UAN:203 Article type:--Many is the runner who has finished training or a race with a pain somewhere in the ankle. You don’t remember injuring it, but it certainly hurts when you position it a certain way or put weight on it at a particular angle

(and stay) pain-free.Exercises designed specifically to strengthen and stretch the tissues of the feet and ankles are not as easy to devise as those targeting the larger muscles, and your local gym is unlikely to have equipment designed for the task

You might be able to run through a tight hamstring or a sore quad, but an injured foot or ankle usually puts the brakes on a session – and can ruin your entire training season. Our feet and ankles, after all, are the foundation of our sport. When

UAN:204 Article type:--SymptomsYou must have experienced ankle sprains before – an awkward footplant, followed by a sickening pain as your ankle twists inward and the agony of any further movement.SignsFollowing the injury, rapid bruising

lost balance and trod on a bottle that some kind soul had unwittingly discarded in the middle of the road. My ankle turned over and one loud expletive later I was left nursing a very painful and rapidly swelling right ankle. Hoping to 'run it off' I

Q I’d only been running for a few months when I noticed a twinge down the outside of my left ankle, which was accompanied by some swelling. After a two-week rest I started to run again, but within three days the ankle was again very painful. An X

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Q I have a triple injury. First I got a pain under my hip, then a swollen ankle and now a pain in the back of my knee. All on the right side. I recently switched from trail to road running – could it be due to the camber?A There could be two

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, but the joints do get knocked out of place,” he says. “This leads to the muscles around the joints becoming strained and tense and this tension moves down into Watts’s buttocks and hamstrings, and even down into the calf and ankle.” This leg pain caused