, and as you will probably be aware, healing occurs in two stages. Initially a thickened, inflexible scar join forms with nerve endings that rebel if stretched – causing pain. Only later does the scar tissue become more flexible and adapt to movement – so

UAN:151 Article type:--SymptomsYou’ll feel pain of course, particularly as you take off from the injured leg, and also after sleep when you first stretch the slightly-healed scar tissue that has formed overnight (a ‘drop-foot splint’ can keep

not be able to touch the painful area, as it is the back of the tendon near the patella which is most commonly affected. If you bend your knee, your doctor may be able to stretch the injured part – and it will hurt!Medical investigationsA soft-tissue x-ray may

unless the condition becomes chronic, with the risk of the scar changing to bone (myositis ossificans). An x-ray will confirm whether bone is forming within the scar tissue.What else could it be?Other causes of pain in the thigh are rare, though

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

healing occurs.The clotting process begins from the moment that bleeding occurs, as elements within the blood congeal and form fibrous scar tissue. This eventually reorganises itself, and the tissues can become almost as good as new, although much depends

My personal experience of attempting to run through an adductor injury was to lose six months of youthful running, thanks to inexperience. These injuries are slow to heal and over-enthusiasm may again risk scar tissue changing to bone. It is far better