to almost any injury. If the pain hasn’t disappeared the next day, don’t try to run on it. The only time it can be beneficial to run through pain is during rehabilitation when you may need to overcome a little initial stiffness to regain the muscle

pronation, thousands of times in a runner, causing inflammation." Sudden increases in mileage or excessive hill running or speedwork can lead to Achilles tendinitis. This tendon also has a low blood supply, making it slow to heal. If ‘acute’ Achilles

ASICS Pro Team Physiotherapist Sarah Connors recently joined us for a webchat on beating injury. Catch up on the highlights here.Sarah is a chartered physiotherapist who has specialised in treating track and field athletes for the past 20 years

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

barbell. Oops.I became obsessed with what the human knee can and cannot do when one of mine shut down after a couple of days of modest runs over a nearby hill. The technical name for my injury was patellofemoral pain syndrome, otherwise known as PFPS

.Medical treatmentIf you get no relief, your doctor may very occasionally inject steroid, or even immobilise the leg in plaster. Physiotherapy to ease the pain should not be used as a cover to increase training.Can you run through it?/ Recovery timeAlthough full

When your lower-back muscles are weak, you are more likely to suffer from nagging pain, bad posture or below-par running. To keep this critical ‘core’ area strong, you need to strengthen and stretch the erector spinae muscle group. The following

how to develop and use them. Other forms of physiotherapy will ease PFP, but controlled exercises form the mainstay of treatment. Can you run through it?/Recovery timeWithin certain limits, the more you do the correct knee-strengthening exercises

RW members for some time!)My HistoryI'm female, born 4.4.63I was first told never to run when I was 17 and suffering from constant bruising on the shins with extreme shin splints. So long as I never pushed myself speedwise – nor went above 15 miles

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