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For the last few months whenever I ride long steepish gradients and remain seated I've experience a most unpleasant deep ache in the lower area of the buttocks/top of the hamstrings .
I am pretty flexible at the age of 57 and can easily touch my head on my knees when sitting with outstretched legs on the ground so presume I don't have tightness there.
No matter what stretches I do it keeps plaguing me so I thought I'd ask for ideas on here for DIY help as I don't have funds for private physio etc.
Many thanks
Bill
How is your internal/external hip rotation, possibly osteoarthritis of the hip joint?
I'm interested in answers to this too although it happens when I walk briskly up steep hills. With me it is tight glutes and stretching them helps a bit. If I have to sit down when I'm sore it's really painful.
Random guess... Saddle angle? maybe drop the nose a bit.
Lost a butt plug?
Go and see a physio.
There's an awful lot going on there and you can get referred pain, so the damage isn't necessarily where you feel it..
I don’t have funds for private physio
Depending non where you live you may be able to self refer online for a NHS physio appointment. For me, that means I Google NHS physio referral and my home town, fill in the online form & you'll be seen/phone assessment. Might be worth a try.
Private physio cost me £60 for a consultation in Newcastle. Assessment and some recommended exercise.
When I had issues it was weak glutes. Similar sounding ache. The exercise that worked was oyster and variations of. It's quite subtle to get right. Need to keep your waist up and your top hip down.
I know it as a Pilates exercise. May have other names.
Thanks all ..I may try those oysters !
£40 for an hour at my physio, he found things I didn't know were wrong with me, they don't hum and haw then google it like GP's they earn it by finding it and fixing you.
I'm on glute exercises at the minute, must be an age thing(58) a nice side benefit is comfort on bike seats.
Think my physio is £45 an hour. I'm lucky that I can afford it, but after a lot of back and hip problems spread over 30+ years, I tend to take the approach that I can't afford not to. Probably cost me £1 a week.