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2 years of hip and knee pain not solved through 4 surgeries

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olle95005
olle95005

Greetings from Sweden!

I found this forum when I was searching for answers, as many others likely did.

BACKGROUND: When I was young I was always into martial arts and was very flexible. I also played a lot of tennis and I never experienced any symptoms at this age (10-15 years old).

When I was 18~ (I am 22 today) I started training martial arts again and was very excited to get back into it. This excitement was killed early due to the fact that every kick and motion "sideways", (for example, roundhouse kicks, side splits) hurt deep into my hips on both sides, kind of where the hip joint was, and in my lateral area in my knees. I was able to push myself through the pain and become temporarily more flexible but the next day I would be back to stage 0 and be much more sore and painful in maximum ROM sideways. Do note that "forward and backwards"-motions did not cause me any pain and front splits, kicks was all fine for me. 

I went to several doctors over the course of 2 years which all (obviously) gave me false diagnosis(es) (why I am 22 years old today without having found a solution). I finally found a doctor (well known and praised in the "FAI-Area") who gave me the FAI-diagnosis and he recommended surgery on both sides.

The FAI surgeries did not help my pain and I had another surgery to lengthen my piriformis, which did nothing. A week ago I had surgery to lengthen my IT-band (in the hip, not further down in the leg) since I do have snapping hip, which isn't painful, and since the pain in the knee is lateral the doctor thought it was a clear decision. This hasn't done anything for me either.

Bottom line:

* I have sharp pain in the lateral area of my knees and outside of hips when I "spread my legs" (such as side splits, roundhouse kicks or something basic as standing with feet widely spread and bending to the side while pushing my adductors towards the floor).

* I had surgery for FAI on both sides, surgery for piriformis syndrome on my left side, surgery for my IT-band on my left side ALL DID NOTHING.

My thoughts:

* Is there ANY other muscle/tendon/etc. that could be causing pain during these types of movements in the described areas? Could it be my adductors that's causing this pain?

Any moral help and/or help in regards to how to proceed from here would be much apprechiated, I am going crazy because of this.

Regards,

O

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  • jp66967
    jp66967 olle95005

    Posted

    Which investigations have you had? X-ray of hips?
    • olle95005
      olle95005 jp66967

      Posted

      Thanks for answering,

      I have had all kinds of x-rays, MRI, etc. With different angles and such.

      I have spondylosis in my back, no gliding, which I've been told isn't the cause of this pain.

    • olle95005
      olle95005 jp66967

      Posted

      I don't believe I have been tested for HLA B27+... how is that done? Through blood test? I just know that I have something called Spondylosis (where no gliding, nerve impingement, has occured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondylosis

      I believe it is basically like a fracture in the spine.

    • jp66967
      jp66967 olle95005

      Posted

      Sounds like spondylolisthesis. Can you confirm that with your medical services?
    • olle95005
      olle95005 jp66967

      Posted

      Well, I have that but without any gliding. My doctor said that when there is gliding it's called spondylolisthesis and when there aren't, it's called spondylosis.
    • jp66967
      jp66967 olle95005

      Posted

      Correct.

      I think that your pain, being expressed on both sides with similar (bilateral) leg movements, is most likely in the axial skeleton. This could be caused by the spondylolysis or it could be in the sacro-iliac joints.

    • olle95005
      olle95005 jp66967

      Posted

      Interesting point. I did have many different kind of surgeries on my back to see if there was anything wrong there, but noone said anything. If it is my spondylosis or in my sacro-illiac joints, what can be done?
    • olle95005
      olle95005

      Posted

      Not surgeries.... I meant to say scans.
    • jp66967
      jp66967 olle95005

      Posted

      I suggest that you have a facet block at the level below the spondylolysis with local anaesthetic to see if this relieves your pain. I usually inject cortisone - the "repair hormone" at the same time.
    • olle95005
      olle95005 jp66967

      Posted

      Hmm, okay. I will suggest this to my surgeon. Thank you so much for your input!
  • currychic
    currychic olle95005

    Posted

    Have you had an MRI i had 7 years of hip pain and only an experienced MRI person picked up an impingement in a muscle (dont know the name off hand. ) very painful but i was relieved to find out there was a reason for tje pain and now have a specialist appointment 😊
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