Hello all, I am new here and hoping I could find some answers.

About two years ago in college, I developed a tightness inside the front of my hips at the bottom of my squats. At first it was just tightness. Shortly after, it turned into a pinching pain, just at the bottom of a squat, or with internal rotation. I was working as an accountant sitting on my ass all day; that is when the issues really developed. My hips began aching and burning all day, with the pinching getting more painful at the bottom of my squat.

I was able to squat 405 ass to grass about 8 months ago, until I had hernia surgery. Shortly after I recovered, I got sent to the police academy.

They made us sit ALL day for ten hours. You weren’t allowed to move unless they tell you to.

I developed sciatic pain in my right glute. My hips burn and ache all day, and I cannot do as much as an air squat without debilitating punching pain and sciatica in my glute. I can only assume it is from sitting all day.

We didn’t exercise in the academy, but I regularly trained an average of 2 hours a day, 6 days a week. I’m unable to deadlift or squat at this point. I get pain in the front of my hip, clicking and snapping in the sides, and sciatic pain..

I am now a police officer and out of the academy, so I am able to be active through the day, outside of the gym.

I apologize for the lengthy post.

Before my hernia surgery, I was squatting 405 and deadlifting 520, and now I’m too immobile to do those basic movements.

The only other thing I could think of is hernia surgery, or the fact I am flat footed, but I was once able to do all these movements without this kind of pain, so I am convinced the sitting destroyed me.

If anyone has any suggestions, please steer me in the right direction.

I’ve been rolling out with a foam roller and rolling my glutes with a LAX Ball every single day. It provides relief, but as soon as I have to sit for a full day, the pain comes back, even worse.