'll only need general medical cover if overseas. however, private medical cover may speed up treatment for certain issues but the NHS will still be the 1st port of call if you have a trauma injury while out and aboutI suggest you talk to an insurance
occasions to try it out on the bike/cross trainer and it feels ok but i've no confidence in running on it. Should i carry on with RICE and generally resting it or should i be trying to strengthen the area ?I was told that once the acute injury stage was over
so likely to be hard packed trail, I wouldn't say you'd need specific trail shoes unless you get a lot of rain the day before. As for propensity to injury what kind of injury? Running on trails is generally held to be easier on the joints
I've recently come back from injury and am training full on again. I'm running 60 mile+ p/w. I have been trying to pin point my weaknesses and the one main problem I have is after 20 mile or so my hamstrings hurt like hell. I'm not talking general
in general, and applies to hamstring strain.http://www.thestretchinghandbook.com/archives/sports-injuries.htmGood luck with it.RegardsBrad Walker101 Stretching Exercises sounds like it could be sciatica to me. I'm suffering with the same at the moment
injuries Really - excellent! Common wisdom is that alternating two pairs of shoes extends the life of each pair. It gives more recovery time for the cushioning, gel etc to expand back to normal.I generally run with two pairs of the same model of shoe
is a "Strongman" and his friends swear by them for their general aches and pains. thanks runnerbean Pain is generally there for a reason. I never take pain killers for a running injury, it tends to give you a false feeling of fitness and you could 'push
...most of the time keep FLM...otherwise the events thread will just be chaos...Kill general and URWFRC and just have chat.Injury could be injury and nutrition.Training, Tri / ultra, events, bugs as is.Is there a need for a "general thread"? Surely all serious threads
any exercises from your regular routine that might exacerbate your injury. I found with an achilles injury I was still able to squat and deadlift fine but lunges were problematic so I didn't do those. In general free weights are better than
Ibuprofen and using deep freeze gel. The tenderness has now gone and changed in to a deeper general ache in the ‘shin’. The thing is that I’m not sure if this is part of the healing process or a new injury?. Ok thanks guys, I'll assume it's shin splints
