If you have any sense at all, you will not take injury advice from people on letsrun

Thanks!

You think the injury advice is bad, think of how many people think that moron flagpole is some kind of financial oracle.

Think of any advice here. It could be givin by an expert in his field, or a someone sniffing glue in their parents basement. They both post here, someone passes on the advice by saying: "I read it on the internet."

Proper Rehabilitation wrote:

Not that I can tell you were to get better advice, but the more I read this board, the more obvious it becomes that running is dominated by superstition and things people made up in their heads that they wish were true. Most of the posters here are worse than clueless; their advice is more likely to exacerbate your injuries than fix them. It's really a warning about the nature of running in general. If you get hurt, you are on your own, because the science of treating running injuries is so primitive that bad ideas easily flourish.

Which advices are you talking about? I have actually come into some pretty good advice from this board. Granted not all of it is good, but of course people are going to express different opinions. You just have to use critical thinking for that. High intensity strength exercises have helped me overcome tendonitis, and trigger point massage therapy has also been a very valuable tool for me. What advice did you find that would actually hurt people... ice/stretch? What?

I have taken your advice to ignore your advice.

I would agree. Out of all the responses, usually about 10% or so are actually very effective advice if you use your critical thinking skills and go into injury with an aggressive mindset that you are going to get rid of it as fast as possible, and do everything in your power to do so.A person's mindset is one of the biggest factors in how quickly one gets over an injury. At least that's my belief, and I've seen it proven right time and again.You can let your injury control you, or you can grab it by the horns.

someone else wrote:

...I have actually come into some pretty good advice from this board. Granted not all of it is good, but of course people are going to express different opinions. You just have to use critical thinking for that. High intensity strength exercises have helped me overcome tendonitis, and trigger point massage therapy has also been a very valuable tool for me. What advice did you find that would actually hurt people... ice/stretch? What?

dfdfdf wrote:

You think the injury advice is bad, think of how many people think that moron flagpole is some kind of financial oracle.

Think of any advice here. It could be givin by an expert in his field, or a someone sniffing glue in their parents basement. They both post here, someone passes on the advice by saying: "I read it on the internet."

While you are correct that any advice given here could be by someone sniffing glue in their parent's basement, you are incorrect in saying that I am a moron. More people would have more money and less stress if they followed my financial advice, and you can't say that's not true, because the statistics bear that out. The VAST majority of people do not have enough saved for retirement, have $10,000 or more in credit card debt, have other debts (cars, homes, other things) out the wazoo and don't really think about their post-work life, or they tell themselves they love their work so much that they want to work until they die (so that they don't have to put any money away).

When someone is hurt, the first thing LR claims is STRESS FRACTURE!

honestly, flagpole, you can't say that when you were totally advising people to go in to the market when it was just about to crash. you've done well recently, and for the right reasons, but you got greedy and lost out. Always take your profits, at least some, when the market's in bubble state and the economy has no fundamental soundness. And get back in when the market's overcorrected.

Injury advice here is almost always the conservative advice you get from doctors and many other health professionals, e.g. rest, stretch, ice. So that can't hurt you (sometimes stretching can, as with the calf tear). But if you find someone who got over the injury by doing exercises, that will nearly always work and has worked for me over and over.

look, I do hope only a few people put into action whatever they read on lrc.

That said, I do think there is a ton of very useful information on the boards and not so much completely useless/hurtful information. That little bit can be screened out with even a high schooler's bs filter.

Plus, the older I get the more I learn that medicine and exercise science (and especially physical therapy) are just a set of probabilities and traditions. Sure, the scientific method guides experts, but the fact is, it only works some percentage of the time.

Even that classic - icing - is now looking like it might be a myth.

My master point is that relying on MDs or PTs is not that great an option either. Might as well read on lrc what people have had success with in the field and then decide. The human body is too complex to hope to find the one correct solution to most running problems.

jjjjj wrote:

honestly, flagpole, you can't say that when you were totally advising people to go in to the market when it was just about to crash. you've done well recently, and for the right reasons, but you got greedy and lost out. Always take your profits, at least some, when the market's in bubble state and the economy has no fundamental soundness. And get back in when the market's overcorrected.

INCORRECT! I'm a long-term investor and so continued to put money in the whole time...so that I am up (on gains ONLY) now from where I was in October 2007. I always tell people who are closer to retirement to be more conservative (more bonds). I've NEVER been greedy. Greedy people try to time the market to make the best score, and THAT CAN NOT BE DONE. There are SOME strategies to use if buying individual stocks, but that's very risky.