Oblique Strain Taping
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Oblique Strain Tape Job
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I never thought I would be writing about this topic from a personal experience but as it turns out when you are active you end getting the oddest conditions. This condition happened to me playing baseball, as most of my injuries do, and I was scared to death by how I felt within minutes of it occurring.
This article today is more of a testimonial/ personal account of my injury and how I, as of a few months removed from the date of injury, am fairing. I will go over how it happened, how I felt, the process of properly diagnosing it, how to rehab it and proper return to play theory based upon risk/ reward.
If you are a baseball fan you know an oblique strain is at least 15 days on the DL, if not more. I can tell you now from personal experience it is the most uncomfortable and scary injury I have ever had. This was more debilitating than a Grade 2 hamstring tear, a rotator cuff strain, a back pain, and cuboid syndrome. The thing is you don’t realize how much you use your core until it’s gone.
I’ll spare you a laundry list but here are just a few things that created shocks of pain in the first week of an Oblique Strain:
- Putting on shoes
- Getting into a car
- Hitting the breaks
- Sitting up
- Walking
- Running
- Rolling over
- Going to the restroom (#2 mainly)
- Tilting to one side
- Laughing
- Most of all sneezing.
Oh my gosh, sneezing it felt like my intestines were going to come out… it brought me to my knees.
How did it happen? I had a few small events during the game but it was topped off with a swing. I play outfield and ended up having to dive for a ball in the first inning, as it was coming directly over my head. I caught it of course, but over stretched my left side in the process. Over the next few innings I felt it a little in my left side, just under the last rib, as I was rounding the bases.
Everything remained stable till around the 7th inning when I swung and missed, which resulted in a “pop” and pain as I ended the swing. I looked over at the on-deck batter in pain and confusion but continued with the at bat, bunting the remainder, even with 2 strikes. I laid on the ground behind the dugout the rest of the game attempting to brace my core and stabilize the area but that ship had sailed. It hurt even to roll over when I wanted to watch a play.
Then the fun began… the paranoia. How bad is the injury? Can I play next week? Can I play again ever? What if I get sick and start to sneeze?!
In all honesty the worst situation was if I was to get sick… forget playing baseball! I actually was set to fly out in a few days and considered wearing a SARS mask on the plane but ended up disinfecting my seat to not look odd.
The next 3 weeks I didn’t play baseball nor workout. If you check my Instagram feed (@PerformanceHB) you’ll see I taped up the area to limit motions, which could create more damage if not checked. The tape job limited lateral flexion and extension… I choose to use Leukotape because it’s resistance to stretching. Other types of tape, like Rock Tape and KT Tape, would not do the job; they stretch too much.
Around 5 days after the injury I started to come out of my emotional daze and started to think logically. Am I sure this is an oblique strain or is it a larger tear? Did I fracture a rib? What else could it be?
To find out exactly what my injury was I decided to seek the help of a great Musculoskeletal (MSK) Ultrasound Sonographer Mike Jablon, whom helped me learn MSK Ultrasound. In case you don’t know what this is, it is an Ultrasound (just like with pregnancy) but to visualize muscles and tendons and more. I don’t have great insurance and I though an MRI would be a bit of a cost. Ultrasound was very accessible to me… I have one in my office and I know how to read an image. It’s also very accurate when used correctly.
Ultrasound did not fail me. Mike inspected the site and determined with “great certainly” I had an Oblique Strain and a small avulsion to the rib attachment.
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should you still do compressions even after a month and 3 weeks has passed? cus right now I do have a right oblique strain I have never done a compression since the start, though now it doesn't hurt (for most of the days) and I can walk and straighten my posture kinda, but it still swells and some chairs make it a bit painful when it presses on the apex of the swelling... I do icing sometimes when it hurts and Im home, but thats it really.
Also should you do compressions even if it hurts?
That’s a good question. If your in that much pain you should see someone medical local. I wouldn’t know that answer without examining you.
Hi Dr.
I have a huge beer belly and I noticed that one side of the obliques (the left side) feels bigger and looks bigger and I feel also a sense of sensitivity on that side. I was afraid that it was a tumor or something serious so I went to the hospital they did a cat scan of my entire left side and they said everything looks fine and all my blood work and they did a lot of blood work everything came back normal. Yet it does not change the fact that one side of the oblique (the left side) looks and feels a bit bigger than the other side with that feeling of sensitivity. Also, I notice when I breathe deeply the left side goes in and out much wider (like a pump) which is bizarre.
My Kat Scan and all my blood work went to my family doctor and he confirmed that based on the blood work and the report from the hospital radiologist everything looks normal. This was about 6 to 7 months ago.
Do you know what else can be causing this issue? Is it the fact that I'm overweight or maybe one side of the muscles are weaker than the other side? Can you give me any input? Thank you !!!
ZOHAR SUTTON I have the exact same problem. Pulled my oblique at work working under conveyors at the airport. Taken ages to heal then I started coughing and sneezing and it seems to have really irritated it again.
I think you guys should just set up a call with me. This is going to go away sooner than you think. p2sportscare.janeapp.com/ Book a call and we can go from there.
When is using resistance bands and that's what it how I got injured with the can this be cure a couple of months
email us if you have questions
How about an ab wrap? It’s been my belly button left for like a square of my stomach- 3 weeks now, on and off with ice and it sucks
Ive never suggested one because the tape has worked better
How do you know for sure that it is the oblique? Do you need an CT or MRI?
History tends to rule it out
For the past year I have had a nagging pain in my oblique area. Superior to the hip which runs up to my lower pec on the left side. Imaging came back negative but I’m in neuro muscular pain. I took 2 months off from lifting and rested, got back into a routine and the same thing happened again.
Both times it happened after shoulder addiction. Pain in the ass
Yep it's a tough one!
Performance Place Sports Care & Chiropractic thanks for the video, it’s very helpful
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