Left Side issues

[longhorngirl]

I'm hoping maybe somebody can help me and point me in the right direction here. I am active, work out with personal trainer regularly. I even have him stumped. A couple years ago when i started working out heavily with a trainer and lost quite a bit of weight primarily doing Kettlebells we noticed my left side was significantly weaker than my right. Specifically my left leg. So bad to the point that when trying to get up from one leg to standing position with left, it was impossible, with and without weight in hand. Right leg, no problem.

Then I took up running. Everything was fine but then started to get a pain in the outside of my my upper left leg. Almost feels like Sciatica I had when pregnant. Usually kicks in around the 2 mile mark.

Now I have developed some heel/arch pain on left foot, what appears to be plantar fasciitis. I'm going to check out getting some new shoes and inserts.

It seems all my issues are on my left side, never my right side.

The weak leg still bothers me, it inhibits me from doing some exercises.

Question is 1. Has anybody else experienced anything like this? 2. I am thinking of going to see a Dr. about this, but not sure what type of Dr to visit? Chiropractor? Sports Medicine?

Thanks for any advice!

[Heidi]

Hi
Definitely go and get your feet/running shoes checked. That's really important.
Your PT, or if not a physio/sports therapist/physical therapist should be able to assess you for muscle strengths and weaknesses and work out what specific muscles need strengthening/stretching.
Provided you don't get lower back pain and you have had no additional neural symptoms such as numbness, tingling etc then it is unlikely a nerve condition causing your one sided weakness. This doesn't however, mean that a nerve isn't bein compressed when you run etc. Piriformis is a really common one to cause sciatic type pain.