You might have Femoroacetabular impingement
Something I had the last time I got back into jumping, right hip hurt like hell when I landed, but before that even walking, especially up stairs made it feel bad.
What fixed it for me was releasing both the long and short adductors and stretching them.
Plus attacking every area on the inner the leg/groin and down by the glute, plus glutes, piriformis.
Then stick the end of the thin part of a oly barbell across the inner top of the hip crease while sitting - yes it hurts a lot...
But it's usually due to adductor tightness and disfunction - not many people release and stretch them
Avoiding stretching is just gonna make it worse...
That Got ROM guy on youtube had the same issue, and I used a lot of his stuff to fix it
See the vid description for more details
also just do a search for FAI in his channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRwCHfS_Dt0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoJmOV0RVTU
thanks for the advice man! i'll revisit it tomorrow when i have time.
soo.. i think stretching was one of the culprits: i was trying to get more flexible (to improve health ironically), after injuring my left glute/ham/hip etc. i think something caused some damage right near the bone, in a few spots (adductor/sacrum). i obviously could be wrong, but when you say:
"not stretching it will make it worse"
i've experienced the opposite.
by not stretching it, it improves a little. stretching it causes it to explode and get considerably worse.
i tried doing some of the fei stuff, including some serious "release" using my jacknobber etc, it was just making it worse. normal "ADL" (every day activities) become impacted when i stretch it.
when i don't stretch it, I may not feel it much during ADL - only a few movements. I always feel it when i do some kind of run etc. I feel it significantly when i bend over, touch the floor, and push my hips back a bit. I imagine some of those stretches way back, pushed it passed the brink. if I had to bet $$ on it, i'd say there's some major damage in there.
it might heal eventually. at this point i just have to wait it out or go see some specialists.
i'll probably just try to wait it out for a few more years. who knows though. i fucked myself up, i'll live with the consequences.
would be great if it healed though, not going to lie
if it was at the point where i couldn't get some runs in with my dogs, i'd most likely see folks about it, because that would be very depressing. i guess that'd be the redline.
pc!