Gristle-like feeling?

[Jeremy]

I hope I spelled that right~ I have a client who has what I call a "gristle-like feel" to some tissue lateral to the ASIS but superior to TFL. It doesn't feel muscular at all but very much like lumpy, solid connective tissue. It was not present on her other side. She reviews pain in the area and describes it as a "bruised bone". Is this congested fascia?

 

[Sheetal]

That's a good possibility. Or, it could be really tense tissue in the obliques, etc.

OR, there's this possibility..........

One of my clients, a local dairy farmer had a similar feeling area over his R lateroposterior hip region a year ago......... his turned out to be a torn muscle from trying to help "right" a cow that had gotten down on frozen ground w/ her head lower than her feet and couldn't stand back up.

Do you have any idea if there was any unusual movement, an accident, etc that may have preceded the tissue developing that "texture"?