Q I’m a 17-year-old middle-distance runner. Last year I started growing really fast and reached 6ft 6in. Now I regularly experience pains in my upper arms, hamstrings and thighs after harder runs. My GP says I should stretch more, while my coach

’ll feel crescendo pain, which grows in intensity the longer and further you run, probably reaching an intolerable peak just before you stop. In the textbook case, the pain comes on sooner and more severely with each successive run.Signs It’s important

UAN:214 Article type:--Symptoms You’ll feel pain down the side of the nail of the big toe (hallux), especially to the touch.Signs The signs are obvious – and unpleasant. There’ll be reddening, festering and ultimately discharge of pus, caused

"Aerobic exercise and its impact on musculoskeletal pain in older adults: a 14-year prospective, longitudinal study." It compared the runners, who averaged about 26 miles a week, to a matched set of controls, who averaged about two miles a week. The authors

to straighten me out. And while I am now satisfied that pain does not exist, I’m having a hard time convincing certain wayward elements in my non-existent body. Take my right hamstring, for instance. It all began 20 years ago when I fell down the lighthouse

some advice from you. I had this baby, like my first, by Caesarean section.A This sort of pain is often known as the ‘lumbo-pelvic conundrum’. This is because pain which appears to be coming from the sacro-iliac joint at the back of the pelvis can

. The most likely cause? Very long runs in ill-fitting shoes. "There should be 1cm between the end of the shoe and the longest toe, with the toes neither crowded nor slipping around," says Prior. The toenail may fall off, or grow with a horizontal ridge

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.“It’s me back,” muttered Big Ron. “It hasn’t been right since London.”Good Lord, someone had actually run a race! Perhaps there was hope for us yet!“You never told me you were doing the London, Ron. How did you get on?”“Not this year,” he snapped. “1996.”“1994

Your feet take 18,000 steps every day on average. When you run you'll add to that figure, as well as the amount of perspiration produced by the 250,000 sweat glands on each foot. With stresses like that it's no wonder your feet complain from time