Frustrating chronic glute and groin pain and tingling on outside of calf and foot

Hello Julie,
Yes, I can understand you must be frustrated.

First a few general thoughts. Remember, exercise is meant to improve your health, not make you frustrated and miserable. Sit back, and take a good objective look at your whole program.

Secondly, have someone stand behind you, place their hands on your iliac crests to check if they are near level, and then have you bend forwards; do you have a scoliosis?

Thirdly, I'm questioning the diagnosis, but remember I can't examine you. With tingling on the outside of your calf, and a tight hamstring (so often not that at all but a tight sciatic nerve) this points away from the femoral nerve; where exactly in the foot are you feeling it?

Take a look at the Maigne's syndrome page at Chiropractic Help using the Site Search function in the Nav bar on the left.

To test my theory, sit in a kitchen chair, flex your head onto your chest and have some raise your lower leg parallel to the ground, first left and then the naughty leg. Do you get pain in the back? Where? Is the right leg much tighter than the left and is there pain in the calf. Is this in reality a sciatica?

If you bend forwards, is the right leg much tighter than the left?

And lastly that pain in the groin and inner thigh. Lie on your back and pull your knee to the chest, to the opposite shoulder and then into the lotus position. Compare with the left hip. What's the difference?

Take each of these points, test them and make careful precise notes if you want me to be of any further assistance. Vague replies don't give me the information I need.

I'm not surprised the woodchop weight exercise aggravated things; bending and twisting.

I would recommend you start our simple lower back exercises EVERY morning in bed before arising.

Lastly, I'm not surprised you stopped seeing that chiropractor; we're not all lazy like that.

Dr Barrie Lewis