This weekend while playing tennis with a friend I was charging the net and planted hard with my one foot. I felt a shot of pain go up my body, and it seems to have stopped around the lower abdomen pelvic area (right in the center of my body). The area has a dull ache today, and it is mostly when I am walking. Touching the area I feel little if any tenderness. Would this be common of a muscle strain for that area, and what kind of treatment is best?

Sounds quite suspicious for a groin pull ( muscle strain). Time , warm compresses , and some Aleve( if tolerated) can be very helpful. DOing alternative non-stressful exercise ( like swimming) would be useful as well.

What about massage? Would that help?

You are so dirty minded. But yes indeed you are correct. It is very close to sensitive areas howver and should be done by someone quite " experienced".

Doc, if you think it is suspiscious for a muscle strain. What else do you think it could be?

Just asking, Doc

Massage is a great thing...I can't help that poor Ciggie has hurt his groin!

If it is related to the tennis then that's all but sometimes we relate pains and discomforts to events that aren't really causally related , like getting diarrhea after eating at Taco Bell. If your pain doesn't improve with the above measures get it checked out.

My brother and I have been having some extreme muscle pains lately. During the summer of 2003, one morning I woke up and I couldnt straighten out my foot (I was lying on my back, I couldnt point my foot to the cieling) without extreme pain in my calves (I think thats what its called, its on the opposite side of the shin). IT only happens on whichever side I move the foot on (for example, I move my right foot, the right calf hurts, left foot-left calf hurts). I thought it was a knot so I just literally FORCED my foot to point to the cieling.... bad idea...
Forcing it to do that caused my calf to generate a huge, unbearable shot of pain. I had to walk around on the toes of that foot for the next 2 days (that day and the next). I think it may have just pulled a muscle. It was in the right foot at first, then my left, and now its just under my chin . I have to be careful when I yawn not to resist the movements or else a pain just like the one in my calves will go through the affected area (its in the tender spot, just behind the bone of the chin, under the tongue). It has shot a little pain through, to remind me not to resist, and when it does, if I press my finger against the area in pain, the muscle is rock solid. I can feel the muscle stretch if I look straight up.

Any ideas, doc?

You wouldn't by any chance be taking Creatine would you? This has been known to cause significant cramps. Since you have had these symptoms so long I would recommend seeing your doc about it pretty soon.

Only medications I am on is bricanyl for asthma (not used much), and some wierd stuff for depression (Wellbutrin I think its called, which i dont take anyway so I shouldnt have any side-effects from that). I dunno, I havent been to the doctor in over a year, and my last checkup was in 2002 (O.o). My last immunizations were in '99 (that was the last time I've ever been injected with something), but yeah, I'll see the doctor about this sooner or later, because even I dont think it should last this long.