I hope she finds a doctor who is smart enough and cares enough to figure out what she can do to stay healthy. I know we all straddle a fine line between success and injury, but she seems like a very special case - with all the talent and the history of bizarrely low mileage and heroic workouts.
I'm a fan and hoping for the best, but if you are getting stress fractures in your spine, it might be time to call it a career. That suggests osteoporosis type weakness. Hope I'm wrong but also would like to think she's looking into plan B.
The solutions may lie in dietary changes, lifting, and flexibility exercises (usually it will be tightness going through the calves to the hams to the glutes that are associated with back issues). Tough to see a top talent like this going through so many injuries.
I'm a fan and hoping for the best, but if you are getting stress fractures in your spine, it might be time to call it a career. That suggests osteoporosis type weakness. Hope I'm wrong but also would like to think she's looking into plan B.
It is a very rare injury and shows that the bones are weak all the way up the chain. This is much rarer than a foot, leg, or even sacrum/hip stress fracture.
Everyone criticized Dave Smith and blamed him for her transferring.
Turns out that Dave Smith actually kept her healthier and running faster than the school she transferred to.
Maybe she should have stayed at OSU.
What? She came to OSU healthy and running at a high level. It took Dave one fall to break her. She left OSU in crutches and now dealing with the consequences. Hoping she fully recovers and becomes what she was before arriving at Oklahoma State.
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