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Anselm Murphy Water Boy
Joined: 24 May 2001 Posts: 69
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 5:39 am Post subject: Injured again |
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For about the last two weeks I have done little running in order to try and get my old recurring injury to go away. I've only done about 2 3k runs and played football, or "soccer" a few times, but apart from that nothing.
My right hip aches a little all the time, and gets worse after a run of something like that. When I first saw a doctor about it ages ago they said it was an inflammed ligament and would be ok if I rested for about 6 weeks, which I did, and the injury kind of went away for around a year, but not completely, I could always tell it was there. Now it seems to be getting worse - I had started doing 800m intervals each day as well as my normal 3k run, and after about 2 - 3 weeks of this I started to notice the injury. When I saw a doctor about it and tried to get them to refer me to a physio, they said that the physio would probably just give me some stretching exercises to do, and that there would be no point in referring me as I could do these anyway. I remember Dan said something like doctors don't know anything about running injuries once - i agree.
I was thinking of doing the london marathon this year, but I know that after about 2 weeks of that kind of training I'll get injured. How can i get this to go away? I normally do stretches before running. Also, would putting ice on the affected area help? I think this is a relatively minor injury, but it just won't go away. whenever professional footballers get injured with worse things than I've got, they normally start playing again in a month or two, so there must be a way to get this to stop forever.
As well as doing the marathon, I want to start doing more interval training to get better at track running, and I also want to start sprinting ( i really feel the injury after doing sprints). Right now I cant do any of these. All I can really do is a slow run, and even that effects me a bit.
That was rather a long post wasn't it? thanks for reading it and I look forward to your advice. |
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Dan Chief Pontificator
Joined: 22 Mar 1999 Posts: 9334 Location: Salem, OR
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 7:10 am Post subject: |
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Sorry to hear that problem is still lingering. In addition to saying previously that a lot of doctors don't understand running injuries, I think I also said there's no reason to believe rest would heal an "injury" of that sort without also addressing the cause of the problem...
Quote: | Also, would putting ice on the affected area help? |
My preferred system is heat before, ice after. Heat the area before running to increase blood flow and muscle warmth, then ice after to reduce swelling or inflammation.
Quote: | I was thinking of doing the london marathon this year |
Whoa, start smaller!!! You've been talking about mile-type running, now a marathon jumps into the picture? How about a build-up diet of 5k's and 10k's to test the waters?
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Distance_Guru World Class
Joined: 09 Mar 2002 Posts: 1280 Location: Nebraska
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 8:28 am Post subject: |
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In addition to doing what Dan said, I would go find a doctor that will refer you to a physical therapist. Though I think it is a generalization to say doctors don't know about running injuries I think that it's unfortunatly more often true than untrue. I have also seen physical therapists work wonders. So my advice is a second opinion. _________________ Time is the fire in which we burn |
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Anselm Murphy Water Boy
Joined: 24 May 2001 Posts: 69
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 11:03 am Post subject: |
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About the marathon, if I could train without getting injured I don't think it would be a problem. It should only take me a month or so to get used to the different kind of training, as for about 6 months one year ago, my average run was 5 miles. I was training for the marathon then but found out that I had to be 18 ( i was 17 then) I did a few 10 mile runs which werent too hard, and even did an 18 mile run ( my longest ever) in exactly 2 hours, which meant I was probably in line for a respectable marathon time of around 3:15 or something.
It had taken me about 9 or 10 months to get to that level after starting running - my 1500 when I started was about 8:10.
I now have the same amount of time until the marathon, and am very fit to start with, so logically, i should be able to get even better than I was then. |
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