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As a successful deer season goes in the books, Texas is facing new challenges with its whitetail deer, according to the state's top deer manager.
Despite a slow start, the 2003 deer season was almost one of the best on record for big bucks, if not for total number of deer harvested.
"It'll be April before we actually get the results compiled (from our harvest survey)," said Clayton Wolf, who leads the Texas Parks and Wildlife deer program. "Until then, we're working off gut feeling. My guess is the harvest statewide will be a little below last year."
Studying the harvest chronology over many seasons, Wolf said that most animals are killed early in season.
"In the eastern part of the state and the Hill Country, we got off to a slow start. Other places like South Texas, with a later breeding season, it's a different scenario. The mast crop was not that good, but we had mild conditions in East Texas," Wolf said.
The abundant acorn crop in the Hill Country kept the deer away from feeders, Wolf said.
"We had good soil moisture and lots of native forage, plus the acorns in places. And it's hard to compete with Mother Nature. We do have a lot of hunters that watch corn feeders, so when corn is not as effective, total harvest success is going to be down some," he said.
Wolf explained that without deer moving around as much to feed, hunting success would decline.
But while numbers will probably drop, quality will be superb. Entry deadline for the Texas Big Game Awards program is Feb. 15, but there already have been substantially more and larger bucks entered, he said.
"There's no doubt that's been the case in South Texas, and it seems like even up across the Western Plateau and into the Panhandle there have been some really nice bucks," Wolf said.
The size of animals will make up for the lack of total volume, he said.
"Evidentially it's been a heck of a year for size. No doubt, even the middle-age bucks had a lot of antler mass on their heads. The conditions were best for maximizing the potential of the bucks (on each ranch)," Wolf said.
However, Texas deer hunters still aren't harvesting as many antlerless deer as biologists would like to bring populations in line with habitat.
"There just seems to be a ceiling on how many hunters will take," Wolf said. "The long-term trend, statewide, is we're totaling about 38 to 40 percent of the harvest is antlerless."
Wolf said there appears to be an 'I can only use so much venison' effect.
"Our biologists struggle with it. Initially people wanted to increase bag limits, but the net effect is that there is no net effect," Wolf said.
While the department is considering longer doe seasons, that may not be the answer.
"It's been suggested that longer seasons may actually lead to procrastination, and less harvest," Wolf said.
State biologists will recommend that the TPW add doe days in more East Texas counties this fall, to expand limits under the state's special landowner deer management programs, and to eliminate "double-tagging," so a hunter on a state wildlife management area or MLD ranch does not have to use a tag from his license.
Six counties west of Houston, in the Post Oak Savannah, are in the second season of testing a new set of special buck limits based on antler dimensions. And it seems to be bearing fruit, Wolf said. The reported buck harvest increased from about 600 in 2002, to more than 800 last year.
"It looks like it's working. It's certainly very popular in that country. Most folks are really tickled pink with what they are seeing in the herd," Wolf said.
And next year should be even better, Wolf said, when animals that were yearlings when the program started and did not get killed are older.
"It looks like it's achieving what we wanted," Wolf said.
Recent moisture could also help in 2004, he said.
"It looks like we've had some good wide-spread moisture here lately. And the antler-growing season is right around the corner. If we get some good cool-season forbs in the ground, it would be a good boost and give the animals a good jump start," Wolf said.
One downside to the strong 2003 season is that there may be fewer mature bucks in some areas in 2004.
"I heard a lot of people say they were shooting nice bucks, but not 5- to 7-year old bucks, they were 3- and 4-year bucks. Potentially in some areas like North Texas and South Texas on average landscape, people may have gotten into an age class of younger bucks. My guess is we lost a little bit of age class, because there were so many good medium-age bucks," Wolf said.
Wolf said there are quick answers to the growing problem of too many deer in many Texas suburbs, and Hollywood Park, on the northern fringe of San Antonio, is a bitter legal dispute over the city's plan to trap and slaughter some of the several hundred whitetails jammed into the neighborhood.
The city has received permits to trap and relocate, or trap and haul to a meat processor, the whitetails that are devastating the habitat. There's more than a deer per acre in the neighborhood, at least 15 times a healthy number.
But a group of residents has tried to block that move, saying the city should relocate rather than kill the deer.
"The big problem, even in places where there are not the volumes of animals, is that sometime the limits of habitat still create conflicts. Every year we deal with complaints, whether it's urban areas, deer-car collisions or crop depredation," Wolf said.
"We have found that solving this problem is very difficult because there are varying goals among adjacent landowners," he said.
"If one landowner is trying to grow peanuts or cotton, and the guy on the adjoining land is generating his income from leasing for hunting, there'll be conflicts."
The solution is not just shooting deer, though.
"Typically, we have to (prescribe) a long-term solution. The first thing we hear is, 'Give me the permit, I've got the bullets.' But just shooting some deer and not treating the disease - it will continue forever. So we sit down with folks and try to figure out a plan that often involves fencing or barriers," Wolf said.
Where fencing is not enough, for example on airports or inside communities, depredation permits are the only solution because deer roaming an airport's runways are a substantial hazard.
"Hollywood Park had lined up sites for releasing deer, but it's getting harder to find places that don't already have enough deer," Wolf said.
Deer trapped and relocated must be tested for chronic wasting disease, which delays the process. But most residents of rural neighborhoods want wildlife like deer as neighbors.
"You see Realtors actually using deer as a marketing tool - 'Wildlife in your backyard' kind of deal. People move there specifically because they want deer in their back yard and don't care if the deer eats some rose bushes," Wolf said.
Cities like Hollywood Park have imposed feeding bans, so residents don't exacerbate the problem by providing artificial encouragement for the deer to remain.
"Part of the lawsuit recently in Hollywood Park, is that the plaintiffs are claiming that their civil rights are being violated by not being able to feed these deer," Wolf said.
"They have claimed that these animals are their deer, their babies, and that some of these animals are now starving to death," he said.
"The bottom line is that there are many liberal tools for cities to use, but they have got to make a decision. The biggest problem in the past, because of politics, is that people don't want to do anything to the deer. It's always a political battle and the city is caught in middle. And it costs money to remove animals."
Lee Leschper is an Amarillo outdoor writer, outdoor editor of the Amarillo Globe-News and executive director of the Texas Outdoor Writers Association. E-mail him at email@example.com
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Time to stock up before trouble strikes.
This is a foodie's guide to stocking an emergency pantry. Sure, you are going to purchase and store the usual canned and packaged goods your family likes. And we aren't going to try to change that list.
But we want to introduce some new ideas. Products that take up less space and taste better than some of the items you may have used in the past. Some that are easier to prepare than before.
We offer food preparation tips to keep you sated and safe. And we remind you to stock those treats that make it more enjoyable surviving the heat and humidity without air conditioning. Just don't forget the water (1 gallon per person per day; stock a supply that lasts two weeks).
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Be creative: Don't even think about recipes. Use common sense and what you have on hand to prepare filling and nutritious meals.
Good juice: When you use canned or preserved fruits, pour off their canning juice or liquid before eating the fruit. Use that liquid in dressings for salads.
On the grill: For cooking on the grill, try Reynolds Hot Bags, foil bags to cook just about anything. Also, Reynolds Wrap Release Non-Stick Aluminum Foil makes cooking sticky things over coals easier. No problem with cleanup.
Save cooking water: When you have a pot of water to heat boil-in-bags, you don't have to discard it. Save it to heat boil-in-bags at another meal. Just bring to a boil again, let boil a few moments, then add more bags. Don't use for another purpose, however. If you've stocked a lot of boil-in-bags, be sure to have tongs on hand to get them out of the pot easily. Scissors also help to cut them open for serving.
Bread ideas: If bread becomes a bit stale, don't throw it out. When you make soup, break up the bread and put a few of these croutons in the bottom of the bowl before you ladle the soup into it. The bread will soak up the soup and make a more hearty potage. Or break the bread into smaller cubes and add to a marinated vegetable or bean salad. The vinaigrette dressing will soak into the bread for a version of panzanella. You also might try toasting the bread on the grill to use for bruschetta. Of course, if the bread is moldy you must discard it.
Pasta perfect: If you plan to stock pasta, purchase a thinner variety such as angel hair that cooks in less time so it uses less fuel. And there's no need to heat the sauce separately. Just toss the room temperature jarred sauce with the hot pasta. If you don't have parmesan cheese, you can grate stale bread or use dried breadcrumbs as a stand in.
Spice it up: A variety of dried spices and spice mixes makes it easier than ever to add flavor to such simple things as rice, couscous, instant mashed potatoes, pasta tossed with olive oil and other simple but filling starches.
Cold soup: Make gazpacho by adding tomato juice and water to thin salsa from a jar.
Off easy: Soups and many canned vegetables now come in pop-top cans so you don't need a can opener.
Rinse once: When using a variety of canned beans for one meal, place them all in a colander and rinse them all at one time instead of one kind at a time. This saves water.
Sweet defrost: If you have treats in the freezer -- brownies, cookies, pound cake -- and the power goes out, be sure to enjoy them as they defrost.
Food safety: Food kept under minimal refrigeration (in an ice chest) is prone to food safety issues, so be very careful how you handle it. At a time like this, food safety rules are very important. Use the disposable food cutting sheets for preparing meats and vegetables. And wear disposable gloves.
Cleanup: Use disposable plastic gloves to mix things by hand so you don't dirty utensils unnecessarily. This saves water used for cleanup. And use self-seal plastic bags instead of mixing bowls to mix salads. Just put the ingredients into one, seal and toss to mix. No need to wash a container. And if you store food in plastic bags in an ice chest, they take up less space than plastic containers.
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If you ve been struggling with your weight, you know how hard it can be to lose those extra pounds and keep them off. In the groundbreaking "Think Thin, Be Thin," nationally prominent psychotherapist Doris Wild Helmering and award-winning health writer Dianne Hales assert that the true key to a healthy body weight is a healthy attitude toward food and exercise. Their logic is simple: Your brain ultimately controls what you eat and whether you work out. If you change the way you think, you can change the way you behave. And you can lose weight.
Using proven psychological strategies and scientifically based exercises, you will learn how to harness your thoughts to transform your behavior, body, and life. With practical advice on such troublesome issues as curbing emotional eating, motivating yourself to exercise, and overcoming diet plateaus, this book is the ideal complement to any diet and weight-loss program.
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Walking home after the second Western was over at the Princess Theater, we'd play the roles we had seen on the screen. We were 7 or 8 years old at the time, but we didn't have the slightest difficulty in identifying with the cowboys in the movies. All of their motives were transparently clear to us - except, possibly, why anyone would want to kiss a girl when he could be practicing his lasso tricks instead. The Westerns I remember from those days have been filtered through a golden haze of time, but the one thing I am sure I remember correctly is that they were fun. They were high-spirited, joyous, anarchic movies in which overgrown adolescents jumped on their horses and whooped and waved their hats in the air, and rode as fast as the wind to the next town and the next adventure.
"Silverado" is a Western like that. I mean the comparison to be praise. This movie is more sophisticated and complicated than the Westerns of my childhood, and it is certainly better looking and better acted. But it has the same spirit; it awards itself the carefree freedom of the Western myth itself - the myth of a nation "endlessly realizing Westward," as Robert Frost had it, with limitless miles of prairie and desert and mountain interrupted only occasionally by a village with a church, six saloons and a Main Street wide enough for a dozen men to shoot at each other without all of them necessarily getting hit.
"Silverado'' is the work of Lawrence Kasdan, the man who wrote "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and it has some of the same reckless brilliance about it. It's the story of four cowboys who join up together, ride into town, refuse to knuckle under to the corrupt sheriff and end up fighting for justice. This is a story, you will agree, that has been told before. What distinguishes Kasdan's telling of it is the style and energy he brings to the project.
The cowboys include a sweet-faced young man who hopes to make his fortune (Kevin Kline), his goofy brother (Kevin Costner), a black man who vows to avenge his father's murder (Danny Glover) and a taciturn loner (Scott Glenn) who gets restless when he's not a long way from civilization. They meet along the way, after Glenn saves Kline from death in the desert, and together they help Costner escape from jail. Joining up with Glover, they ride on into the next town, Silverado, which is dominated by a slick sheriff (Brian Dennehy) and a gambling saloon run by a formidably competent little woman named Stella (Linda Hunt, in a scene-stealing performance).
I will not tell you too much of what happens next, but then perhaps I do not need to. If you are familiar with the Western, you will be familiar with this one. What may seem a little strange is that, if there is any nostalgia connected to this film, it will be found in our hearts and not in the characters on the screen.
Too many Westerns in the last 15 years have been elegies to a dead past, played out by actors remembering the cowboy roles of their youth (remember, if you can, the last Westerns of Robert Mitchum, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas). "Silverado" contains a group of talented young actors (Scott Glenn, the oldest, is in his 40s), and this is not their last Western but, in many cases, their first. The movie is set at the time when the West was still being opened up, when there was still opportunity there and when the bad guys were still so unsophisticated that they could fall for a dumb trick like getting trapped in a box canyon.
What does it prove, this movie about a bunch of cowboys held together by honor, this movie about bartender philosophers, evil sheriffs and young pioneer women with lines like "my beauty will pass someday, but the land will only grow more beautiful"? What does it prove? That the Western myth is most at home in a setting of innocence, that "Silverado" understands that and that somewhere in our hearts there may still be memories of little boys and girls who chose who got to be the good guys on the long walk home.
This movie is trying to kill these women, but they endure.
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Older Iowans can quickly learn about what to eat, how to keep food safe and how to increase their physical activity by trying free online nutrition lessons from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
Many parents report feeling rushed, stressed and unable to do everything they have to do at work and at home. However, parents don't have to live with constant chaos if they take care of themselves first, say the Science of Parenting bloggers from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
A new publication, Farm Energy: Case Studies – Techniques to improve tractor energy efficiency and fuel savings, is now available for download in the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Store.
Brian Gelder will discuss updates to the Iowa Daily Erosion Project to Version 2 as it expands to cover Minnesota and Kansas.
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach horticulturists offer tips on how to protect trees and shrubs from rabbits this winter.
Due to increased interest in farmland drainage in the past year, ISU Extension and Outreach is offering a workshop that covers many aspects essential to designing and planning new drainage systems or retrofitting existing systems.
Iowa social service workers have a new way to help their clients with financial issues, thanks to a nationally recognized toolkit being offered by Iowa State University's Human Sciences Extension and Outreach.
While medical professionals and others may be partners in the caregiving scenario, family caregivers are the only people who are present with patients in all care settings. National Family Caregivers Month recognizes and honors this contribution with the 2015 theme "Respite: Care for Caregivers."
A recent ISU Extension and Outreach publication, "Farm financial management: 16 ways to stretch cash flow," details the actions that farmers can take to improve their liquidity when times get tough.
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A new publication is now available from the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Store. Using Accounting Software for Food Hubs: Processing Traceable Orders (LF0009) is a step-by-step tutorial based on QuickBooks Professional accounting software.
Farming has become increasingly complex, and farmers must consider many factors as they weigh decisions about planting and fertilizing, pest and disease management and soil and water conservation. As they gather information and advice to make decisions, farmers rely on a variety of professional advisers to varying degrees, according to the 2014 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll.
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Updates on the latest crop production products and recommendations are topics at ISU Extension and Outreach meetings in Iowa City Nov. 24 and Ames Dec. 16.
Much grain has been harvested and put into the bin at 60 degrees and warmer, so proper grain drying and cooling is essential for storage life and grain quality. For safe grain storage during warmer conditions core it, cool it and check it.
The annual Integrated Crop Management Conference will be held Dec. 2-3, 2015 at the Scheman Building on the Iowa State University campus. This year, the conference has increased the number of speakers, providing topics and information on the latest in crop production and technology from around Iowa and the Midwest.
Rich Pirog, a pioneer in the statewide local foods movement, returns to Iowa on Wednesday, Nov. 4, to speak about his new experiences in Michigan at the quarterly meeting of the Regional Food Systems Working Group at the Story County Extension office.
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The little stories that arose during the 2010 high school football season are what made it so memorable. Here are some of the ESPNDallas.com high school team's picks for "Best of the Rest" awards commemorating those stories.
Best football performance by a school district: Denton. Class 5A Guyer and 4A Ryan each reached the state finals.
Honorable mention: Mesquite, after deep playoff runs by Horn, Poteet and West Mesquite.
Most exciting player: Brandon Carter, Euless Trinity. Every time the ball was in the hands of the Oklahoma commit, opposing defenses cringed. When a team can create an reverse pass package around Carter and run it with ease several times throughout a season, it knows it has something special.
Best playoff format change: State finals venue. By having a single venue for the state championship games, many more fans were able to either attend or watch on television.
Feistiest team: Wylie Pirates. Seeemingly outweighed and outmanned, the Pirates came within a couple of yards of advancing to the Class 4A Division I state title game. QB Nico Ramirez epitomized the trait, leading his team on a deep playoff run after suffering a dislocated shoulder in the last week of the regular season.
Toughest playoff road: Euless Trinity. In its final four Class 5A Division I playoff games, Trinity faced opponents' winning streaks, when combined, of 52 games. The Trojans last three opponents -- Coppell, Round Rock Stony Point and Pearland -- were undefeated.
Best passer: Paul Millard, Flower Mound. The senior put up video game-like numbers, throwing for 4,472 yards and 47 touchdowns, sparking upsets of Plano and Flower Mound Marcus along the way.
Most improved player: Joe Minden, Coppell. With little in the way of previous varsity experience, the senior threw for more than 3,400 yards and 30 touchdowns for the 13-1 Cowboys. By season's end, Coppell shifted from a one-dimensional running offense to a balanced offense that put up 392 yards through the air on Euless Trinity in the Cowboys' final game of the season.


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It wasn't much of a news item. I guess it was a slow news day, because it got picked up by news services all over the country. But the White House, shortly after President Obama took office, announced that it had lost its e-mail service.
The outage didn't last long, but the Obama White House, perhaps one of the most technology savvy administrations we've ever had, was at a loss as to how to handle the situation.
How do you live without e-mail?
Fortunately, some of the older staff, thinking back to their younger days, managed to keep things rolling. Instead of the constant clicking of keyboards and blackberries, the staff used the phone, and in several cases talked with their cohorts directly.
In many modern offices these are all but forgotten skills. The White House staff even found a stash of "while you out" phone message pads, no doubt left over from the Nixon Administration, so that bewildered White House staff could return phone calls.
Fortunately, before they reached the end of their patience, the e-mail servers, the gadgets which make modern office e-mail work, came back on line. Once again, the first President ever to have a Blackberry of his own, could, like the rest of us, go back to the constant e-mailing that defines modern work life.
I am, I have to admit it, as hooked on e-mailing and instant messaging as anyone can be. I have been through several blackberries, and yes, have had the infamous blackberry thumb.
For those of you not up on these terms, blackberry thumb is what you get when you hold your blackberry in one hand and use your thumb to send messages. It's a form of muscle strain. The only cure is to stop trying to send messages using one hand, or even to stop using the blackberry to send messages altogether.
Though it's estimated that 73% of Americans, and nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide, have some kind of access to e-mail, there is a move in some companies to have e-mail free days. This may or may not be a good idea, but the goal is to encourage more interpersonal contact. Rather than e-mailing customers, these companies want their sales agents, to talk to them directly.
The same is true for their fellow employees.
Instead of e-mailing the person in the next cubicle, which is more common than you think, they are encouraging face-to-face contact. It's been noted that the social skills for some employees decline because they become so dependent on e-mail. The hope is that an e-mail free Friday might reverse this trend.
There also one thing many email users forget. E-mail, once it's sent takes on a life of its own. An e-mail, admitting to some indiscretion, voicing a particular prejudice, or sent went you're angry, can, depending on who you send it to, be forwarded to possibly hundreds, if not thousands of people.
In Virginia e-mail sent to or by public officials is bound by the requirements of the Federal Freedom of Information Act. In other words, if you send an e-mail to your county supervisor that you would prefer not be shared with the rest of world, be careful. There have been several instances, all relatively recent, where citizens and various groups have requested copies of the e-mail traffic for county supervisors or local school boards.
While not that exciting I doubt that the citizens writing their public officials realized that their messages, once they hit that send button, had become public property.
E-mail has another serious drawback.
It makes it a lot easier to send a message when you're angry or when you don't know all the facts. I know, because I have sent a couple like that. Perhaps one of the best teachers in this regard was Winston Churchill. Winston didn't have e-mail, but he did write a lot of letters, and some of them, depending upon his mood could be caustic. So, Churchill, having learned his lesson over time directed his staff to hold his outgoing letters until the next day.
His files include dozens of letters that he wrote and never sent. You can do that with e-mail too, and a lot of people would be wise to learn that feature. I have.
The number of e-mails that get sent each day probably numbers in the billions. That means that e-mail free Fridays could just be a passing fad. But from time to time, it might be nice, if instead of an e-mail, we actually spoke to our office mates, or that fellow down the hall. You know, the one you've e-mailed, but never met. He might turn out to be a lot more interesting in person.


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As we are just days away from the NFL draft, the Washington Redskins have a pretty good idea as to what and whom they need to fill their remaining roster holes.
They have seven picks in total, and will without a doubt address their glaring need of a defensive back.
Aside from defensive back, they other have less pressing, yet still very important needs on both sides of the ball. This is a year where Washington cannot afford to spend its picks on many projects or rotational players; it is imperative that the team build depth for the future with solid, talented players that could possibly play right away.
The Redskins desperately need a a guy to bookend their offensive line across from Trent Williams, and will likely look to find a guy who can fill that role with one of their earlier picks. While they did bring in a few tackles in free agency, they aren't exacting starting-caliber players.
They will also need to find a potential replacement for veteran linebacker London Fletcher, who could very well retire after the 2013 season.
Regardless of position, there are many guys that could fill the voids that are on the Redskins roster.
This list is not about which player Washington should pick first or last, but is rather about which players have the ability and skill set to fit into its system and perform at a high level sooner than later.


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Chronic hip pain
Hello, folks!
I'm new to this forum, but it looks like a good place to seek advice on a chronic issue I'm experiencing in my training.
About 9 months ago while doing a CF WOD involving back squats, I somehow managed to mess up...or at least bring to the surface... something in my right hip. At first (like the night after the WOD) I had very sharp pain in the front of my hip (feels like right in the hip joint or just in front of it) when trying to walk up stairs. This subsided somewhat in the following days, but never went away completely. As different CF WODs would come up, it would occasionally flare up again, causing me pain while squating, running, etc..
Since the first of the year, I've tried to focus on improving my leg strength through squating/deadlifting etc. Initially, I was hoping to work past this chronic issue by strengthening everything in my lower body. However, all I managed to do was keep aggravating it intermittently. Further, it *seems* like favoring this side has led to a lower back problem on my left side (I'm assuming from compensation). All of this has left me very frustrated, as I've strained my lower back and re-aggravated my hip several times over the last four months, leaving me very little actual progress to show for my efforts.
I've tried chiropractic assistance, but essentially all I've been told is "stop doing what's hurting it". While that may ultimately be the answer I have to accept, I'm hoping there's something else I can do to fix this problem. Heck, at the moment I'd settle for just knowing exactly what the problem is.
(As point of reference, my physical parameters are: M/36/6'8"/240#. My max back squat is about 265#, and my max DL is about 335#. Not exactly setting any records here...)
As a current example of this issue, while doing stiff-legged deadlifts as part of today's CA WOD, my hip hurt like crazy (sharp pain) when trying to bend my waist below about knee level with the bar. Again, it hurts on/in the front side of the hip joint (as near as I can pin-point it).
Any assistance, advice, diagnosis, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I would get an MRI. It's clear that most stuff didn't work.
Although if you want you can try pure rest + massage/foam rolling/etc. to loosen up everything and see if that helps.
It SOUNDS like a labrum tear from the "in the joint" pain, which can pretty much be only fixed by surgery. That's why figuring this out is a good idea especially if you wanna lift weights and so you don't get any further imbalances.
What you SHOULD have done is RESTED and done rehab work right after the injury. If it didn't clear up within 2 weeks then see a doctor. I can't believe you let it go for 9 months without seeing a doc... that's just foolish man.
Steve--thanks for the input. Sounds like I need to start the long process of going to my doctor and getting a referral to see a specialist, etc. Intentionally a "fun" process with my HMO...
Labrum tear sounds kinda bad. I'll make sure to mention that as a possibility to my general practitioner, as he may be less educated about all of this than I am... Would this have chronic symptoms, or could it be intermittent?
Is it possible it's Iliopsoas Syndrome? I've been trying to educate myself more on all of the muscles/tendons in the hip region (and what can happen to them). This seems to be a possibility, especially given the on-again/off-again nature of this little beast of a problem. From what I understand, these two muscles cross in the region where I'm feeling pain, and are responsible in part for maintaining proper lower back curvature (something that's challenged during deep squats).
For what it's worth, I went to a chiropractor within a week of the original incident, and received back adjustments for about a month to supposedly help. At the time, the chiro believed it to be a hip joint rotation issue that adjustments would solve. I didn't do any further heavy back squats for that month, and after that month took a two-week "vacation" where all I did was hike in the mountains. After this, my symptoms had mostly disappeared, so I resumed doing the CF daily WODs. During the following months (this was starting in November), symptoms would sometimes re-appear, then mostly go away again after a few days.
Thanks for the input, Steve. And the little reality check. After doing CF for about a year and a half now, I guess maybe I've gotten a little lost in trying to always keep up with the WODs and make progress, forgetting that my body doesn't have to agree with my aspirations for it.
Do some PNF on your hip flexors + the foam rolling + massaging any tight muscles.
But if that doesn't clear it up....
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