hip / neck pain

[amandas5boys]

I have been T -tapping for 9 months now. I have for the most part been faithful.

I was on a trip carrying lots of heavy luggage back at the end of Sept. I felt a pain in my right hip. I have had it off and no now since then. I have it mostly when I tapp. I had close to two weeks off over the holidays with lots of walking and my hip felt mush better. This week I tapped again and the hip pain came back with vengeance. the pain I am talking about is in the top side portion. I want to continue tapping as I want to get in shape. So I did step away the inches today. Then a pain that I had felt before with step away the inches hit me and reminded me of it. It is in the same hip but more in the front of the hip but only when I am doing the side to side steps.

I also have lots of neck problems and after doing this last Lady bug work out me neck felt like it was out. I was told by my osteopath that my pelvis like to go out causing my neck to go out.

What can or should I do? I want to workout but I don't want to permanently damage something.

[ayj67]

So, does it hurt when you do Hoe Downs?

[ayj67]

If you are hurting, you skip that moves until you can do it again. Yes, come back to it periodically... I skip the side to side step too, not that I have bad hips, but I have bad knees (loose liagment) that can get easily pulled, and the side step gave me iffy feeling. I also skip front and drop lunges at the lunges (that there is only side lunges in Ladybug), but that is not your problem.

Pelvis going out... Maybe you need to concentrate on curling the core and do OIP daily, and make sure when you sit, maintain ribs up lats tight then you won't further let you pelvis muscles out.

You balance the baby on one side of you hip all the time? Don't do that, it will only make things worse, especially the baby is a 40 lbs toddler.

[monica213]

I have been T -tapping for 9 months now. I have for the most part been faithful.

I was on a trip carrying lots of heavy luggage back at the end of Sept. I felt a pain in my right hip. I have had it off and no now since then. I have it mostly when I tapp. I had close to two weeks off over the holidays with lots of walking and my hip felt mush better. This week I tapped again and the hip pain came back with vengeance. the pain I am talking about is in the top side portion. I want to continue tapping as I want to get in shape. So I did step away the inches today. Then a pain that I had felt before with step away the inches hit me and reminded me of it. It is in the same hip but more in the front of the hip but only when I am doing the side to side steps.

I also have lots of neck problems and after doing this last Lady bug work out me neck felt like it was out. I was told by my osteopath that my pelvis like to go out causing my neck to go out.

What can or should I do? I want to workout but I don't want to permanently damage something.

What workouts do you do on a regular basis? Do you have the MORE workout?

[TaraC]

I had a period of achy pain in my right hip/butt and a corresponding pain in my neck, left side. A sports massage told me that lactic acid build up in my glutes was causing this and yes, it was causing my neck issues too.
In the end I had to take some muscles relaxants from my Doctor for a couple of days to fully work it all out.

Maybe MORE, as Michelle has mentioned, would be better for you. Can you do floor exercises or do they irritate your hip too?

Hope your issues work themselves out.

[amandas5boys]

Thanks for all the responses.

It doesn't hurt when I do hoe downs. But it isn't when I am excerpting that hurts me in the top part of my hip. But with the side to side the pain in my leg meet pelvis area starts up after doing them in the first part of side to side. If I stop going side to side it stops. But I am sore there later in the day or the next couple of days.

I do skip the side to side stepping when I start hurting. I like that part though, so I find myself doing it again before I am done. My Husband tells me the pain is in my grow-en.? It is the inside of my leg at my pelvis. When I sit for a bit and then get up I am very stiff. Can barely move. Once I get going it works out.

It could diffenetly be my core. I have had three c-sections and the last one they had to do a T-cut. When they sewed me back up they did it all crooked. So I am lop-sided in the tummy. I don't know what to do about that. Do you think that is what is causing me to go out? I don't carry the baby anymore as he is 5 now.

I don't have the MORE. I have been doing Ladybug. I usually do either all of ladybug standing or first part of lady bug standing and follow it up with on the floor. Before this I was doing mostly basic workout+. What is the difference in the MORE and the rest. I am not sure my husband will be to happy about me ordering any more t tapp as of now. Can I work it out with what I have?

I am not sure about the on the floor. As I do it with the first part of ladybug.

Thanks so much for the help. Any ideas would be great.

[ayj67]

When you do side to side step, are your toes striaght, and you are still using your tuck, no leaning to forward or back, and you still step and the weight is on the outside 3 toes? Straight toes a lot of times kind of like pigeon toes, the outside of your feet is line up on the 90 degree angle, the inside of you feet forms a small triangle.

I also might be you need to do the ladybug move slower, and open up and warm up the groin slower to avoid pulling liagment or muscles at the groin. Do it gentle and slow and don't force it, it take a wide to open up the groin.

In addition, there are a few lymph nodes there, if you current were fighting some infections, there might be some lymph nodes that was swelling. Try to touch where it hurts and see if there is a quarter size swelling there. Did you do any exercise like Diva Dierre that you did one side more and slower than the other? I was hurting like that once when I was not alternating side and the target pop was slower on the first demonstration than the other.

[amandas5boys]

I do go pigeon toed when I do them. I am very continuous about them. I also make sure I am tucking and ribs up. I am not as good at keeping off the big toe but I work hard at it when I notice it down.

The thing is I don't hurt when in the ladybug position, and the inside is not the part that hurts after the lady bug work out. It is the top part of my thigh, meeting the hip.

I wonder if I didn't pull something while carrying all that luggage, and when I exercise aggravate it again? I wonder if I should work through it or let it rest a while and just walk for exercise? Although I know that the inside groin has hurt before traveling when doing the side to side in step away the inches. It is two different hurts on the same side. I am still sore to get up and the last time I did the lady bug was Monday.

I do like slowing down to do the basic part of the t tap. In lady bug it moves a little faster than I like. I like to slow it down and feel the stretch a bit more.

I am also wondering about in the lady bug workout at the beginning of the on the floor, when she is has us sitting and pulling up on the butt bones she says you should feel the stretch in the hamstrings. I don't feel that stretch. What am I doing wrong there? I know I have more questions on the form but I can't think of them until I am doing the workout.

[BlessedMama]

Amanda, LadyBug is an advanced workout. So right now, you may need to back off and slow things down a bit. As for that first part, yeah, it took me awhile to feel it, too! Make sure you are keeping your core tight during ALL of LadyBug. I used to think LB Floor was easier than HTF, until I realized what ab muscle activation meant!

So you don't have Total Workout? Because there's a lot on there that helps with muscle activation with LadyBug, too.

MORE is actually slower with fewer reps and excellent for focusing on form, and MORE Chair has saved me many times when I had issues with my hips! Do you have TappCore 2? SunRay Sit Down TappCore? It's just $10 and well worth it.


But with what you have....I personally would probably not do side to side movements in SATI.

It does sound like your core--I know in Critter Crunch Floor which was filmed at the 2007 Retreat, Teresa shares how a bit extra focus on the tuck and twist from the hip helps "clicking hips" on the floor moves. I would go back to the basics a bit--study Michelle's Curl Your Core info, practice it away from workouts, then maybe revisit Instructional 1. I would hold the plie squat and not turn your feet out more than 11 and 1 on the "clock" so to speak. Also don't have your feet out too far--shoulder width or just outside shoulders. Do just 4 reps of each move and kick out after every move--including between sets of plies and between sides on TTT. Do just one set of HDs and take it a bit slower so you can really focus on that tuck when you lift to the side. If that hurts too much, just drop it for now.


Here are Michelle's great Curl Your Core and shoulder/hip alignment tips:

http://forum.t-tapp.com/showthread.p...889#post740889


Keeping ribs up (shoulders in alignment with hips) will help the neck, too.


HTH!

[ayj67]

I still have problem pin pointing where it hurts. It is not the hip, in general it is on the outside of the pelvis. Top of the hip will be at waist level.

Your DH said it is the groin, you said it is the thigh bone meets the pelvis. So, that is the hip ball joint? Locating in the front, middle leg, jointing the pelvis? How far are you standard feet apart with your straigh toes, between the outside of both feet, was it less than 12 inches or a lot more?

You need to stand on the last 3 toes, and do a correct KLT before you push the knees out from the hip ball joint. If you cannot stand on the last 3 toes consistently, you are not ready for the Ladybug stance, that is big ball joint KLT twist from the big ball joint. I will suggest you to stop the standing portion of the Ladybug and go back to Instructional 1. When you can finally rebuild the flexbility of the knee and the arches, you can go visit not big toes and big ball joint, in the must read section, there is a post called NBY/BBJ, read that and read what Teresa says the progression on last 3 toes to NBT.

Standing hip apart means your hip ball joints and your knee to ankles are in one straight line perpendicular to the floor. You might be standing too far apart and twist your hip ball joints to KLT too soon and too much. Ladybug is advance exercise for a reason, and you really cannot do it until you have done Total (of course you need a month or so with Instructional 2).

You can continue to do the Ladybug floor, but just do it very slow, there is no need to keep up with Teresa, do 2 reps when she does er 8 reps, do it slower if you are still confuse. Do it slow like Matrix or slow motion in Kung Fu movies, you will get good, get better and understand it easier.