Her form wasn’t like that in high school. Below is a video of her close in the 200 at the Ohio HS state championship. You can see the difference.
My younger sister played club soccer with her in high school. Yeah, her ACL injuries were unfortunate but being as resilient as she is, she always came back stronger. I hope she can now but this seems worse than her other injuries.
You might be right about the ass hole part, but you are wrong about me also being Kobbs...he is too smart to be me. Anyway, thanks for your personal insights into Abby.
I've had three surgeries for Hagland's and can attest that it's no easy thing from which to return. The first two were on my left foot in November 2012 and April 2013. The second was required because I slipped on stairs and pulled a small portion of the Achilles off the bone. In 2022 I had the same surgery on my right foot. After my first two surgeries, it took six years before I could run consistently for a period longer than 5 months, because my Achilles would just become inflamed. Each break was 6 months long. The bone growth really abraded the Achilles, and tore completely through in one spot. Recovery was much better after the latest surgery because there was little damage to the Achilles, but it was 8 months before I could return to easy running and another 3 before I could start training. Three years later I'm still limited to 4-5 days running per week (I'm also 62, so there's that).
I hope AS can recover and return; being from Ohio myself I'm a fan of hers.
I had endoscopic Haglund's surgery on my left heel back in late Aug, 2023, and the outcome has been very good. I can run as much as I want -- including hard fartlek, strides, and intervals -- without any pain in the left heel or Achilles. I haven't noticed any loss of function in that leg, either.
I may just have been lucky in my choice of surgeons (here in Japan). I chose him, even though his hospital is a 2-hour drive away, because he had published a journal paper documenting his success with both athletes and non-athletes.
He debrided the Achilles (removed embedded bone) during the procedure. That involved cutting away parts of the tendon, so he had me come back for 12 monthly followup visits to have the tendon examined by ultrasound and see how well it had healed. I was running decent mileage (30-50 mpw) during that time, but generally refrained from anything hard until the ultrasound showed that the tendon had fully recovered.
I'm now considering having the same procedure done on the other heel. But I'd prefer to avoid that by using a custom orthotic I've had for several years that seems to prevent pain by correcting my slight leg-length discrepancy.
FWIW.
The sad truth is you don't have to be good at surgery to do surgery, nor do you have to be good at surgery to be part of a team that treats these athletes. I see the Ortho work done on foot and ankle at my (elite) institution and it's sub par. An uncomplicated haglunds just shouldn't be difficult. It's 20 minutes of actual operating time. Its been published several times that you can just partially reflect the achilles at it's insertion, remove the spur and any clean up, tack the tendon back down and start serious rehab. Surgeons are products of their training. If they were trained by crappy surgeons that do crappy surgery. Complications, esp infection happen, but it should be the rare case. For elite runners I would agree something close to a year. 3 mo for couch potato. Re-dos are a mess, get it right the first time.
I had endoscopic Haglund's surgery on my left heel back in late Aug, 2023, and the outcome has been very good. I can run as much as I want -- including hard fartlek, strides, and intervals -- without any pain in the left heel or Achilles. I haven't noticed any loss of function in that leg, either.
I may just have been lucky in my choice of surgeons (here in Japan). I chose him, even though his hospital is a 2-hour drive away, because he had published a journal paper documenting his success with both athletes and non-athletes.
He debrided the Achilles (removed embedded bone) during the procedure. That involved cutting away parts of the tendon, so he had me come back for 12 monthly followup visits to have the tendon examined by ultrasound and see how well it had healed. I was running decent mileage (30-50 mpw) during that time, but generally refrained from anything hard until the ultrasound showed that the tendon had fully recovered.
I'm now considering having the same procedure done on the other heel. But I'd prefer to avoid that by using a custom orthotic I've had for several years that seems to prevent pain by correcting my slight leg-length discrepancy.
FWIW.
The sad truth is you don't have to be good at surgery to do surgery, nor do you have to be good at surgery to be part of a team that treats these athletes. I see the Ortho work done on foot and ankle at my (elite) institution and it's sub par. An uncomplicated haglunds just shouldn't be difficult. It's 20 minutes of actual operating time. Its been published several times that you can just partially reflect the achilles at it's insertion, remove the spur and any clean up, tack the tendon back down and start serious rehab. Surgeons are products of their training. If they were trained by crappy surgeons that do crappy surgery. Complications, esp infection happen, but it should be the rare case. For elite runners I would agree something close to a year. 3 mo for couch potato. Re-dos are a mess, get it right the first time.
An even sadder truth is that this applies to all medical fields. It's scary how many incompetent doctors are out there roaming around messing up people's lives.
The sad truth is you don't have to be good at surgery to do surgery, nor do you have to be good at surgery to be part of a team that treats these athletes. I see the Ortho work done on foot and ankle at my (elite) institution and it's sub par. An uncomplicated haglunds just shouldn't be difficult. It's 20 minutes of actual operating time. Its been published several times that you can just partially reflect the achilles at it's insertion, remove the spur and any clean up, tack the tendon back down and start serious rehab. Surgeons are products of their training. If they were trained by crappy surgeons that do crappy surgery. Complications, esp infection happen, but it should be the rare case. For elite runners I would agree something close to a year. 3 mo for couch potato. Re-dos are a mess, get it right the first time.
An even sadder truth is that this applies to all medical fields. It's scary how many incompetent doctors are out there roaming around messing up people's lives.
I had endoscopic Haglund's surgery on my left heel back in late Aug, 2023, and the outcome has been very good. I can run as much as I want -- including hard fartlek, strides, and intervals -- without any pain in the left heel or Achilles. I haven't noticed any loss of function in that leg, either.
I may just have been lucky in my choice of surgeons (here in Japan). I chose him, even though his hospital is a 2-hour drive away, because he had published a journal paper documenting his success with both athletes and non-athletes.
He debrided the Achilles (removed embedded bone) during the procedure. That involved cutting away parts of the tendon, so he had me come back for 12 monthly followup visits to have the tendon examined by ultrasound and see how well it had healed. I was running decent mileage (30-50 mpw) during that time, but generally refrained from anything hard until the ultrasound showed that the tendon had fully recovered.
I'm now considering having the same procedure done on the other heel. But I'd prefer to avoid that by using a custom orthotic I've had for several years that seems to prevent pain by correcting my slight leg-length discrepancy.
FWIW.
Its been published several times that you can just partially reflect the achilles at it's insertion, remove the spur and any clean up, tack the tendon back down and start serious rehab.
Just FYI, the endoscopic procedure I underwent didn't involve detaching the Achilles from the heel at all. He just approached the calcaneus from the side, inserted the burr beneath the tendon, and shaved away the excess bone. That's why I chose him. The idea of having my Achilles detached from the heel and then reattached with hardware gave me the willies.
Steiner has been plagued with injuries since her soccer days. But then you watch her run and wonder if that funny technique of hers was a ticking bomb on her body. Unfortunately, some athletes develop bad technical gestures early on -in her case, forcing turnover in a smaller stride- which remain addressed as a result of becoming so good too quick. And then considering changes in mechanical pattern takes time aka slows them down temporarily, they stick with what works.
I don't necessarily think that improving her technique was going to make her improve her PRs dramatically but it would have allowed her to run those amazing times for 5-10 more years if she wanted to. Hoping for a miracle on her body and switch that form girl!!
Her form wasn’t like that in high school. Below is a video of her close in the 200 at the Ohio HS state championship. You can see the difference.
My younger sister played club soccer with her in high school. Yeah, her ACL injuries were unfortunate but being as resilient as she is, she always came back stronger. I hope she can now but this seems worse than her other injuries.
Yikes. There seems to be a lot going wrong there, at least from this amateur's perspective. Aside from the obvious asymmetry in her arm carriage (her left arm crosses the midline of her chest while her right arm moves almost straight back and forth), there seems to be a lot of external rotation of her right leg and foot during stance (shorter right leg?). Seems to me her form improved a lot in college.