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Bodyworks: Stress Fractures
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 15:58:57
How to recognise them, how to overcome them

that your GP listens to your description, for there is often little to feel at the site of the fracture. A ‘pinch test’ can confirm a stress fracture of the calcaneus (heel bone) earlier than you’d be able to feel the swelling of healing callus in the tibia

Bodyworks: Achilles Rupture
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 13:31:14
How to recognise it, how to overcome it

toes.SignsYou’ll probably find that the area swells or has visible blood under the skin, and that a Thompson’s Test (in which the doctor squeezes your calf while you lie face-down with your lower leg hanging off the couch) won’t produce foot movement

Bodyworks: Bunion (Hallux valgus)
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 14:12:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it

of the joint is filled by a thick-walled bursa – the bunion. Bunion-sufferers often lose their transverse arch under the metatarsal heads, which exaggerates the problem.Medical investigationsAn x-ray is unnecessary, and blood tests will only exclude

Bodyworks: Posterior Compartment Syndrome
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 15:52:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it

.Medical investigationsIf there is doubt about the diagnosis, you may need the usual x-rays and scans, not forgetting that the pain may originate in a disc lesion in your back. Damage to the veins can be excluded using a Doppler, a test using sound waves.What else could

Q+A: Do I have 'runner's liver'?
By Patrick Milroy on 09/09/2000 10:02:10
Our experts answer real-life questions

and abuse to which it has been subjected.—Dr Patrick Milroy, RW Medical Advisor

Q+A: I had shingles. Will running make it return?
By Patrick Milroy on 09/09/2000 10:02:10
Our experts answer real-life questions

were probably just unlucky in developing the condition, and would probably be doubly unlucky were it to return. I would suggest that you could start running as soon as the rash has dried up and the scabs have disappeared.—Patrick Milroy, RW Medical

Q+A: Can running help my exercise-induced asthma?
By Patrick Milroy on 01/03/2007 16:54:41
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it.— Patrick Milroy, RW Medical Adviser

Bodyworks: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 13:41:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it

to walk on, let alone run.SignsComparison with the other knee will allow your doctor to confirm the swelling of blood within the joint, and they may or may not draw this off before using other tests on the knee’s stability. When a knee is freshly swollen

Bodyworks: Adductor Injuries
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 13:47:57
How to recognise them, how to overcome them

will be painful. Outward movement of the hip will be restricted by spasm and pain. Complete ruptures are uncommon.Medical investigationThe simple test of the doctor trying to part the knees while the patient is lying flat is usually the only investigation required

Bodyworks: Runner's Knee
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 15:57:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it

doctor may try Clarke’s test, in which they’ll pull the kneecap towards your toes while inviting you to gently straighten your knee. You’ll feel pain; they’ll feel a roughness or grating as the uneven rear surface of the patella moves through the femoral

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