hip pain and severe leg pain

Hi Maureen

This all sounds very uncomfortable for you. This yoga is supposed to feel good! So, please would you mind answering some questions for me?

Can you tell me if the pain manifested during class and perhaps even what you were doing? (Perhaps you even remember which poses it happens in.) Or did it just sneak up on you? When did you notice it first: During or after class?

When you say you feel pain in the hip flexors and the hip is it hip flexors on both sides and left hip pain or all on the left side?

Are you in the habit of getting massage? If you have seen any therapist at all what have they said? Often the stock standard reply of teachers can be “you’re just working through something” or “it’s just xxx opening up”. While this could be true, pain that would stop you going to yoga in such a demonstrative way is possibly suggesting something else.

Let’s see!!!

Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂

Hi Maureen

Hope your leg is feeling better. Please go and read Opening Up Your Hamstrings With Hot Yoga and see what happens when you apply this technique.

It is very common for people to strain their legs, hips or lower back by straightening their legs in poses where the legs are better off bent. Read the blog post and come back after you’ve tried that.

Getting one’s forehead to the floor is not actually the aim of that pose. It’s mostly taught in class but the deal is to get a straight back! I look forward to your next post and we’ll see if we need to go further than this (which we may).

Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂