About a year ago I had to run away from a dangerous person who was threatening me on the street. I have never run so fast in my life. Being a non-runner, I subsequently tore my groin muscles and couldn't walk comfortably for about a week afterwards. During this time, while I was doing my usual daily stretches my groin muscles went into spasm. I was doing a side split stretch, a stretch I've been doing for 20 years(I did a lot of ballet in my youth). Magnesium baths initially helped but became of no effect after a few weeks.
Two months later, as I was picking up a heavy bag the muscles in the area of my diaphram went into spasm. After this happened I was not able to pick up anything due to the pain and had to move back to my parents' house. Physiotherapy only worsened my condition. I've found the only therapy that has helped so far is feldenkrais. I've been seeing a practitioner now for 6 months. I am now able to pick up things again. She's happy with my progress but it's a slow slog.
Over the year I was wearing a pair of old nike airs which I had to tie onto my feet fairly tightly to prevent the heels from slipping. I was getting pins and needles in the soles of my feet so I changed to Lems primal 2 runners. I found it difficult walking in these shoes and had to slow down my walk as I'm not used to thin flexible soles. Because of my pelvic spasm, as my feet move from heel to toe it feels like I'm walking over a hill with every step I take. During my ballet years I had a lot of ball of the foot pain and pain in the tendons under my knees. I feel my current foot problem stems from this as at the moment I also have a lot of stiffness under my knees. As a dancer I also struggled with short(tight??) achilles.
After wearing the Lems for a few weeks I began to get pain in my right foot between the third and fourth metatartsals. I had to stop walking due to the worsening pain. My therapist told me I had a morton's neuroma. So I've been limping around for about 2 months now but it is healing. I think the Lems shoes were too short for my feet so I had to order the next size up. A physio friend advised me not to wear Lems. She says this would place too much stress on my feet as they will have to compensate for the lack of movement in my spasmed pelvis. She advised me to wear shoes with thick padded soles that are not too flexible. I don't see how I can heal if I don't let my body move the way it was intended to.
My therapist has not told me this, but I suspect all these problems with my body are due to my mortons toes and the stress put on my feet from dancing in pointe all those years ago. My doctor mentioned that my hyperflexibility(excluding my achilles!!!) could also play some part. Some years ago I suddenly developed disabling weakness in my wrists. I was not able to carry the shopping bags and then I was not able to manouver the steering wheel of my car. Around the same time my dentist told me I had lost a third of bone in my jaw bone from comparing my dental x-ray to my x-ray from about 10 years ago. So I started taking vitamin D and hydroxyapatite which helped but not completely. I have a slipped lunate bone in my right wrist after picking up a heavy bag of cat litter. My left index finger is permanently twisted to the left after I was digging the soil with a heavy garden pick. So I'm also wondering if I have some kind of connective tissue disorder which is causing spasm. I have questioned several doctors about these injuries but they don't think they're serious enough for specialist referral.
My apologies for the long and winding spiel but I would love to hear your views/suggestions please!
Two months later, as I was picking up a heavy bag the muscles in the area of my diaphram went into spasm. After this happened I was not able to pick up anything due to the pain and had to move back to my parents' house. Physiotherapy only worsened my condition. I've found the only therapy that has helped so far is feldenkrais. I've been seeing a practitioner now for 6 months. I am now able to pick up things again. She's happy with my progress but it's a slow slog.
Over the year I was wearing a pair of old nike airs which I had to tie onto my feet fairly tightly to prevent the heels from slipping. I was getting pins and needles in the soles of my feet so I changed to Lems primal 2 runners. I found it difficult walking in these shoes and had to slow down my walk as I'm not used to thin flexible soles. Because of my pelvic spasm, as my feet move from heel to toe it feels like I'm walking over a hill with every step I take. During my ballet years I had a lot of ball of the foot pain and pain in the tendons under my knees. I feel my current foot problem stems from this as at the moment I also have a lot of stiffness under my knees. As a dancer I also struggled with short(tight??) achilles.
After wearing the Lems for a few weeks I began to get pain in my right foot between the third and fourth metatartsals. I had to stop walking due to the worsening pain. My therapist told me I had a morton's neuroma. So I've been limping around for about 2 months now but it is healing. I think the Lems shoes were too short for my feet so I had to order the next size up. A physio friend advised me not to wear Lems. She says this would place too much stress on my feet as they will have to compensate for the lack of movement in my spasmed pelvis. She advised me to wear shoes with thick padded soles that are not too flexible. I don't see how I can heal if I don't let my body move the way it was intended to.
My therapist has not told me this, but I suspect all these problems with my body are due to my mortons toes and the stress put on my feet from dancing in pointe all those years ago. My doctor mentioned that my hyperflexibility(excluding my achilles!!!) could also play some part. Some years ago I suddenly developed disabling weakness in my wrists. I was not able to carry the shopping bags and then I was not able to manouver the steering wheel of my car. Around the same time my dentist told me I had lost a third of bone in my jaw bone from comparing my dental x-ray to my x-ray from about 10 years ago. So I started taking vitamin D and hydroxyapatite which helped but not completely. I have a slipped lunate bone in my right wrist after picking up a heavy bag of cat litter. My left index finger is permanently twisted to the left after I was digging the soil with a heavy garden pick. So I'm also wondering if I have some kind of connective tissue disorder which is causing spasm. I have questioned several doctors about these injuries but they don't think they're serious enough for specialist referral.
My apologies for the long and winding spiel but I would love to hear your views/suggestions please!