Torn hamstring

[Catrin]

It is apparent we are both in the same club - the Club of D'Nial In the fall of 2011 I had a nasty fall on the mountain bike trail - the only thing fast about that ride was the fall and I snapped my neck - helmet hit my back. After 2 days my neck suddenly expanded to resemble a piss*ed off Gila Monster. Did I go to the doctor? Of course not! It took me a full month - and my neck was still swollen - had a BAD case of whiplash that I am still recovering from...we are indeed related

I don't understand why your doctor was resistant to getting both MRI tests. I know my own doctor is strongly resistant to getting multiple images because of the exposure to the body from whatever technology is used, but that is my doctor. I've had a lot of issues in the same area you have that was related to a strained sartorius. Some of it may have been connected to some minor hip arthritis, but just because it is there doesn't mean that it added to my symptoms.

Hang in there and let us know how things go!

[Yen]

OUCH! Glad that a whiplash was your only injury and it wasn't much worse! Be sure to take good care of that. I had a whiplash injury many years ago when I was rear-ended at a red light by a car that coasted into mine. Of course(!!) I didn't get any treatment, and for years thereafter I had spasms in my neck muscles. I hope you will be fully healed very soon.

LOL - Club of D'Nial. How very true! Not good, considering where it lead us. I just checked out your blog (nice!) and saw you spent many years in front of a computer. So did I, and I believe it was the many years of sitting at the computer which made my muscles weak and lazy, and then they were awakened from that long sleep and expected to take me on long rides and tough hills.

[Catrin]

.... I just checked out your blog (nice!) and saw you spent many years in front of a computer. So did I, and I believe it was the many years of sitting at the computer which made my muscles weak and lazy, and then they were awakened from that long sleep and expected to take me on long rides and tough hills.

I was told that it was very fortunate that I was wearing my mtb helmet rather than my other helmet. It has more material in the back and stopped my head before my OTHER helmet would have - chances are I wouldn't have been able to wait a month to see a doctor otherwise but thankfully that isn't not what happened As it was I had major neurological symptoms that eventually let to injections to take down the inflammation causing them. I am thankful!

I do think you nailed it in one. THIS is the challenge at starting the fitness journey later in life - this is where I think my initial over-use injuries/etc were from.

[Yen]

I was told that it was very fortunate that I was wearing my mtb helmet rather than my other helmet. It has more material in the back and stopped my head before my OTHER helmet would have - chances are I wouldn't have been able to wait a month to see a doctor otherwise but thankfully that isn't not what happened As it was I had major neurological symptoms that eventually let to injections to take down the inflammation causing them. I am thankful!

I do think you nailed it in one. THIS is the challenge at starting the fitness journey later in life - this is where I think my initial over-use injuries/etc were from.

WOW - scary! Good to know about that helmet. Several members of our group have cracked their helmets in simple falls, but had a concussion that the doctor said might have been far worse had the helmet not been worn. Just a simple bump of the head can lead to a fatal injury -- case in point is Liam Neeson's late wife (actress Natasha Richardson) who fell on snow during a ski lesson and died a few days later. We should all learn from that.

We could write a blog on these lessons learned, couldn't we?!?

[Catrin]

...We could write a blog on these lessons learned, couldn't we?!?

Yes, I think we could