Squat Form - Right Hip Pain
Running LP for second time since 2017. I’d experienced pain then in my right hip squatting, nearing the 200# mark. I saw a SSC at that time once but we weren’t able to find anything obvious to account for the pain. I continued to squat to 230# and had to stop.
I’m now about six weeks in at a 200# squat, 178# bw and I’m starting to feel a little of that exact same pain. It isn’t nearly as bad as it was so I’m continuing to squat.
I have cut squatting to twice a week since feeling it, bookended on Sunday and Thursday.
Best way I can describe the pain is, in/near the hip joint. Starting at the top of the inner hip crease and feeling it around the underside to the glute. I feel pain more near the hip crease when standing, externally rotating my femur (turning my right foot clockwise). If I cross my right foot onto my left knee, when sitting in a chair, I feel some pain but more in the glute area. Most acutely, I feel it during the squat, bouncing out of the bottom, and that is mostly felt around the hip crease.
Here’s a back 45 and a full rear view. The rear view shows an obvious imbalance from plate to plate on the bar but curious what others might see in my legs, hips, shoulders, etc.
I included my last sets of bench and PC. All vids stitched together.
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I know that my right leg is shorter, but to what degree, I don’t know. I was recently seeing a chiropractor. In my X-ray, we found a neck vertebrae near the base of the skull tweaking my head pretty badly to my right but surprisingly my hips were in decent alignment albeit with my right hip slightly higher. My right arm hangs down markedly lower from the shoulder than the left does.
