I have never been an athlete, but I enjoy going to the gym. A few years ago, because I didn’t have the time to go the gym, I decided to do my workouts at home. I tried different websites and found one I really liked. I started doing HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) almost every day. After doing this for a year and a half, I hurt my lower back and hip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That morning, I woke up like I always did, at 5:30 am and started my workout. During cool down, I did some yoga poses (which I know, I did yoga for 3 years) and during a back bend, something did not feel right with my right hip. I modified it and did not give it a second thought. The following day, my right butt hurt, but I thought it was just muscular and skipped my workout in order to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The following morning, in the middle of my workout, my lower back started to hurt, so eased up, I tried to modified the moves, but the pain just kept getting worse and worse. I finished the workout, thinking I must have pulled a muscle, but by the end of the day, I was laying on my back crying in pain. Laying on my stomach felt like my back was breaking in two. I had this feeling, almost electric, that would go from my lower back, to my right butt, and move down my right leg. I now know it was my sciatic nerve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My doctor could not see me until the following week. I thought I could wait, but the pain was so intense, I ended up going to a chiropractor. She fixed me and made the pain bearable. She explained that my right hip had rotated, but did not provide any exercise that I could do. The following week, the doctor gave me some muscle relaxers and told me it would go away in a few days. Well, it didn’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After that, I started going to a physical therapy clinic that provided exercises, which I did with them 3 times a week, for 6 weeks, unsupervised. I truly believe this made my injury even worse. It wasn’t until I talked to my sisters that I realized this is NOT how PT should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I found a different PT, she does cranial sacral therapy, and added massage therapy, and chiropractor visits. I did this for 5-6 months. Until I found Katy Bowman and Heidi Jones. I’ve been doing their exercises for 5 months now. I have not had the necessity to go to any therapist nor chiropractor and my pain level is 0, sometimes it goes up to 1-2, but it is not constant anymore and I am able to exercise daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UPDATE: I tried to do a yoga class and it was too much for my body… my hip came out of place and I started recovery all over again… I am going slower now. I am doing a lot of foot and hip strengthening and I am back to PT and massage therapy… one day at a time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have never been an athlete, but I enjoy going to the gym. A few years ago, because I didn’t have the time to go the gym, I decided to do my workouts at home. I tried different websites and found one I really liked. I started doing HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) almost every<\/p>\n