I am starting to feel like a bad parent.
My daughter hurt her back, about 10 weeks ago, while pole vaulting. There was no obvious incident which led to an injury - she said it just gradually started feeling more and more painful throughout the competition. The assumption was that she had twisted her back a little at one point a pulled a muscle slightly.
We did the normal ice and rest, and I took her to a sports therapist, attached to her club, a few days later. He said there was a bit of muscle tenderness but nothing major and to rest for a couple of weeks and then slowly reintroduce her training. Which we did (although she is not very good at resting).
It still hurts her. It is not too bad as she goes around everyday activities, but as soon as she does anything "exercise-y" it starts to ache again. So long jump, pole vault, dance, shot put, all the things she loves to do cause her pain.
I can't help feeling a simple pulled muscle should be better by now - I am going to make her an appointment to see someone today. My automatic inclination is to go for a physio, but I am aware that stress fractures are not unheard of in young athletes who pole vault... so should we be going to the go instead? Or maybe both?
Writing this out has made me beer more in the direction of both ... any thoughts, please?