PT Question

[VeloVT]

Thanks everybody.

Zen, thanks for the file. Knot, thanks for the info and I'll try sitting cross-legged.

When I was (much) younger, I took ballet for like 12 years (pointe shoes and all), and I actually had decent turnout then... I know I don't now, because every once in a while I'll try an attitude position (leg lifted to 90 deg front or rear, foot pointed, leg turned out) and it just looks ridiculous -- my knee is practically pointed towards the ceiling (or floor, if it's rear). Still it's strange that with a dance background, I should get internal rotator tightness... seems like it must be something **new** I'm doing now (like running or cycling, or not stretching ). I also have noticed that my lower back has tightened up hugely in the past ten years. I used to be able to do a stretch we called the lion -- lie on your tummy, touch your toes to your head -- I can't come anywhere close anymore -- and I used to be able to do that part of the barre stretch where you grab the knee of your elevated leg and extend the leg so it's perpendicular to the floor, with torso still lifted. Not a chance I could get close now... (Come to think of it, maybe that's because of my hip flexors?). Every time I see a PT though, they do always comment on my bizarrely flexible hamstrings... that may be genetic and not due to dance I guess.

Maybe I'm just getting old .

Starfish, I have had IT band problems -- affecting my knee, not my hip -- in the past as well. Cycling has never been a problem for me, but I had a terrible bout from running a few years ago (could barely make it up and down steps for a few weeks), and now and then if I ramp up my running mileage too quickly I'll get twinges.