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kx250rider
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My guess is you hit a vein, and caused a deep muscle hematoma. Those hurt, and take a couple weeks to disappear. If you start seeing black & blue on your leg, no panic; that's normal after a deep muscle hematoma starts to go away. The bruising will take another week or 2, and will go away.
If that's what happened, you might have gone too low or too far to the middle of the glute. You need to be in the middle of the upper outer qudrant of the glute, to get the least chance of hitting vessels and nerves. You probably have read about that already, but for others reading this, you can make a cross on either your left or right glute, and that gives you 4 squares of area. Use the upper outer one only to pin. Basically it's on the part where the arse rounds to the side of your hip, and an inch or so below the hip bone.
I always use 1.5" needles for glutes, and unless you're really REALLY lean (like 6' @ 110 lbs or something), a 1" needle is only going to put the oil a quarter or half inch into the muscle. No good!
Charles
If that's what happened, you might have gone too low or too far to the middle of the glute. You need to be in the middle of the upper outer qudrant of the glute, to get the least chance of hitting vessels and nerves. You probably have read about that already, but for others reading this, you can make a cross on either your left or right glute, and that gives you 4 squares of area. Use the upper outer one only to pin. Basically it's on the part where the arse rounds to the side of your hip, and an inch or so below the hip bone.
I always use 1.5" needles for glutes, and unless you're really REALLY lean (like 6' @ 110 lbs or something), a 1" needle is only going to put the oil a quarter or half inch into the muscle. No good!
Charles
