This has been totally true for me. 99% specialists I've seen are totally clueless. Some of them flat out said they have no clue and can't help me other than offering advice to rest.

Find a sports physician. Ask around at a good powerlifting, strongman, olympic, or maybe even crossfit gym. (What is a good gym? They should have a lot of people squatting/dl over 500, and a handful 800+. There will be names on a leaderboard.) They'll know doctors that help you work through injuries.

And foam roller your it band. Every evening, and maybe every morning as well.

edit: with the it band, make sure it is your it band. Check with a good pt person that you don't have weak butt muscles (I forget which.) There's a simple test for this that involves lying on your side and raising a leg, but I don't think I can adequately explain it in text.

source: 10 months on crutches and a very tight it band.

"500"? Permit me to channel my secondary school chemistry teacher: 500 elephants? 500 biscuits? Units, lad! UNITS.

(Of course - I know you mean kg! But the point stands.)

pounds

500kg = 1102lbs; the list of people who can dl that is: Eddie Hall. AFAIK only 4-5 men have dl'd over 1k lbs ever (regulation height, no suit, not tire deadlifts or some bs) -- Benny, Eddie, Andy Bolton, Jerry Pritchett, Brian Shaw.

The list of 1000 pound squatters (no suit) is short too. Ed Coan, Malanichev, and a few others.

Anyone who can squat 500 lbs is strong. To depth, obviously -- lots of people can do 500 lbs knee bends.

Hash tag british humour.

Ordinarily I'd deploy hash tag that was the joke... but your reply in this instance was far too informative, and I'd run the risk (?) of looking (?) like (?) a twat.

whoosh

the sound of that joke going over my head =P

I have found that physiotherapists have been far more helpful for me in coping with chronic injuries than any doctor. I only wish I had met him far earlier in my life

Yes, it seems to me doctors have cures for a bunch of standard stuff that have been diagnosed over the years. If you have something that they don't know then you're on you're own and that's probably why there's such a huge alternative medicine market.

If they want to operate get a second opinion (at least), if you or someone in your family have something that you think is a problem then keep going to doctors till you find a solution. Don't just take the first doctors answer if they don't know.

If you're in the chronic pain or odd problem area though then if doctors can't help go the diet / alternative medicine route - they may have an answer.

There's a lot modern medicine doesn't know, and most practitioners don't know it all anyway.