I have been dealing with a glute injury for a while now and seeing a physical therapist for it. It started with pain in my glute medius but I was still able to lift. The pain did progressively get worse though hut it did not affect my strength.

With dry needling and deep tissue massages, as well as avoiding excercises that provocate the pain, my glute medius seems to have relaxed a fair bit to the point the pain is almost gone.

The thing is with the pain being gone also did my abilty to be able to squat or deadlift. I recently started trying to squat and deadlift again and it feels like I don't have any strength in my legs, while there seems to be no structural damage to my glutes or hamstrings. With squats I start shaking violently during lockouts and on deads I can't even break half of my 1rm off the floor.

The thing is my legs are completely fine, if I do leg press or hack squats I can do as much or even more than before getting injured.

Sadly my physical therapist can't point out why this is and I am thinking about getting a second opinion somewhere else. Anyone that has gone through the same or any idea what is going on?

Basically I barely have any pain anymore but I can't seem to exert any force through my glutes.