- Jan 8, 2016
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My 12 yr old daughter has been having pain in her drive leg hip area for about 5 weeks. At first we sorta blew it off as just being sore from doing pretty intense lessons working on really driving off that back leg and pulling the knee through. We went to an Airrosti Dr and he said that her muscles and tendons were extremely tight. We went a few times last week, then fast forward to this past weekend at a tournament and it was really giving her a lot of pain.
Long story short, we ended up getting an X-ray(which showed nothing) and an MRI. The MRI showed an Avulsion fracture of the superior iliac spine which is basically the tendons in her back leg pulling pieces of the growth plate in her pelvis away from the bone. It seems this is a common injury in sprinters and soccer players that have fast jerky movements using that muscle/tendon.
Has anybody had any experience with this injury and pitching?
We are going for a second opinion tomorrow, but basically the first doctor told us she will be out for at least 6 weeks. I understand rest and letting it heal, but my bigger concern is when she does go back to pitching, what is going to keep it from happening again? She had really been working hard the last couple months on exploding off the rubber(and I’m guessing ripping her bone off while doing it) and had actually gained about 4 mph in just a couple months. My daughter is pretty upset with the diagnosis as you can imagine being that she will be out for over half the season and not at her best for the remainder of the season when she comes back.
Anybody have experience with this?
Long story short, we ended up getting an X-ray(which showed nothing) and an MRI. The MRI showed an Avulsion fracture of the superior iliac spine which is basically the tendons in her back leg pulling pieces of the growth plate in her pelvis away from the bone. It seems this is a common injury in sprinters and soccer players that have fast jerky movements using that muscle/tendon.
Has anybody had any experience with this injury and pitching?
We are going for a second opinion tomorrow, but basically the first doctor told us she will be out for at least 6 weeks. I understand rest and letting it heal, but my bigger concern is when she does go back to pitching, what is going to keep it from happening again? She had really been working hard the last couple months on exploding off the rubber(and I’m guessing ripping her bone off while doing it) and had actually gained about 4 mph in just a couple months. My daughter is pretty upset with the diagnosis as you can imagine being that she will be out for over half the season and not at her best for the remainder of the season when she comes back.
Anybody have experience with this?