Injury Update June

No one is owning up to any new injury, nor coming forward with status of their old injuries. Perhaps they regard them as niggles A bleep test on return to training would be interesting to observe.

So Updates first.

Jarrod

Has been doing lots on his elliptical and swimming too. Perhaps a new career in Triathlons beckons!! He has. tried the odd small run but is taking it really slowly. The injury is definitely improving with rehab though.

Great to hear that.

Matt

Is doing lots of cycling with the occasional run. But he is now rivalling me for the most injuries you can get. As he tells me..
I’m a bit of a walking disaster at the moment as I lurch from one injury to the next. If it’s not my knee it’s my back and now it’s my ankle. Historic injuries are starting to catch up with me. My left knee continues to ache after a run but I was managing 2 or 3 short runs a week. Anything over an hour and I have to rest it for a week. But I also have a recurrence of an old injury which has, for the time being at least, superseded my knee and will always be a recurrent problem. A week ago I was walking around Erwood reservoir with my family when I rolled my ankle and dislocated it. Unfortunately as I am missing my lateral ankle ligaments it’s never just a simple sprain and my foot now dislocates from my ankle joint. I actually do this about once a year on average ever since tearing my lateral ankle ligaments whilst playing football aged 17. I have put off surgery for years. In fact it was the main reason I stopped playing football and started running in 2011. It’s also the reason I am often the first person to get out a head torch at the club in winter. My ankle is so unstable it usually dislocates when I’m doing everyday tasks or just walking down the street eg. standing on an uneven paving stone. I spoke to an ankle surgeon on Friday who has agreed to operate if I have a further episode this year. They create a ligament by grafting some tendon tissue from a muscle called peroneus brevis.  Although the injury is very unpleasant when it happens there is nothing much left to tear, I can pop my foot back in place within seconds and I am often back running within 2 weeks. As I’ve been doing it for 29 years and it still only occurs once or twice a year I’ve decided to leave things for now and just get on the wobble board and resume brushing my teeth on one leg to improve proprioception. This will never prevent it from recurring but it’s all I can do to help, short of having yet more surgery.  On a more positive note I am enjoying my cycling and yoga but I still want to run and hope to gently reintroduce a few very short runs in about another week.

There’s a video which shows what happens to my ankle. This was a golfer called Tony Finau who dislocated his ankle whilst celebrating a hole in one in the par3 tournament the day before his first US Masters in 2018. Incredibly he managed to finish in the top 10. I can’t claim circumstances as dramatic or impressive surrounding my injuries. It’s here – Don’t watch if your squeamish.

Bill

Over the past few months there has been a gradual improvement. I can do things like gardening that used to affect it but not any more. The constant pain has nearly gone.

However, if I try to run or walk any distance then I struggle. It’s not great pain but it won’t allow me to open my legs up and run normally., I can shuffle and that’s it. It feels as if gentle pressure is being put across my lower back so that I can’t move properly.

The pain does seem to move around the pelvis and last week it was in the left side of my groin.

I’m encouraged that there is some improvement but it has been two years. Still waiting to hear from the Regency Spire hospital in Macclesfield for a new date to see the specialist.

In the meantime, the garden has never looked better and I doing plenty of painting.

Emmy

not sure I think she is still awaiting for physio’s to start business and to get an injection

Patrick

Haven’t been able to go for a run since my 2 miler a month ago.  Not sure what is going on in my right leg. Back to square one now, taking things slower. The Alex is hoping to open for normal procedures towards the end of July!  Might get my injection September-time 🙁

Julie

My Injury is definitely improving, my foot is fine now, and the more running, yoga, strength work I do, the more my hip improves.

Elsewhere..

Miss J is managing her ankle ’niggle’ and is not pushing it at the moment. Laura is suffering from plantar fasciitis but does have cycling and swimming to go at; Claire has been suffering for a while now but when allowed is hoping to get on a bike – something she hasn’t done since being a teenager!! Mr W has a knee niggle. Missie C’s knee is still holding up and doing the occasional run.

And for those ladies who are running and looking after their Knees and Ankles and too bashful to tell me about it… Take care.