Originally Posted by
tweakxc03
The pain seems to be in the muscle belly - so it probably is a strain.
As for the hip issue - it may or may not be labrum. The pain started off basically as what I thought to be a sore groin/adductor muscle, originating up high in the groin and then down into the muscle belly. It occurred the day after squats and power cleans and just got worse. I tried pretty much everything - stretching (made it worse), 4-5 days of heavy NSAIDs, active recovery, squatting lighter weight, (gasp) leg presses, even dry needling. Nothing worked and it got to a point where rolling over in bed would wake me up in the middle of the night. I tried doing nothing at all for 6 weeks. It would start to get better then re-aggravate easily. After about 3 months of this I went to the ortho for X-ray who then recommended MRI. The X-ray revealed a small amount of arthritis, but that's all. Given the sudden onset of the pain it seems unlikely to me that arthritis is the cause.
Basically anything that makes the adductor contract seems to piss it off. Explosive movements like jerks, power cleans or power snatches are out of the question. I will say that the pain is almost totally gone as of now, but I can still feel it a little bit the day after deadlifting. Pushing the sled doesn't seem to aggravate it at all since the degree of hip flexion is pretty muted.
I would kill 6 or 7 people just to be able to squat again, much less clean or snatch. The last time I squatted at all was probably July or August.