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Yeah he's not keen on the op either, but there don't seem like many other options once position, stretching etc have been exhausted.
Currid-
Stretching doesn't help, if it's properly vascular, it might if it's a nerve impingement. Position can but obviously the ranges are limited and for me I have other issues and aerodynamics to consider. If it gets worse, such that it affects ALL my cycling, like some people find, then I will likely have to opt for surgery, coz I ain't going to start swimming or any shit like that soon.
With a season off the TT bike I'll see what happens when I start again. I may move further forward or something and see what my fitter has to say. If I can get back any losses with other aero changes then I could still be on for my 49.
hippy
Yeah, I spent ~£1000 being tested for that, only to get "inconclusive" as the answer.
I can't believe with all the resources they have it took Dombrowski's team longer than me to pin down the issue. I mean, do US pros not know how to Google?
"If the athlete persists, eventually they’ll find their way to a specialist — after months or years of increasingly expensive tests — who will diagnose IAE." This.
I've also had Meralgia Paresthetica symptoms, which is a hip nerve impingement and is probably related to my TTing crushing everything at the front of my hip, hence my shift to shorter cranks to open up my hip angle.
I've basically ignored it all with no real solution offered. I still broke my club 25, 50 and 100 records having to sit up mid-race to get my leg working again. I could easily knock time off all of them if I could actually finish a race without carrying a dead leg for half the course! Don't really know where to go with it though. Surgery is a horrible option and anything else I do costs me a fortune so not being pro it's not really worth it.
I sent these to my fitter back in 2012:
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triathlon_Forum_F1/Exercised_Induced_Arterial_Endofibrosis_P2120151
https://cyclingtips.com/2011/11/exercise-induced-arterial-endofibrosis/
Got some responses from various forums too:
See: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=common+iliac+artery+kinking&t=ffsb&ia=web