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Anyone have this pain in the ankle area? Anything besides icing all day help it? |
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anyone? |
| yezzir1234 |
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had a bad case of this about a year ago. once you get past the initial 48 hour injury window, I would suggest gently massaging the tendon with some sort of instrument, such as the edge of a credit card. that should help to smooth out the "scratchyness" and increase blood flow to the area. ice cups are great because you can massage and ice at the same time. good luck. |
| runuke |
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Make sure that is really the injury. I had pain in the tendon around the front of the ankle, thinking its tendonitis. Turns out I had a 7 cm tear. My collapsed arch aggravated it. had to be repaired by surgery. If you actually have tenosynovitis, I've read that various PT modalities may help... |
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After over a month of pain, i finally got a MRI, and thats what the results said. They have given me Voltaren Gel and some pills. Currently going to PT.
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This thing will not go away |
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My D1 college runner son had this injury last year. Crepitus (sort of like crackling sensation) when you pushed down over the tendon. MRI confirmed. Sports med (ortho) and PT and coach tried all the things you are doing - voltaren gel, ice, ibuprofen and/or naproxen orally, massage - they tried all sorts of cross training, including pool running. Everything hurt. After about a month of this, continued bad pain and aching after every cross training session, he went back to sports med - ortho, and they pulled the plug on the season and put him in a walking boot. He stayed in it for 2 months. When he finally came out of it, he was pain free at last, but it took several more months of incredibly slow progression to work back up to even a fraction of the workout level he was at before. But the tenosynovitis never came back. The rest of the year was basically lost - redshirt. Big time training errors by the coach, increasing everything dramatically right at the start of the season - hard workouts, poor recovery days, increasing both mileage and intensity big time beyond what he had ever done before, and not listening to the athlete's feedback prior to the injury that he ached and had never felt that way before. Tendon injuries are a bitch, but if you don't bite the bullet and let them heal, they will be even more of a bitch and will continue to plague you for months or years. |
| voiceofreason |
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Graston. Www.grastontechnique.com |
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Thanks for the advice. If its not better by next week, my doctor will be giving me a cortisone shot. Hopefully that helps. |
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Is your doctor a sports medicine person who has a lot of experience treating runners? Cortisone will definitely make anything that is inflamed feel better, but steroids weaken tendons. You are risking rupture by doing that, in my opinion. Be really sure that is the right thing to do - sometimes a quick fix ends up causing major complications. |