+100. Former yoga teacher here. You really need to be working with a professional PT, as laid out by Luke for all the reasons he mentions.
Thanks! I’ll see if anyone works near me. Closest I come to you regularly is DC. The piriformis + sciatic nerve bit is PM&R diagnosis from a local, well-regarded university hospital system. So I trust the foundation. The ideas I laid on top of it are conjecture, and I will gladly follow a smart idea diligently… unless it’s just more clamshells, having followed that particular road to a very dead end over a few years.
Yup! I have what I’ve understood to be a minor leg length discrepancy on the order of 1cm. However, no one with a professional background has watch/filmed me pedaling to see if there is a subtle dip or similar that would only show up under a watchful eye. I don’t perceive rocking and buddies riding behind me don’t see it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. That’s why my next stop is a local bike fitter who is also a PT. If the leg length thing is a or the major contributing issue, I reckon she will have a keen eye for it.
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Feel free to tell your PT that about the clamshells too. Any good PT should be fine with that. Though this is a cycling issue, maybe consider someone with running expertise too since you suspect it’s a gait thing at root. Just because it happens on the bike doesn’t mean it’s cause by the bike, necessarily.
You may do well by aiming at a PT who works out of a gym or at least has a squat rack or similar in their photos, that would probably be more your style than a traditional clinic structure.
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Thanks. That running-focused idea is great. In fact, it’s pretty to me clear given how long I’ve taken off the bike that whatever this is, much of it is not caused strictly by the bike.