My Leg’s Been Hurting After Splits

Hello, I’d like to start by saying that I used to do yoga and because of that I was somewhat flexible(flexible enough to be able to do the splits in one of my legs). After a while with NOTHING, no yoga, no stretching, no nothing, I started getting back into it because I started doing figure skating. I started doing stretch routines, and all of that, and I tried doing the splits again, and surprisingly to me, I was able to, I just had to do it slowly(but it hurt).

However, one day, I went to the gym, and because my little gym buddies were there, I wanted to show off, so I started doing my stretching and I FELL into the splits REALLY fast. No warm up. No nothing. Just FELL into the splits. I heard the loudest CRACKING noise I have EVER heard coming out of my body that day, and for a moment I wondered "hey, did I break something?", but that’d be ridiculous cuz I could still walk and do my exercises like nothing.

It’s been a month now, and I am still kind of sore of it. I can’t do the splits on that leg anymore and I feel like maybe something serious might’ve happened, but I am poor and have no money to go the doctor. Like I’m fine enough to walk and stand on that leg but it HURTS whenever I’m doing my stretching routine(I’m still able to do it and if I’d say it, I’d say it hurts like a 6 on a scale of 1-10).