worsening what can be a very long, drawn-out and chronic injury. Spend your time cycling instead. This will exercise your heart and stretch scar tissue more gently and regularly.Recovery time There is a high risk of reinjury if treatment is overenthusiastic
, the quicker your recovery will be. As for running through it, masochists will have no problem, though probably at the ultimate cost of a worn patella, potential arthritis and other injuries through favouring the limb. Treating the injury makes a lot more sense
UAN:198 Article type:--Runners and injuries are frequent bedfellows. If you run long enough or often enough, you will almost inevitably run your way into a problem. Some, of course, are unavoidable, but a large majority are self inflicted
, physiotherapy and rehabilitation are vital to gain full, pain-free function.Can you run through it?/Recovery timeRunning through a meniscal injury is an open invitation to long-term disability. Following arthroscopic treatment you would hope to be fully
-based rescue service. But that can just be the beginning. Because it's then that runners are reminded - or in the case of someone who's not been running long, it's a dawning realisation - that being a runner is a key part of their life, their very identity
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of running can lead to swelling within the lower leg’s compartments, which house its muscles, tendons and nerves. “When you run for a long time, a compartment can swell up and essentially choke off the blood vessels that run to the nerves in the foot,” says
Having already suffered the consequences of overdoing it too soon, this week’s questioner is desperate to avoid future injury by spending time warming up before – and cooling down after – every training run. Trouble is, conflicting opinions on when
and prolong recovery, making it important to diagnose a stress fracture early, as anti-inflammatories are a typical treatment of other lower-leg injuries.Exercise-induced compartment syndrome can also cause lower-leg pain. The repetitive nature of running can
Injury is the most common reason for runners retiring from the sport, especially as far too many attempt to run through pain without thought for the consequences. Chronic injuries that is, long-standing ones are invariably more difficult
