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This is episode 29 of the Squat University podcast.

The goal with each and every one of these

shows is to bring you as much value-packed content to help you move better in the gym and in

light decrease your body's aches and pains and help you reach your true athletic potential now

recently i finished up a series of podcast on different hip injuries that occur on the front side of

the hip so we talked about groin strains,

hip flexor injuries, and even hip impingements. Now it's time to move on and direct our injury

talk to another side of the hip. Talk about a common injury that many strength athletes have,

which is Pyriformis syndrome. Now Piroformis syndrome is an injury that creates a pain deep

inside your hip underneath your glutes, and it can create radiating symptoms down the backside

of your thigh. So that's the pain that almost shoots from your butt all the way down. It can

even go all the way into your foot. Now, although we've known about this injury for decades,

there's research that dates all the way back to like the early 1900s, the exact cause and

the best course of treatment has continued to puzzle those in the medical field for many years.

If you do a simple Google search, how to treat Piroforma syndrome, you will find a number of

different types of suggested treatments.

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