Peyton had been compiling about her back hurting a little bit in the spring. Soccer and already started back up and she was still in basketball season too. We kept telling her, she just needed to stretch more. Her body is now built like a woman, she is full of muscle, but never stretches.
At her last CYC basketball game, I did notice that everytime she was lined up at the free throw line, she would grab her lower back. After that game she told me her back was killing her. We got in the car and headed down the road to her soccer game. As she was switching uniforms in the back seat, I heard her say, "owe, owe." I turned around and I said, "what is owe?" She said, "My back! I told you it's hurting me." So her little movement of lifting her legs out of one uni and into another was hurting her. That's when I knew it must be real. She went to her soccer game, played a solid first half. But right after half time I could tell she was running at about 80% and I saw her wiping tears. We, all the parents on the sidelines, yelled at her enough and convinced her to tell coach so that he would take her out.
He took her out the rest of the game, she game back the next day (it was a tournament) and tried to play, but that didn't last long either. We shut her down that week, made her stretch a ton, took her to Gallaghers trainer, and too her to a stretching place hoping to stretch it out of her. After a week of lots of stretching and no activity, she was still not better. Mike had us come up to work and he scanned her. Turns out, she had a stress fracture in her lower back.
We went and saw ortho the next week and he shut her down from EVERYTHING for three months!!! He told her she couldn't even swim for fun, as we were approaching summer. So, from mid April until mid July, she could do nothing except PT three times a week!!
LOOOOOOONNNGGGG summer ahead......
Here she is....lots of stretching and foam rolling....unfortunately, wasn't the problem this time!
