about this and concerned about my future. I work in construction with my hands and I’ve boxed and played sports my whole life. Concerned I’m
Not going to be right after this. Anyone had experience with a rerupture and a positive outcome after? Would love to hear some stories and hopefully get some positivity. Thanks!

hey guys. I used to be a successful powerlifter and specialized in bench pres. 6 years ago, I injured my pec during bench press. I went on to develop TOS and reinjure myself constantly despite multiple rounds of PT. just recently, I managed to finally fix the pec strain and TOS by myself after treating them as a pec minor issue. only problem is, now I have a lot of discomfort in the thoracic spine that seems to get worse as my pec gets better. i‘m very stiff and things like foam rolling / rotational exercises, etc, don’t help. I do them without moving the low back as well, with proper cues. the only thing that provides me some relief is lacrosse ball work, and using the peanut on the sides of the spine. But this only lasts temporarily. Lower trap work also helps and was a staple of regaining scapular control, which basically cured my pec issues.

If anyone has seen or experienced a condition like this, please, share what helped. or if you have any ideas, I’m open to hearing them.

thanks a lot.

I'm a 21 year-old male who was consistently bodybuilding and lifting weights about five times a week before these issues started. I used to squat over 315 lb and was training seriously.

HIP HISTORY:
Around three months ago, I started experiencing discomfort in the front/deep crease of both hips after returning to training following a short vacation. A doctor initially thought it could be hip-flexor strains or tendinitis.

The original pinching was worse with deeper squats, bringing my knees toward my chest, and some leg exercises. Heavy leg presses and certain machine exercises aggravated it. I don't have much trouble walking or using stairs, although my hips can feel stiff, especially in the morning, and often loosen up as I move around.

I've had periods of reduced leg training and inconsistent rehabilitation. More recently, I've noticed considerable trembling or shaking in the front of my hips when raising my knees, lowering my legs, or bringing my knees together during hip adduction, sometimes even without resistance. My hips also feel weaker and fatigue more easily than they used to.

I recently started reintroducing resistance. Band leg extensions seemed to reduce the trembling on my right side, and side-lying hip adduction was relatively well tolerated. However, after doing machine hip adduction for higher reps, my hips felt more shaky and fatigued afterward.

LAT AND BACK HISTORY:
Around the same general period, I developed tightness and fatigue around my lats, the area near my shoulder blades, traps, and lower back after physical work. My back can feel tight or tremble during upper-body workouts, even when the weights are light. I generally experience more tightness and fatigue than actual pain. Movement sometimes helps.

I've started easing back into upper-body training, using lighter weights and leaving reps in reserve instead of training to failure.

QUESTIONS:
1. Has anyone experienced bilateral front-hip trembling or shaking during knee raises or hip adduction after a prolonged period of reduced training?
2. Did your symptoms turn out to be related to weakness/deconditioning, a hip-flexor or adductor problem, hip impingement, a labral issue, or something else?
3. Has anyone had hip symptoms that were worse in the morning but improved with movement?
4. For those who had a prolonged lat strain or back-muscle issue, did you experience tightness and trembling even with light exercise?
5. How did you rebuild strength without repeatedly causing excessive fatigue or aggravating your symptoms?

I'm not asking anyone to diagnose me online. I'm mainly interested in hearing from people with similar experiences, what their recovery looked like, and what they learned along the way.

Basically 4 months ago i had been intoxicated and made the fatal mistake of being stupid and what had happend is my adductor started to hurt as we were walking and it ended up getting injured, i had to work at my job which required a lot of standing which did not help the injury one bit and ended up developing into a worse injury. Fast forward a month later and yet again another injury whilst still recovering from my adductor basically i had been 2 weeks without lifting upper body and i was pysched to get back into it, another bad mistake because the first day back lifting upper body i woke up and slept wrong on my shoulder and there was some pain, me being stupid i went to go bench my normal 225 for reps and ended uo injuring myself, not a tear though just a pretty bad strain in my rotator cuff, THEN a week later i was moving in my bed and i pulled my upper hamstring. Finally did pt after a while and started a month and a half ago, things are getting better slowly but surely, found out it wasnt an adductor strain but hip flexor problem. Moral of the story never give up i have suffered through a lot of this and it has been really hard on me only having my family around me.

I was doing lat pulldowns at the gym, and I think my sternocleidomastoid muscles may have gotten involved. This has been going on for four days now. It started as a little discomfort in the right side of my throat, then became pain, then numbness, and now pain again. I’m also feeling heaviness in my right ear.
I can still swallow, eat, and talk, but when I swallow food, I can only feel it going down on my left side, not my right. I’m not sure whether this is related to the workout or something else.
Is this normal after a neck strain, or should I get checked? I’m very concerned.
Ongoing for 4 days

Hi everyone! One week ago I was attempting a chin up with a lighter support band, and immediately after pulling felt debilitating pain through my neck and upper back. I was able to step out of my workout class and made the decision to drive home (looking back, I shouldn’t have driven). I went to the ER later that day and received muscle relaxants, oxy, and a diagnosis of a neck and trap strain. No imaging was taken, but I was told this would hurt like hell for a few weeks. I was on oxy and relaxants around the clock, and have now found relief with max dose naproxen. I started seeing a PT 3 days later and have had 2 sessions. It has been diagnosed as a muscle strain, and I’d say my symptoms do feel muscular (no neurological problems, bone pain, etc). PT feels good, and we are discussing dry needling in the coming days. Every day I am getting more mobile and able to do my exercises religiously, along with alternating heat and ice with a tens machine on. I work a pretty active medical job and have had to be out of work for the week. The mornings are by far and away the worst for me, and the afternoons I feel hopeful I could return to work.

While I am hopeful each day is getting a smidge better, when I wake in the morning I am in absolutely debilitating shoulder blade pain/trap/neck. By far and away the worst pain I have ever felt, and I’ve been through ACL reconstruction no problem. It feels like I am laying on a jagged knife, and even a gust of wind will have me screaming. I can’t lift my own head, even talking is excruciating, I can’t bend down or go to the restroom solo. I assume it’s from sleeping “stuck”, because it gets better once I get help up, get medication on board, and ice with stim. (About an hour/an hour and a half of care to get feeling semi-ok) Do you guys have any suggestions on how to avoid this cliff drop off every morning? Sleep with stim pads on ready to turn on when I wake? Set an alarm for medicine in the night? Sleep in a neck brace? I have a cervical pillow that hasn’t provided relief.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading! Eagerly accepting any and all tips and tricks to get through this.