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Any help what this can be: I have pain in my left buttock where it meets the top of my leg. It almost feels within the joint. I first noticed it when sprinting and it has got progressively worse. It doesn’t hurt when doing hamstring curls/lunges etc in the gym but is very painful when sprinting. It aches when I sit down and the stretch that I find very difficult and painful is when I place my leg out in front of me at right angles, bend the knee and then then lean forwards. I’m usually very good at diagnosing what my body is telling me but this is getting very frustrating and painful. I have no back pain nor pain down the leg and have been taking anti-inflammatorys but they do not seem to be helping. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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    Hi there, as you can see from the replies, there are numerous possibilities as to what’s causing the pain. I would doubt impingement of the sciatic nerve – it would be reasonable to assume you would have numbness, pins and needles or referral or some kind of pain other than localised pain. to resolve the problem, you need to ask yourself a couple of questions – you said you noticed pain when sprinting – what exactly – was your pattern of training exactly the same as every other training session, have you increased intensity, frequency, change gym training, increased static stretching, new spikes, old injuries reoccuring, have you returned from injury, or been ill – the point is has anything changed to create an injury? It could be that pain and stretch receptors in the glute/hamstring region have moved their ‘perameters’, calf strain may have created tension further up the leg, foot biomenchanics may have been subtly altered. Is your stride length/pattern altered? My clinical experience with sprinters’ hamstring injury suggests the need to reset muscle spindles and tendon organs through MET treatments and Active Isolated Stretching techniques, proprioceptive re-education etc. So here’s the thing – treatment on a sprinter should be different to treatment suitable for marathon runners – make sure you get good diagnosis and treatment or this problem will not go away. Hope this helps.

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    That sounds like what I had. My SI joint was locking up and causing a leg-length discrepancy. It also caused piriformis syndrome, which is what that buttock pain sounds like to me. I thought the SI joint dysfunction was the source of the piriformis problem, but have since learned that it all stemmed from a dropped arch on my right foot, which was causing my right leg to turn in. That was then knocking my joint out of alignment and locking it up.
    I do remember, though, that the piriformis flareup really hurt my butt, especially while sitting.
    Good luck!

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    Thanks Ronnie. Pain only seems to be on the left hand side of my body, would this still be consistant with a pinched nerve? I recently had a sports massage and was told my pelvis was tilted and one leg therefore appeared longer than the other. They manipulated it and got me more or less back into alignment however wondered if this was a cause or a symptom of my injury. Have made appointment with a physio very soon so will await their opinion.
    Hopefully won’t advise rest, I hate not training!!!

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    You could have pinched your sciatic nerve.

    Lower back injuries like that sometimes refer to the buttock.

    I had the same problem. See a good sports medicine practitioner. Physio can help. Perhaps even a good osteopath. Plenty of rest for starters.

    Hope it helps.

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