Assaulted... now can't run

Did you get is license and report him? If not, you should have.

In the meantime, ice it 10 times a day, any time it is hurting and keep doing that till it's healed.

Sweep the leg

That's the purpose of leg kicks. It incapacitates the enemy without causing any, real, long term damage. If you aren't used to it, all at takes is a few leg kicks and you'll be down for the count.

If you didn’t do anything that’ll get you on the wrong side of the law, do you want the store to pull security tapes and send to the police?

As far as the leg, I’d bet it’s a deep tissue hematoma. They hurt for a while (several weeks or longer), but it’s nothing permanent. Diagnosing something over the Internet by someone who isn’t a doctor may not be the best medical decision, though. If you’re concerned, get an MRI. If your doctor orders an X-ray and refuses MRI, get a new doctor.

A few weeks!?? Damnit :( I was running so well lately.

As far as pressing charges, I didn't at the time.. I didn't think it was such a big deal and the guy seemed like the type who would retaliate for that sort of thing. kept yelling he was a veteran and I just wanted to get out of there safely. Now it sucks- wish he would have just punched me in the face instead

He probably wasn’t honorably discharged.

Hopefully I’m wrong about the leg and it feels better soon.

Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, could be 6-16 weeks. I had a deep quad bruise in basketball back in the day. We tried taping it, massaging it, whatever. I could play all out... but it would spontaneously collapse / buckle my leg - kind of funny for my teammates after awhile. It was closer to the 4 month healing time - maybe because I kept playing on it, though.

Was that the extent of the altercation? He kicked you and you realized it wasn’t worth escalating and limped away?

Take a hot shower several times a day and get the blood flowing. Fighters take dozens of these kicks and survive. You'll be back in no time.

can you give us a blow by blow wrote:

Was that the extent of the altercation? He kicked you and you realized it wasn’t worth escalating and limped away?

The guy, in his mid 40's followed me out of the store 6 inches behind me while I walked calmly and could see him on the cameras in the ceiling ( with a TV showing you walking towards the cameras if you have seen that) yelling and once outside, I turned around. He started yelling " you gonna hit a veteran? you gonna hit a veteran?" over and over and a crowd formed. I called him a loser and to f off while the staff kept yelling him to leave too. Then he hacks my leg... fair play to him he knows how to kick. I freeze thinking should I hit him back? I don't and just keep saying you're embarrassing yourself blah blah go away you are a loser, while the crowd is saying the police are coming.

Nobody actually called the police turns out- but they waited with me til I cooled down. But he circled the premises for about 10 min while I was talking with staff outside by my car. Wonder if I should have hit him back :/ too late now.

BUT to answer your question I was not limping at the time, it only started affecting me about 30 min later once I got home and now i'm F'd

Go now and file a police report. It may save someone else.

Poozay Galore wrote:

Take a hot shower several times a day and get the blood flowing. Fighters take dozens of these kicks and survive. You'll be back in no time.

Absolutely do NOT do that. Heat increases inflammation, increases pain, and delays the healing, a prime reason why people have injuries that last for months and years. Use ice, ice water compresses, and no heat.

What you should have done was said, "sorry, I didn't mean to offend you" and NOT call him any names. That's what happens in real life when you're not on the internet.

At this point you could still get in contact with the store, preferably in person, and also file a police report, because he did assault you physically.

I'm surprised dunes actually has decent advice given his thoughts on covid. OP, you should have pressed charges. You were assaulted. You were well within your rights to try to verbally defuse the situation in the store and the guy who assaulted you was in the wrong. Maybe the store has video and if you press charges, someone could find the guy before he attacks anyone else.

CBDalloway wrote:

BUT to answer your question I was not limping at the time, it only started affecting me about 30 min later once I got home and now i'm F'd

Your leg matters, report the prick.

Thank you all for the replies- I was really more worried about my leg.

And now I don’t know if I should heat or ice

dikcheney wrote:

Thank you all for the replies- I was really more worried about my leg.

And now I don’t know if I should heat or ice

Just think of it logically. Heat increases blood flow to the surface of the skin, increasing inflammation, which stimulates the nerves thereby increasing the pain and delaying healing. You can actually make the injury worse using heat.

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Cold does the opposite, drives blood deep into the tissues for healing, decreases inflammation, which decreases pain, and greatly accelerates the healing process. I have used this method many times to quickly heal injuries.

There was an excellent book written about this called "The Causes, Prevention and Treatment of Sports Injuries, by Hans Kraus, first published in 1969. He has a nice webpage written about him on Wikipedia.

dunes runner wrote:

dikcheney wrote:

Thank you all for the replies- I was really more worried about my leg.

And now I don’t know if I should heat or ice

Just think of it logically. Heat increases blood flow to the surface of the skin, increasing inflammation, which stimulates the nerves thereby increasing the pain and delaying healing. You can actually make the injury worse using heat.

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Cold does the opposite, drives blood deep into the tissues for healing, decreases inflammation, which decreases pain, and greatly accelerates the healing process. I have used this method many times to quickly heal injuries.

There are an awful lot of studies on the importance of inflammation in healing. Our bodies don't have an inflammatory process for no reason, it serves a purpose.

Rule of thumb: ice initially, heat after swelling and initial inflammation is decreasing. Depending on the injury, you switch around 2 days to 2 weeks. For something like this, maybe 4 or 5 days as a guess.

I second all of the "go now and report it" suggestions. Also, if you end up going to a doctor, submit those records to the police as well.

Dude who kicked you is either

1) nuts and needs professional intervention to help him

2) an absolute jerk and deserves to be punished.

Who does he assault next time? Does he stop after a single kick? Do they pull out a gun and kill him? Report it.