OP or not OP

Over the summer I thought long and hard about whether I would play one last season of footy - I'm turning 32 soon, and although when I was 23 playing I'd look at the old blokes still going and think, geez, they're a bit old to be still playing, and now I've fallen into the same category.

I thought, well if I'm going to go around one more time, I'd invest in getting my body to the point where I could perform at my best, with really only the amount of time I could work on it being a real limitation.

Hours of physio, orthodics, specialised training, and I was well on my way - I didn't do any running for three months and still managed to get into the 7's in my beep test, which would have gotten me into the army or the fire brigade, so I was fairly happy.

That was until it happened, I started getting a pain in my right groin, which developed into server pain, so much so that I couldn't run or kick or anything.

Initially I was diagnosed with an over active adductor, but the training I was given wasn't helping, in fact it was getting worse. I saw the club physio who diagnosed it as ostititus pubis - and inflamation of around the groin and lower abs where they attach to the pelvis - yikes, this finishes careers, and at my age I'm pretty much done.

I went through and mostly stuck to the regime I was given, and again not much was happening - two things helped, anti-inflamitories and strapping the old pelvis and groins.

So recently joining a gym, I thought as part of my work outs I'd find some exercises for my hip - bingo. One exercise I hang off a bar raising my knees to my chest, and the other I knee down with a couple of dumbbells and stand up on my knees. Guess what, each time I do it, the pain I was feeling goes - so what is it? beats the hell out of me, I'm just glad I stumbled across it and it works!

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