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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on July 24, 2009 at 4:43pm

Other than fingers and toes, the only "fracture" I have ever sustained in my life was an avulsion fracture of my right acetabulum. The tendon/muscle pulled a piece of the pelvis off at the point of attachment. I was unable to lift my right leg into a car without using both hands. I went to an orthopod who treated it by putting me on crutches for six weeks. The freaky thing was I was just running and I heard and felt a "pop.". No contact. And this was in high school when a severe cut took all of three days to heal... Ice is almost always the right way to go, but if this still hurts in a week, go see the pros.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on July 24, 2009 at 5:02pm

No worries. High school was a long time ago. At the time, I could walk, but the only thing that permitted me to move my right leg forward was gravity. Pain, coupled with the lack of this particular god-given lever and pulley system precluded abduction of my right leg.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on July 25, 2009 at 1:57am

Fully recovered. I've never had any twinge of recurrence or discomfort. I'm not suggesting you have what I had, but injuries to connective tissues in and around your pelvis are usually treated with rest. Crutches are just a form of extreme rest. Think about it. A professional athlete sustains an injury to their neck, arm, back, knee, shoulder and they have arthroscopic surgery the next day. That same athlete pulls a hamstring and he's out 6-8 weeks. And when they return, everyone worries about how the hamstring's going to respond.

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Permalink Reply by cutifly on July 25, 2009 at 4:01am

The Pelvis Brothers,,,,,

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Permalink Reply by cutifly on July 25, 2009 at 6:42am

It's still there waiting to be agitated or I mean aggravated.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on July 26, 2009 at 12:51pm

Glad you're feeling better. Please disregard my mildly interesting anecdote.

M.A.R.K. said:

Well I feel almost 100 percent better today! How weird.. Even before I went to bed last night it was still giving me problems, and pain still existed. I woke up today with no pain at all. There is the underlying feeling that something happened, and I feel like if I overuse my leg or stretch it the wrong way that it may return. But other then that, all gone. No ice, no heat, no nothin, just a crappy nights sleep.

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