I have a dull pain that is constant in my right hip. I throw right hand backhand so this is the hip that gets the most abuse playing disc golf. It hurts most when I am sitting or driving in the car. I barely notice it if I am walking. It has been hurting for about a week and a half.

I am going to the Dr. tomorrow to have it checked out, but I was just wondering if there were any common hip injuries within the disc golf world, or if anybody can relate?

I have been practicing a lot recently, and fear that I have done some severe damage to the socket. I have a friend who played disc golf casually who is 33 and just had his hip replaced. Needless to say, this makes me nervous.

I've been playing for over 20 years, no hip problems. My rotator cup is shot though.

I have a dull pain that is constant in my right hip. I throw right hand backhand so this is the hip that gets the most abuse playing disc golf. It hurts most when I am sitting or driving in the car. I barely notice it if I am walking. It has been hurting for about a week and a half.

I am going to the Dr. tomorrow to have it checked out, but I was just wondering if there were any common hip injuries within the disc golf world, or if anybody can relate?

I have been practicing a lot recently, and fear that I have done some severe damage to the socket. I have a friend who played disc golf casually who is 33 and just had his hip replaced. Needless to say, this makes me nervous.



I'm assuming based on what you describe you have no pain down the back or your leg or numbness anywhere in the leg correct. Is the pain closer to the thigh or the lower back?

closer to the thigh. The pain is right where the hip socket is, no where else. No numbness, no pain down the back of the leg.

could you describe your pivot? that may need an adjustment to reduce strain on the hip

I would doubt you are going to need a hip replacement. Usually people that need hip replacement at a young age (under 65 or so) have had serious trauma or have a condition called Hip osteonecrosis, a problem of the blood supply to the head of the femur (the ball of the ball-and-socket hip joint). The lack of normal blood supply causes a decrease in delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the bone and the bone subsequently dies. My wife is a medical student and her sister recently had hip replacement at age 42 due to the latter condition. I would possible caused of the pain is coming form a muscle strain, bursitis, or referred lumbar pain.

I started having hip pain last winter, probably a muscle strain I attributed to cold weather and going back and forth between low and high grip throwing surfaces. I think when I was throwing on slightly slippery ground I would get lazy with the pivot.

I have had good success relieving pain with icing the affected area, accupunture, and gentle range of motion stretching, and taking a break from playing for a while. My chiropractor has done some adjustments that helped as well.


~Chris

I have had that, and every other imaginable, injury from throwing with bad form. Play the game lefthanded for a month or six. If it goes away, it was from bad form.

I was transferring momentum to my snap by jamming my right leg on the release. This also takes its toll on the right knee.

Playing lefthanded for six months has been wonderful for all of my bad form injuries. Not as wonderful for my rating, if those rounds ever count. My back doctor thought I either had given up the sport or was seeing someone else, last time I saw him.

No, just throwing lefty. Bringing some balance to the corpus.

I would doubt you are going to need a hip replacement. Usually people that need hip replacement at a young age (under 65 or so) have had serious trauma or have a condition called Hip osteonecrosis, a problem of the blood supply to the head of the femur (the ball of the ball-and-socket hip joint). The lack of normal blood supply causes a decrease in delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the bone and the bone subsequently dies.


That is what my buddy had. He also had 4 holes drilled into his left hip to try and prevent it from happening to that side as well.

Thanks for the advice.

I am leaning toward bursitus. I have a very bad right knee and from favoring my knee, I developed bursitis in my left hip. No pain walking, but laying on it is brutal.My Dr. put a cortizone shot in the burse and really helped for a couple months.

I had the same(or simular injury last year)...trying to throw to hard was the main culprit...and I drive for a living so it was hard to recover...the injury was from the strain on the tendon(that attachs the "BALL" to the hip)...I had to have a complete adjustment(full body)and lots o rest...only threw forehand with a left foot lead for 3 months...good luck

I bet your medius and/or minimus muscles are extremely tense -- go to a massage therapist who does deep tissue massage -- one to four sessions will likely do the trick -- rest will work too but will take much longer. As previously mentioned by Bruce, this was likely caused by poor form so have a good pro check out your throw to see what's wrong.

Thanks for all the advice.
The Doc said Ibuprofin and PT.
My Aunt is a Massage Therapist who does deep tissue.
I have been stretching and icing a lot.
I will also try and get the throw looked at.

It is also really hard to not go out and throw, but I would rather get healthy than get limpy.

I had the same problem for a while. I think I fixed it when I started allowing myself to follow through completely instead of stopping abruptly and putting a lot of strain on the lead hip.

When you see your doctor, get your hip X-rayed. I had degenerative arthritis in my left hip. I had been in physical therapy for a month because of pain. My pain was in the left groin and everytime I stood up I would get a pain, sometimes dull and sometimes severe. I was only 53 :confused:when I had a total-hip replacement, now twelve years later, I have taken up disc golf. :D No problems, so far.
Good luck!

PT is going well. I found out that despite my active lifestyle, the muscles in my right upper leg were really weak. The pain is virtually gone, and I played 18 holes on saturday.

I also got magnetic insoles (http://www.nikken.com) which are amazing and I highly recommend. I also work at a mini-mart stocking the cooler and doing heave lifting on concrete for 4 hours at a time. My legs and hips would be very sore and tight when I was working. The insoles totally changed that for the better.