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cheetah · 02-21-2008, 04:35 PM

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"I suppose the thought could be that it is shifting your center of gravity forward and your compensation is to pull down on your achilles."

I think what you mentioned above may be exactly what they're getting at. The physical therapist said that because of my hip flexors/psoas being tight, it is leading to an anterior tilt in my pelvis, which in turn has caused my left leg to be almost a centimeter longer than the right. Because of the leg length difference, I am putting most of of the stress on my left with running and jumping, and ironically while going through some assessments, I also found that my balance on my left leg (while standing on on a bosu, flat side up, on one leg, while holding my right leg in a quad stretch) is 100% better then on my right leg, even though my left achillies is injured! So it must be true, I must favor my left leg. Don't get me wrong, we are doing some calf stretching, and also iontoferesis (applying a topical steriod to the achillies with some sort of machine to decrease pain and immflamation) but the PT is also 90% focusing on proper stretching techniques of the hip flexors and doing some funky adjustment techniques, which in turn is evening out my leg length. (on an interesting side note: my achillies flared up not from volleyball...one of my individuals...I work with adults with developmental disabilities...threw a vase at me and I tweeked my achillies in an awkward way while trying to avoid getting hit by the flying base back in August...since then my achillies hasn't been the same)

I just hope that they are treating my injury in the proper way...I want to be ready to play beach this season, hopefully in about 2 months. My husband and I are leaving on a carribean cruise in about 2 weeks, and i was hoping to do some sand training while in port, but i guess that will have to wait

Thanks for your two cents...That's great news about your knee. I hope it continues to improve. are you playing in a doubles tourney this weekend? It is a balmly 32 here and Philly and we're expecting a snow storm tommorow

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cheetah Moderator Status: Offline Posts: 88 Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Philadelphia	02-21-2008, 04:35 PM [quote=nmsvbteam;39730] "I suppose the thought could be that it is shifting your center of gravity forward and your compensation is to pull down on your achilles." I think what you mentioned above may be exactly what they're getting at. The physical therapist said that because of my hip flexors/psoas being tight, it is leading to an anterior tilt in my pelvis, which in turn has caused my left leg to be almost a centimeter longer than the right. Because of the leg length difference, I am putting most of of the stress on my left with running and jumping, and ironically while going through some assessments, I also found that my balance on my left leg (while standing on on a bosu, flat side up, on one leg, while holding my right leg in a quad stretch) is 100% better then on my right leg, even though my left achillies is injured! So it must be true, I must favor my left leg. Don't get me wrong, we are doing some calf stretching, and also iontoferesis (applying a topical steriod to the achillies with some sort of machine to decrease pain and immflamation) but the PT is also 90% focusing on proper stretching techniques of the hip flexors and doing some funky adjustment techniques, which in turn is evening out my leg length. (on an interesting side note: my achillies flared up not from volleyball...one of my individuals...I work with adults with developmental disabilities...threw a vase at me and I tweeked my achillies in an awkward way while trying to avoid getting hit by the flying base back in August...since then my achillies hasn't been the same) I just hope that they are treating my injury in the proper way...I want to be ready to play beach this season, hopefully in about 2 months. My husband and I are leaving on a carribean cruise in about 2 weeks, and i was hoping to do some sand training while in port, but i guess that will have to wait Thanks for your two cents...That's great news about your knee. I hope it continues to improve. are you playing in a doubles tourney this weekend? It is a balmly 32 here and Philly and we're expecting a snow storm tommorow