Hip pain?

[Catrin]

I really appreciate the help in thinking this through, it is very helpful!

Oakleaf, those are good points. I have been looking at those charts, and it seems to be clearly located inside my hip joint socket. My coach seems to think that it is possible that something is moving slightly when I go to roll over in the night that shouldn't be. We KNOW that my hips are tight (especially on the opposite side), and while my neck/shoulders are improving I do still have some restriction related to that which impacts my hips and spine on the opposite side of my body from the hip pain. Now I DO get some very light arthritis related pain in my OTHER hip if I sit around too much, but that is very different (and much milder).

I've TRIED to retrain myself to not sleep on that side, but to no avail so far. Oh I can go to sleep on the other side...but I roll over in my sleep. I just can't go to sleep on my back, but I've not yet given up on that. I need to try a smaller pillow between my legs, my current pillow is large enough that my cranky knee complains when I try to use it that way. Perhaps a body pillow might be a good investment for this purpose.

Thankfully I've noticed no correlation between this happening and the days when we have our most intense competition training sessions. If this were related, then it would certainly be happening during the night after having done 200 jerks or long cycles (clean and jerk) just a few hours before because of the weird hip action women are required to do in order to complete the movement. Men have it easier since they don't have b*obs in the way and can bring the kettlebells straight down to land on their chest and then drive the bells straight back up without worrying about harming tissue. Of course, if I wasn't an F cup then that would help, but that is a different matter