I GOTTA TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!

I got rid of my piriformis strain 4 years ago by sprinting hard, not by taking days off. Hasn't come back since.

Oh, and by the way, are you the real Gerry Lindgren? Can wejo confirm this?

of course he is. I'm pretty sure it's been confirmed too.

Besides, who else could be that nuts? (he said endearingly)

Gerry, this is very interesting stuff, and I do not doubt your veracity.

Yes, sometimes, only SOMETIMES, a cure for a serious running problem comes not from western medicine but rather a non-intuitive sort of therapy such as training on your injuries.

Western Medicine depends largely on surgical intervention and chemical medicines. Alternative therapies such as Chinese medicine, phyical therapy, chiropractic and massage are often what you need.

For example, just before the Paris Marathon 2 months ago, I felt that my lower back was totally F*****. I had my friend Joe just give my legs a big pull by grabbing onto my ankles and yanking them. Problem solved!!!

Awesome. I treated an overtraining illness-chronic fatigue by homeopathics and I feel amazing, that was over two years ago and I have more energy than ever.

H2O girl wrote:

Awesome. I treated an overtraining illness-chronic fatigue by homeopathics and I feel amazing, that was over two years ago and I have more energy than ever.

H2O girl, please tell us more. What kind of products are these?

Jason

sorry, old buddy. all he did was "reduce" the hernia- i.e. push your guts back into your abdominal sack. the hernia will, without a doubt, return the next time you strain or do heavy lifting. it actually is still there- a hernia is northing more than an outpouching of a weakness in your groin wall. the sack will eventually "incarcerate" your bowel, effectively choking it off from its blood supply. your bowel will then die, releasing bacteria into your bloodstream at which point in time you get sicker than shit. get it fixed- mesh "screen" and all. kind of cool that i am discussing medical advice with gerry lindgren!

I had bilateral torn soleus tendons, so I went through 4 months of physical therapy, and it did absolutely nothing.

So I upped my mileage from 40 to 70 miles a week and ran them about 20-30 seconds per mile slower. And sure enough it went away completely.

theory of gravity wrote:

I got rid of my piriformis strain 4 years ago by sprinting hard, not by taking days off. Hasn't come back since.

Are you serious?

I wonder if there is some truth in this, running on an injury if it's not that bad? Last 6 weeks I have been doing daily a morning paper route. 3 routes, a lot of walking, some riding with bike, & some joging up & down steps, etc. The 3 routes take me 2 1/2 hr. - 3 hr. depending on bulkiness of papers. Noticed I'm dropping a few lbs., feeling fitter & running more & more with less difficulty with my chronic hip. Mind you due to cumulative fatigue, the early starting hr. I have been running 4x a week rather than 6x - 7x. Today I was doing a series of really solid pick ups, lengthening the stride & feeling like the sharpness after two years of running slowly is coming back.

Keep on swinging.