Strangest thing happened tonight…was on my last set of squats and all was well all workout, all reps very easy, deep, and clean…last set I was coming up and somethign snapped in my right lateral quad/IT band area and I launched the bar off my back as I crumbled so I didnt dislocate my shoulders or bust up my neck or back with the weight coming down on me…
thank God for safety rack pins, as I launched the weight and its way too much for the spotter to handle and he got out of the cage thank God…I laid there for a second and felt around for any deformity in my hamstring or quad, and moved my knee a little to make sure it was stable…all clear…did some breathing and sat up…lots of tightness in my IT band…thing is I know from past experience I have an insane, insane pain tolerance, and I have dislocated joints, fractured bones, and ripped muscles off bones before and stayed calm and didnt feel a ton of pain initially…
so I sat there for a few minutes wondering if the pain was gonna hit but it didnt…a PT on staff was there and let me hobble into the room and put me on the table, she did some thinks to check my knee stability, stretched my quad and hamstring, all there no pain…just certain angles stretching the outside of my thigh IT band area made me feel something…and when she pushed arount the IT band it hurt…but it hurts like that when I get ART on it, which I do weekly because that IT band has always been a problem but primarily with one legged squats and the like, not regular squats…
So she said no blood, no deformity, everything looks stable, to ice it up and see my regular PT in the morning since I already have an appointment for another injury I rehab…then depending on how it feels tomorrow look into a sports med doctor…I thought ER or Urgent Care would be a waste, wait forever and this is not something they deal with…
the PT said maybe some muscle fibers where the IT band attaches to hip tore? I thought maybe since I know I have lots of scar tissue on that IT band, maybe some scar tissue ripped off and that could possibly be a good thing long term no???
So, whats up with something in the IT band area snapping during a moderately heavy squat even if it felt easy? Its a few hours later now and the pain is coming on, its right down the middle of the outside of my quad where I always imagined my IT band was, but she assured me it was still attached and would take something like a freak accident and tons of force to detach an IT band so not to worry.