Oblique Strain Injury
Oblique Strain injury Huntington Beach
I never thought I would be writing about this topic from a personal experience but as it turns out when you are active you end getting the oddest conditions. This condition happened to me playing baseball, as most of my injuries do, and I was scared to death by how I felt within minutes of it occurring.
This article today is more of a testimonial/ personal account of my injury and how I, as of a few months removed from the date of injury, am fairing. I will go over how it happened, how I felt, the process of properly diagnosing it, how to rehab it and proper return to play theory based upon risk/ reward.
If you are a baseball fan you know an oblique strain injury is at least 15 days on the DL, if not more. I can tell you now from personal experience it is the most uncomfortable and scary injury I have ever had. This was more debilitating than a Grade 2 hamstring tear, a rotator cuff strain, a back pain, and cuboid syndrome. The thing is you don’t realize how much you use your core until it’s gone.
Oblique Strain Injury Video
I’ll spare you a laundry list but here are just a few things that created shocks of pain in the first week of an Oblique Strain injury:
– Putting on shoes
– Getting into a car
– Hitting the breaks
– Sitting up
– Walking
– Running
– Rolling over
– Going to the restroom (#2 mainly)
– Tilting to one side
– Laughing
– Most of all sneezing.
Oh my gosh, sneezing it felt like my intestines were going to come out… it brought me to my knees.
How did it happen? I had a few small events during the game but it was topped off with a swing. I play outfield and ended up having to dive for a ball in the first inning, as it was coming directly over my head. I caught it of course, but over stretched my left side in the process. Over the next few innings I felt it a little in my left side, just under the last rib, as I was rounding the bases.
Everything remained stable till around the 7th inning when I swung and missed, which resulted in a “pop” and pain as I ended the swing. I looked over at the on-deck batter in pain and confusion but continued with the at bat, bunting the remainder, even with 2 strikes. I laid on the ground behind the dugout the rest of the game attempting to brace my core and stabilize the area but that ship had sailed. It hurt even to roll over when I wanted to watch a play.
More on my Oblique Strain Injury in this link.
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