Podiatry 101
Saw the podiatrist yesterday and he said the foot/ankle injury was hopefully just a flexor tendon or retinaculum strain. If not then was likely to be a stress fracture of the navicular or talus.
He gave me a stretch to do a couple of times a day and said I should resume normal training including speedwork - yay! But to totally avoid hills for at least the next week - double yay! The tell tale sign of a stressie would be pain when running and/or pain when inactive, and so I've got to take note of all that before seeing him again next Tuesday.
He's making me new orthotics, the existing ones are over 4 years old and may have contributed to the injury. They are the 3/4 length ones and as they are getting worn out, he wonders if the left one was slipping a bit. My new ones will be full length.
I went for a test drive this morning. Clairie was planning a steady 12k from The Regatta, that sounded perfect to me. If my foot did start hurting and I had to stop I wouldn't be too far from home. It was a great morning for a run, and was especially nice when the rain started.
A couple of kms from the finish I had a tiny bit of pain but nothing too drastic. Whew :-)
Canberra training will resume with a vengeance!
He gave me a stretch to do a couple of times a day and said I should resume normal training including speedwork - yay! But to totally avoid hills for at least the next week - double yay! The tell tale sign of a stressie would be pain when running and/or pain when inactive, and so I've got to take note of all that before seeing him again next Tuesday.
He's making me new orthotics, the existing ones are over 4 years old and may have contributed to the injury. They are the 3/4 length ones and as they are getting worn out, he wonders if the left one was slipping a bit. My new ones will be full length.
I went for a test drive this morning. Clairie was planning a steady 12k from The Regatta, that sounded perfect to me. If my foot did start hurting and I had to stop I wouldn't be too far from home. It was a great morning for a run, and was especially nice when the rain started.
A couple of kms from the finish I had a tiny bit of pain but nothing too drastic. Whew :-)
Canberra training will resume with a vengeance!
posted by Tesso at 8:12 AM
12 Comments:
Cool Tesso. It almost turned out better than my image of your Doctor's vist.
Tesso: Ohh , my foot really "kills" Doc.
Doc: Well stay away from "hills".
Tesso: That's it! your service is certainly no "frills".
Doc: Alright then take some of these "pills".
Tesso: Will these cure my "ills" doc?
Doc: Yes, my mother didn't raise no "dills".
Glad it went well Tesso (if not quite like Scott's rendition, inventive though it is!).
I'm jealous, for me not to run up hills I'd have to move house!
I'll ask you not to say the words "stress" and "fracture" in the same sentence please.
That sounds interesting Tesso. I am suffering from some small ankle pain at the moment and it was good to see the foot cut-away picture.
Its like grade 9 biology all over again.
That's great that its the less sinister of possible injuries. Yippee for you :-).
I guess that is why you listen to him and not me "run it off" .... so far the scoreboard reads, Specialist 3 - Toast 0
Is that all you have to do to get out of hill sessions? Geez. If I'd known it was that easy... :-)
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I don't believe in Podiatrists anymore (mine was an Olympian to boot)
He told me i shouldn't ever run after about four visits....
3 years later,no orthotics.Nuff said.
I like the pro's that let you run on. Let's all hope it's just a little strainie thingie not a baddie bonie thingie - that's waht they called it when i went school...
I'm glad you posted a couple of images. I've only just mentioned in my blog that my left heel is giving me some grief. I now know that it's my left Calcaneus Cuboid.
Great news.
Sounds like a strain.
If it was a stressie it should hurt each time you run and it gets worse on each run as you increase the frature. Well that was my expperience. Take it easy you have plenty of time to have a easy week or so and still get into reasonable shape. If you push too hard too soon you will blow that small window of opportunity to recover.
Thanks for the lesson in foot biology. Bloody complex things aren't they. Here's to a quick recovery and on with the show...
If everyone sees those drawings I will no longer get away with my ususal technical explanation, "sore.... foot... there...".
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