g-zellin wrote:
apparently no one knows about alternative treatments. it really saddens me that top american runners ie. Bernard Lagat don't know which specialists to see for an injury as simple and treatable and runnable as an achilles injury. conventional doctors dont want healthy people
I'm sure that the sports doctor working with Lagat wants him to be healthy... if he gets Lagat healthy than he will get more business from elite athletes. What are your magical alternative treatments?
hint: i believe the founder of this chiropractic therapy is mentioned in Running with the Buffaloes as completely ineffective and too expensive, but im not really sure. i can vouch for this therapy (also mentioned on letsrun homepage a few months back)
g-zellin wrote:
hint: i believe the founder of this chiropractic therapy is mentioned in Running with the Buffaloes as completely ineffective and too expensive, but im not really sure. i can vouch for this therapy (also mentioned on letsrun homepage a few months back)
Apparently you are not interested in helping runners get healthy either, just in posting cryptic and condescending messages.
i believe this is it... it's been on the message boards before. a word of caution; alternative treatments may turn you into a hippie and open your mind
I believe it is actually platelet rich injections straight into the tendon. Tegenkamp amongst others has had it and the results were extremely effective. It's been banned for muscle injuries now as of Jan. 1/2010 but is still legal for tendons and ligaments.
tough call wrote:
http://www.activerelease.ca/2_ARTHistory.htmli believe this is it... it's been on the message boards before. a word of caution; alternative treatments may turn you into a hippie and open your mind
That is not an alternative therapy.
icing and rest are fine but what cures the achilles tendonitis is eccentric calf raises. you stand half on a step, facing up, raise yourselves up to your toes, then lower yourself very slowly (the calf goes up as you lower yourself) with the bad leg until your heel is down below the step and fully extended, and repeat. 3 sets of 10 reps per day will be enough to get you healthy within a week or two, while still running but not pushing it a great deal if the heel is really feeling problematic. You can add weight while doing them. There are leaper machines that do this: you stand on a bar, with your shoulders under another bar with the machine set to maybe 30 to 150 lbs, depending on the strength of your calves, and you do the same thing.
Strengthen your calves too quickly and you will get shin splints, so every day add the opposite exercises: on a step facing down you leave your heel on the step while rotating your foot up and down below the step, many, many times per day.
Honestly, I do not think that some of the elites or their trainers know that this is the only treatment for achilles.
I heard he's sidelined with an unfortunate case of premature baldness. Few treatments of Rogaine and he'll be setting records in not time!
Believe me it is not always a minor injury. I snapped mine ignoring the warning signs of tendonitis. It CAn lead to major injury.