WAG Bruising on hips and worse

[Gymnast_Tor]

Hey everyone recently, my routines on bars have been improving with requirements of higher casting. When I finally started casting high enough and then started working on baby Giants, I started getting more and more bruises on my hips. (Normal). Recently though, I keep getting blood blisters under the bruises. Is this normal? It's extremely painful to do bars right now (but eh apparently that's just gymnastics. Pains and perseverance.) anything I can do to make this pain less or help this bruising stop? It hasn't been like this before I joined the Xcel team

 

[COz]

If you were getting random bruises and you couldn't remember doing anything to get them, then that would be worrying. This just sounds like you've been working hard and the skin needs to toughen. My competitive pole dancer sister would get terrible bruising across stomach etc each new move learnt, then it would go away and basically not come back (in that spot).

 

[Gymnast_Tor]

Okay thank you it was just mainly the blood blisters that would form under the bruising that was strange to me haha

 

[sce]

Bruises are broken blood vessels, sounds like you are just really beating up the same spot.

 

[Gymnast_Tor]

Bruises are broken blood vessels, sounds like you are just really beating up the same spot.

Makes sense. Perfect sense haha. Thank you

 

[Deleted member 14190]

Buy a neoprene back brace and pull it down around your hips when you do bars, (like a skirt). Problem solved.

 

[COz]

Yeah, blood blisters under purple bruises, they'll go away. Don't be concerned if they hang around for quite a while though after they stop hurting.

Buy a neoprene back brace and pull it down around your hips when you do bars, (like a skirt). Problem solved.

I misread that as neck-brace. Nodded and thought, of course a neck brace would fit around a gymnast's hips. Made me laugh

 

[Kandie Joe Faig]

Hey everyone recently, my routines on bars have been improving with requirements of higher casting. When I finally started casting high enough and then started working on baby Giants, I started getting more and more bruises on my hips. (Normal). Recently though, I keep getting blood blisters under the bruises. Is this normal? It's extremely painful to do bars right now (but eh apparently that's just gymnastics. Pains and perseverance.) anything I can do to make this pain less or help this bruising stop? It hasn't been like this before I joined the Xcel team

When that happened with my daughter we took a pair of gym shorts and sewed a piece of foam in the front hip area specifically for that part of training

 

[Vivianflips]

When my hips get beat up I put paper towels, napkins or tissues on my hips under my Leo, I find this to be a good quick fix. I'm guessing as this is an ongoing issues you probably want more of a permanent fix though.