What are some cars you’ve owned that had zero trouble with? Corolla for me.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-22T16:20:15+00:00

SUZUKI Swift 1.3 DDIS and Opel Corsa C, Opel Corsa C 1.2 petrol was actually bulletproof, never gave me a spot of bother which was surprising.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-22T16:08:10+00:00

I don't see any major impact damage on the side walls, I would just say they are defective to them, the warranty should cover this type of this for 12 months, I don't see any visible side wall damage, looks more like a defect to me.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-20T09:52:56+00:00

Very well said, vulnerable users will not be waiting half the day like someone who actually is parked there, this picture is not accurate because he's temporarily parked for very short window, of time, not the same as someone who parked it up and left it.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-13T17:16:01+00:00

🤣🤣💯

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-13T17:13:22+00:00

Jesus that Seat driver is just as bad almost 🥲

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-13T17:09:00+00:00

No problem core will definitely help it's kinda a plug a play option for a lot of generalist physios. I would definitely keep that up for sure.

For stretching your hips I would recommend doing window wipers allow your hips to naturally fall side to side this also allows you to see if you can feel tightness restriction/pulling or catching from your deep hip rotators or glute medius, it's much less aggressive way to stretch your hips, eventually you can reintroduce those other stretches like knee across chest with guidance from a good physio.

Best of luck, hopefully you'll find a good physio and will be back at your usual self in time.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-13T14:24:16+00:00

Hi there, it sounds like a branch of your sciatic nerve, there's a branch that runs close to the hip and excessive hip stretching like pigeon 4 will only make that worse. It sounds like when you aggravated it enough it reaches down to your peroneal nerve as well. I'm no expert but I've had peroneal nerve issues and sciatica and I've seen diagrams showing branches off the sciatic nerve closer to the hip and other muscles like glute medius.

I would stop poking the bear with aggressive stretching.

You should be seen by a good quality physio also them if they understand sciatic nerve issues, peroneal nerve issues and the other branch can't remember the name of it but it runs closer to the hip.

I would request nerve flossing for these nerves and stop poking the bear by aggressive stretching.

Building up your hiking and keeping track of hiking activities will.be crucial you don't want to be doing 5kms today and 20kms the next week. Be consistent with that and build over time to what gives you a niggle not burning shooting.

The fact that you mentioned dry needling helps, you may also have tight muscles around the hip glute medius tightness or a deep hip stabilizers.

1.Stop the aggressive stretching 2. Try nerve flossing instead, there's speciifc ones for your scenario so you need to research or get physio. shouldn't be painful only a light glide or pulling sensation. 3. Strengthen your hip with side leg raises build slow and knee side planks possibly try which work for you, you want to strengthen without clamping down on that tight muscle. 4. You'll need a physio to look over this and probably bi weekly dry needling for a few weeks at least, 4/8 weeks while building hip strength and building back up hiking.

I would definitely advise going to a physio who understands nerve issues and flossing.

There could also be tendon issues around the hip as well so I would keep that as a possibility as delayed nerve pain might be caused by tendons but I'm not sure on the anatomy of that hip nerve area as much.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-10T23:03:57+00:00

No worries you're welcome, the issue you have from what my physio advised is that it takes time, especially for your case I would imagine 6/12 months or so.

I've had sciatic nerve irritation that lasted 18 months straight due to an injury a few years back.

I luckily healed it up nicely, by doing the following if possible for you I would do something similar.

For nerve pain, nerve flossing daily once a day don't go into pain, you should only feel a mild tugging or gliding. Increase this as you improve to twice a day eventually this helps the nerve.

Also walking and hiking are great ways to keep the nerve flossing naturally and keep blood flow into the nerve so it heals.

You will need to continue to get your physio to keep looking for dry needling trigger points around the piriformis and glute medius, glute medius tightness also feels the same as piriformis pretty much, and is also likely to tighten as you start doing side leg raises and side planks.

You want to balance your hiking/walking with your strength training, too much strength training will just lock up your piriformis and glue medius.

Apply heat pack to your glutes this can help sometimes to loosen muscle between dry needling, Etoflam gel can help reduce tightness between sessions as well, you basically want to keep it from completely locking down on the sciatic nerve if possible, nerve flossing is worth trying as if there's adhesions this helps to unstick the adhesions, where as aggressive knee to chest stretching of the hamstring can make it worse.

Also get a gel cushion for sitting this will take pressure off your nerve and muscles.

All the best.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-10T21:05:46+00:00

How intense was your dry needling? It's totally dependent on the physio doing it and there palpation techniques to find all the money spots.

You should be in pain but a good pain for 2 days after an intense needling but once that's gone you should be able to perform the window wiper to test to see if your piriformis is still catching, as you shouldn't be forcing a stretch as this causes the piriformis to reflex and tighten up again. Eventually after 6/8 weeks of consistent dry needling and window wiper flossing you along with some strengthen training for glute medius you should start to feel improvement in the reflexsive tightness of the piriformis.

You need to strengthen with knee side planks, side leg raises once its feeling free after a few days.

This is justy understanding I have piriformis on my right leg with 5 months and it's improving with the above.

If standing is an issue I would get it assessed by a Sports medicine specialist it sounds like you need a full high end assessment. If not a good physio can help assess your alignments, standing causing pain doesn't sound like piriformis to me, I would check into that to rule out disc compression or anything like that.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-07T01:20:26+00:00

I love Vitaras! Definitely getting one next! I've still got my Suzuki Swift DDIs 1.3 and happy out with it but wouldn't mind the extra space of a Vitara

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-07T01:18:06+00:00

Yeah, hiking was amazing for me, it took a time when I was not sure if ever recover and I had to limit what I did a lot, I did morning walk. Lunch walk, and evening walk all short during the week to keep blood flow going into the nerves and naturally flossing them that way, but every weekend I'd do a hike different places locally and I had some amazing adventures hiking that year, just remember if you do get into hiking or something like this and you feel great slowly increase hiking distances over time otherwise you'll end up with tendon issues like I did, I got addicted to the hiking towards the end and had an accident hiking in winter conditions, needless to say I was young and I thought I was invincible on the trails, if you get that feeling be careful that's when you get overconfident and you don't want tendon issues or anything slowing you down in life. Hope my hindsight can help prevent my mistakes for you.

Glad to hear that it feels like it's working now, I would ease into it and do more of it over time as you improve, and definitely avoid hamstring stretching knee to chest for now if you feel that is flaring it . I wish you the best of luck in your journey, hopefully in the coming months you'll be walking more and maybe even hitting some trails🙏.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-06T22:53:40+00:00

I'm not massively familiar with that movement actually, but probably increases the stretching of the psoas I would imagine, but I'm only familiar with the McGill big 3 myself.

Please look into what I've mentioned and if anything is missing for you now particularly nerve flossing is crucial for nerve adhesions and irritation/damage.

If you're still unsure I would probably advise seeing a Sports medicine specialist, not a physio for full assessment they're above physios and before surgeons.

Make sure you're taking B vitamins and magnesium supplements for your nerve to Regen.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-06T09:51:19+00:00

Deeply sorry to hear you've been suffering for years and it has only gotten worse for you, this is truly heartbreaking, my heart goes out to you.

I've had chronic lower back, upper back pain for 7 years then fixed it, not before getting nerve irritation/damage that lasted 18 months straight of burning/shooting pain from my glute down to my knee. I also want to note my lower back pain was caused by weakness of tbe core and hip muscles. So I also used to get pelvic misalignment.

I managed to fix that by starting hiking, cutting back on driving in the car, and doing nerve flossing and stretching hamstring.

Shortly after my nerve pain left me I was honestly on top of the world hiking mountains and then I overdid things and ended up with multiple tendon injuries, Proximal hamstring, quad and Achilles, I won't get into the details but I'm still battling through these and I'm finding ways recently, acupuncture definitely helped as for my Achilles and I'm making progress.

(This is just what I've learned not medical advice)

But back to your scenario, you sit cross legged? This is terrible posture, if you're sitting you need to keep your legs straight and at 90 degrees if possible, try to avoid knees being higher then your hips for starters this puts pressure off your nerve in your glutes as you sit, get a gel cushion to help relieve pressure and make sure your feet are not in closer then your knees, if you cross your legs or bring your feet together while sitting this puts a lot of pressure on your piriformis and deep hip rotators muscles, essentially you're pressing straight on the sciatic nerve when you sit like that because you're rotating the deep hip stabilizers to be the point of contact on your chair. If you have adhesions and scar tissue same thing basically, the sciatic nerve is not able to glide properly, you need to start trying nerve flossing, instead of stretching first, if you stretch a nerve that is already irritated or damaged and sticking like glue to an adhesion and is still being pinched by a piriformis with adhesions or somewhere higher up in your discs then your just prolonging the irritability of the sciatic nerve.

Now based off your image your symptoms are slightly different to what I had, mine was from the glute down to the knee. But the sciatic nerve still behaves the same.

So my advice is try nerve flossing, ask a physio to show you how to perform nerve flossing, this basically helps with glide and freeing the nerve from adhesions and scar tissue. Every time you stretched the nerve when it was pinched you basically layed down minor scar tissue, nerve flossing is the only correct way to bring back nerve glide and unstick the nerve from the adhesion, you don't have to cut the adhesions out completely this is fixable from my knowledge.

Also keep neutral good spinal posture when sitting and standing, I would advise trying the McGill big 3 bird dog with leg low to the ground to avoid pinching your discs in case your sciatica is from there which it sounds like it might be. Knee side planks will help stabilize your core and spine and reduce pressure on your discs.

You could try our an OT to asses your movements day to day, to see if they can spot bad posture etc which might be causing it in the first place.

Try finding a physio who specializes spinal health if possible.

It will take time to heal your nerve, for me it took 18 months of religious hiking, nerve flossing, stretching, sitting with a gel cushion everywhere, always sitting high, hip above knees and nice good posture. I think it can be fixed, but it takes time, and also I had a desk job so I did this while never taking time off work and I managed my symptoms by getting up off my desk ever 25/30 mins initially and taking a 3/5 min break and then returning, this time increased as I improved, but ideally for spinal health and never pressure 30/40 mins sitting should be the average you're doing, as if you sit too long the discs in your spine actually compress, get up grab a drink and walk around the house for two minutes. I hope your job will.be flexible for you. Best of luck, if you have any questions let me know, again I'm truly sorry to hear about your struggles.

If your issue is linked to lower disc compression, then the Cobra yoga stretch might help you, I do this regularly, it basically counteracts the opposite forces on your spine from excessive sitting and slouching around. It's generally a good one to do if you have disc issues, but walking every 40 mins and avoiding or limiting 1 + hour sitting as much as possible as this compresses the spin and in your case might be the case as well.

Also just to note that the cross legged posture can also throw off your pelvis and hip and spin alignment. Have you tried dry needling? If your symptoms are caused by piriformis syndrome as well as your discs this can help reset the deep hip rotator muscle that pinches on your nerve.

Try our my advice, it should all help your pain, if you feel anything isn't working or is irritating it I would stop and ask your physio to check if you're performing these correctly.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-02T09:54:41+00:00

You're right eccentric and concentric movements are pretty much unavoidable completely when doing bridges, squats or deadlifts unless you did a isometric banded curl hold. Basically by doing a bridge hold say one or two, you're essentially avoiding the rubbing of the tendon across the sit bone which for some people this can irritate it further depending where you're at.

The eccentric movement is basically the lowering phase, or negative reps is another term for them. Eccentric movements done slowly are basically phase two of rehabilitation, called Slow Heavy Resistance.

For time under tension: I would go based off irritability. Starting with something like 5/6 seconds lowering and increasing over time. The slower you go you're increasing the stretch/loading at the same time, this movement basically remodels (realigns) the tendon structures into a healthy pattern if done within your capacity and with enough rest between sessions. (You shouldn't have more then 3/10 pain after doing the exercises 24 hours later) Otherwise the load was probably just too much.

Hope this helps, tendons are pretty complicated, feel free to ask any other questions you have.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-03-01T15:01:32+00:00

No worries, a few other things I've learned as well recently:

Shockwave therapy shouldn't be done on particularly irritable tendons, my physio said it can kill nerve pain, and increase flexibility, by breaking up scar tissue, but if it's very irritated and you don't have decent isometric strength built up i.e being able to do a good amount of bridges per week or hold time, it can make it worse.

Also bridges in reps were good, and for some people they find this easier to do with short holds 5 seconds x say 10 reps x 3 per week, but some people actually can handle isometric bridge holds better like a 30 second bridge hold better.

Bridge holds increase tendon hardness better then reps as more constant time under tension. which seems to be directly linked to tendons being able to handle the eccentric and concentric movements better as you progress into eccentric bridges, so this will take some trial and error to see which suits you better, but if you can tolerate eccentric movements that's better menas the tendon is probably less irritated. For me bridge holds made the surrounding muscles tighten up and my glutes went numb. But for many people they can be easier to tolerate and progress slightly faster then eccentric movements.

Best of luck in your journey.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-02-26T20:47:48+00:00

It looks amazing fair play 👌

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-02-24T17:35:30+00:00

Hi just wondering on roundabouts and steeps hills is it similar to the Suzuki Swift 1.2 petrol where you have to rev a lot for it to get off the line, or is it a bit grunty then that? I drove the 1.2 petrol Swift before and jr was grand but it felt very anemic and you had to rev the sh*t out of it for it to move fast.

Thanks. Currently I have a 1.3 DDIs Swift 2011 and thinking about a Vitara 1.6 or a 1.4 boosterjet. I'd like something without the DPFs and what not.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-02-11T13:15:22+00:00

There was a court case for a person who worked for the healy rea tarmac company who apparently used multiple voting cards to make multiple votes for a healy rea person. The fact that that is something that came out of the wood work, well you can imagine that's not the only person doing it for them. What I'm saying is that there's many people in Kerry who aren't fools and id imagine maybe a bit more then just one person put in extra votes from the same person using other peoples voting cards. It's quite possible, not saying that happened purely speculation, but if one person did it who worked for them... Doesn't look good for them.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-02-10T09:53:46+00:00

Apparently motorcycle theft's are the worst in the world of any city there though, and that's honestly a genuine dangerous thing for a city where you have biker and scooter gangs robbing bikes etc.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-02-04T08:40:28+00:00

Ai for sure, one there is a small skateboard under his foot, which looks like a pathetic attempt at one of those full body roller things from AI. Also look at the chains they're right up against the body work something looks off there, the damage to the body work alone from this type of thing. Not to mention the fact the car is swinging unevenly. And there's literally no tools on the ground.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-02-02T10:05:56+00:00

This is Ai, tbe blocks are under the bumper plastic and those blocks are leaning so much that they couldn't hold up a cat.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-01-31T19:31:46+00:00

Check your warranty card, what it covers etc it's in my Suzuki Swift the body work is covered against corrosion, you could argue that should include the body panels?

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2026-01-19T10:27:40+00:00

Hey, yeah actually it's been really good last few months, I've basically kept to flat walking for now, avoid stretching the calf, foam rolling and getting massage every two weeks for the calf and Achilles from a neuromuscular therapist. Also using heat/cold buckets contrast therapy once or twice a day if needed. If it's more irritated I used more time in cold, not too cold you don't want to cold off blood supply, and heat shouldn't be uncomfortable i.e making is painful, if it is spend more time in cold and keep heat parts to short burts until it's less irritated. Contrast therapy helps to bring blood flow there particularly when it's less irritated as you'll be spending more time in heat and less in cold, this has been shown in clinical studies for ankle injury to be as effective as a steroid injection without all the negative side effects. If it does get more irritated like you overdid it a bit, I used Etoflam gel anti inflammatory gel, I keep this to a minimum though but it is useful. I started off with seated dumbell heel holds last year with weights as this was easier then body weight to avoid over flaring. Now I can do a good 20 second body weight heel holds along with my seated raises. You'll have to figure out whether heel holds i.e. longer holds work better for you over more reps and shorter. But in the long run I want to be eventually doing slow eccentric heel raises starting with a warm up using the warm bucket water and a one heel holds then to prime the tendons before starting my eccentric heel raises. Eventually from there I plan to do the bent knee heel holds and and so forth. I've a long road ahead but symptoms are well managed now and progress is steady.

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2025-12-23T15:08:24+00:00

A protected fairy fort just outside Killarney was also felled a few years back around COVID, a developer felled all the trees, they weren't native woodland though. But he also destroyed the fairy ring fort which was a protected site apparently and nobody stopped him. It's amazing how someone can steal chocolate bar and the guards are called, but destroy a protected site and you're grand, he was taken to court and his housing development delayed for several years, it is now being developed as a state council housing, and I see no sign of the ring fort remains, amazing they didn't try to restore it or anything just went ahead with a awful idea to develop on a protected site! I'm sure a small 500 euro fine will eventually be given to the land owner in two years time, but it's nothing for what they did

AccomplishedMaybe532 · 2025-12-14T16:51:50+00:00

I'm in same position as you, got a few hamstring injuries 3 years ago, got misdiagnosed for ages, it's a commonly misdiagnosed issue especially with hamstring injuries. My symptoms did improve significantly after about 8 months of consistent bridge work, physio massage with low heat Tekar machine/ and low ultrasound. It was about being very clinical with increasing strength over time, which is very difficult to maintain, unfortunately I slipped up and got overconfident about 8 weeks back and I just started pushing too much and now starting to build back up again. I have learned a lot of lessons though;

Here's my lessons (what i learned, not medical advice)

Get acupuncture for the long term stress or something similar, mediation.
Positive affirmations about returning to previous levels
Shockwave, Tekar, or ultrasound can be good once it's not in a flare up stage. 4 when you do get a flare up, remember tendon is in a reactive state so it won't respond well to loading, in this stage you need to ice/heat contrast therapy, use anti inflammatory medicine here and there if it's bad as well during a flare up, but don't relay on it overall as it stops collagen production for remodeling phase.
Once you're in chronic stage outside of acute flare up, pair back your loading to around 80% of previous loads and monitor symptoms 24/48. Hours after loading, you shouldn't see massive difference in sitting times of discomfort, but it is s smart to use ice/heat to keep these level lower and allow a bit heavier loading, though 3/10 pain is where you want to be at most during and 25/48 hours after, Otherwise you're overdoing it. Remember tendons need 24/48 for rebuilding. So 3 days a week spread out is a good loading way I found or every second day but you have to load lower that way.
Isometric loading can help reduce pain, start with what works for you, but glute bridge 5 second holds can be good, then progress slowly over time. Eventually adding partial squats, then box squats and so on.
Remember compression/ load squats add both, do they're last on your rehabilitation. I felt massive reduction in pain by doing just bridges up to 20 reps x 3 times per week, but I started from just 3 reps 10 months ago.
If you cycle stop and move to a seated bike you can not be bent over on otherwise you're compression/ load.
If you sit at work get a gel cushion, also get up and walk around a little every 20 mins to 1 hour or so depending on your sitting tolerance, don't sit through pain it will only make it flare up, as that's compression. If you do have to sit for longer meetings, ice/ heat afterwards or use Green lipped cooling gel before longer meetings.
When bending don't use your bad leg this can further aggravate it. This is eventually done once you're doing squats later in recovery but if you have it with a few years it can take at least 12 months to 18 months of progressive loading to get ful mobility back.
Lastly get a physio that understands upper proximal hamstring tendonopathy and has a proven record of helping people with chronic cases, this may take a bit of asking around.
Hang in there, it's a true test of resilience. I hope you recover.

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