caused the injury – is out.Medical treatmentThis is as much psychological as physical – you need constant reassurance that time (probably about six weeks) will heal the injury. A plaster cast is rarely required. Biomechanical gait analysis may prevent

to prevent another fracture should you have a similar accident again.Runners are plagued by the stress fracture – to picture one, think of a crack in a china cup. The fracture occurs as a result of overuse and repeated stress to a bone, and the broken

can ease apart scarred, healing tissues while the cooling effect continues to provide capilliary contraction and prevent further bleeding. Ice is the most valuable, yet least used and understood, method of healing sports injuries.C is for Compression

may culminate in surgery to reunite severed ligaments and prevent the ankle persistently giving way.Can you run through it?See below.Recovery timeSix hours to six months, depending on the severity of the sprain and how intensively you treat

UAN: 201 Article type:-->The majority of people possess both anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments, which form an X-shaped structure through the middle of the joint, their function being to prevent fore and aft movement of the tibia

Patrick Milroy, RW Medical Advisor