HIP INJURY:
I fell on my hip while riding my bicycle about six years ago.  It took a while for the scrape to heal, and from then until just a few weeks ago I had this lump in my left hip.  Didn't really hurt, but my hips were definately different shapes.  About the beginning of March I started to have these severe pains in my left hip and leg during yoga, which felt more like a muscle tear or stretched ligament.  This went on for about three weeks, and then suddenly cleared up.  Now that my leg feels normal again, my hips are the same shape again.  The tissue mass in my left hip is gone!

ANKLE INJURY:
I severely sprained my left ankle a couple years ago.  Took more than a month for me to start walking nearly normally again, but there was always a feeling of weakness in my left ankle.  I started yoga in October of last year and one of the things yoga brought to my attention was that I carried a lot of my weight with my right leg, still favored my left leg. 

Then in December I again sprained the left ankle.  Could barely walk, really limped severely.  Went to a doctor who said I had four choices - Limp through it, a brace, a cast for four weeks to immobilize it or cortizone shots.  I chose to limp through it and continued to do yoga (I could put weight on it, it hurt when I took weight off of it).  It affected some of my postures, especially the balancing series, because there were certain points in my balance that my body tried to avoid to keep from experiencing pain.  Asa suggested being right next to the wall and leaning my left side against the wall when necessary. 

Over the course of several weeks my ankle healed to the point where it is as solid as it was before I sprained it originally!  Now I'm working through re-balancing my weight so that I don't carry more with my right side anymore.  It is starting to happen and I feel so much more even and strong and balanced.  There are days when I have so much energy I don't know what to do with it all!!

Specific Improvements:
I initially noticed how I was carrying more of my weight with my right side versus my left, and then I resprained my ankle again.  So in my case, the condition actually got worse before it started getting better.  The improvements were gradual over several weeks, and then I went through reusing atrophied muscles in new ways which was painful in a different way, but now the ankle is back to original strength and I am starting to feel balanced again.

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