Basketballer Rehab

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Hi supertraining group, here is my request:

A basketball player complained about soreness and

slight disturbance to run at max speed coming from the

left glute area without locating a specific point,

about 4 months ago. It disappear the few following

weeks while keeping away from the court.

He then went under an individual resistance/plyometric

training this summer during which it never came back

and went well. The physio at first, identified what I

thought it was: a strain highly likely in the glute

medius. The off season went well: he was doing

progressive resistance training and various exercises,

combined with rehab and finally compensated the

deficit in term of strength of his glute between left

and right via selected exercises. Unfortunately,

following 12 weeks of training, it came back 3 weeks

ago. Nothing particular seems to trigger it, as it is

very difficult to control what I was doing outside.

It has come to the point where he has a sore glute especially

when waking up and slightly limp while walking, still

after 3 weeks of nothing. The physio advice to get on

with it and therefore, I stopped him with lower limb

exercises. Even after a substantial stop of nearly 3

weeks, the soreness still appears sparingly here. It

seems to be speed related and not very much

directional related as he can do various SAQ exercises

while warm up and fast feet exercises at decent speed

without discomfort. However, impossible for him to

feel confident on a progressive run of 30m straight

line increasing speed to max.

I have come to the point where I got confused and mostly

unable to identified the problem but mostly the

relevant solution.

Therefore, any suggestion, shared experience or past

problem regarding gluteus area would be greatly

appreciated as I tried to provide as much information

as I could.

Regards

Jo Brun,

Bath, UK.