Later within the day on Friday after my lengthy onerous trip, my again within the neighborhood of my proper SI joint received painful. It even bothered me sitting down and laying down so interfered with my sleep Saturday night time. It has by no means occurred earlier than that this was precipitated by a motorcycle trip, my again often doesn’t thoughts these, particularly on my recumbent. I used to be additionally getting some sciatica-like ache operating down my proper leg, which I’ve not had shortly. This made me assume this is likely to be the piriformis muscle, not the SI joint, as a result of if it turns into spasmed it could actually press on the sciatic nerve crossing underneath it. Studying up on “piriformis syndrome and si joint”, I discovered that these two circumstances can get combined up because the piriformis crosses the si joint so signs could be related and in the identical space of the physique.
I’ve another clues. Once I go on lengthy onerous rides, particularly if I’m pushing an even bigger gear doing intervals, I generally get butt ache, which I assumed was simply the glute muscle complaining as a result of I’m working it onerous. However the piriformis runs proper underneath the glute, and the ache may have been coming from this. I skilled this ache on Friday’s trip and shrugged it off. Presumably the piriformis muscle turned infected and even went into spasm. The opposite clue if that the signs had been principally passed by Saturday. It is smart {that a} muscle spasm or infected muscle would relax in someday, particularly since I took anti-inflammatories Friday. It appears much less possible that if I’d carried out one thing to inflame the SI joint itself it might have calmed again down so shortly.
So I made a decision to proceed as follows: as many days of relaxation till the signs are fully gone, then part train again in slowly and simply. The error I made on Friday, after some relaxation and straightforward days following a setback, was to dive proper again into my hardest trip, full size and full depth. After my signs are gone this time, I’ll additionally slowly part bodily remedy workout routines for SI joint strengthening, and likewise resume doing my strengthening and stretching workout routines for the piriformis muscle. I’ll be seeing my orthopedic physician on July 16, and hopefully both issues will probably be higher by then or I’ll be capable of pursue it additional with him.
