How do you know if your stress fracture is healing? I have been out since track ended. I have been able to do do a lot of biking and swimming without pain. However yesterday I ellipticaled for the first time in a month for only 15 minutes and woke up today unable to walk without a lot of pain around my Achilles. Is that a normal response? My stress fracture is located in the lower part of my tibia right above my ankle. Should I schedule another appointment and tell my doctor or do you think it's only normal after not elliptically for a while? I was able to walk pain free before this as well.
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You should schedule an appointment with your English teacher.
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I Chose D2 wrote:
You should schedule an appointment with your English teacher.
screw you dude, this is a website of positivity, we aren't going to take your negative comments around here anymore, we are on to you, we know who you are and your ip address and we will come for you if you don't change your ways. -
PositiveBro wrote:
I Chose D2 wrote:
You should schedule an appointment with your English teacher.
screw you dude, this is a website of positivity, we aren't going to take your negative comments around here anymore, we are on to you, we know who you are and your ip address and we will come for you if you don't change your ways.
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Get in to see a physical therapist.
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Bruh Its a message board not an English class brotha. And thanks haven't done any physical therapy yet. Going to see a orthopedic specialist about the rehabbing process is probably pointless
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Use your team's Alter-G...maybe 30% body weight to start.
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We don't have one or I'd be logging as much miles I can.
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MediocreMiler wrote:
How do you know if your stress fracture is healing?
You get an xray which will show calcification at the site of the fracture, hence, indicating healing.
I have been out since track ended. I have been able to do do a lot of biking and swimming without pain. However yesterday I ellipticaled for the first time in a month for only 15 minutes and woke up today unable to walk without a lot of pain around my Achilles. Is that a normal response?
No it is not a normal response. Your fracture has likely not healed.
My stress fracture is located in the lower part of my tibia right above my ankle. Should I schedule another appointment and tell my doctor or do you think it's only normal after not elliptically for a while? I was able to walk pain free before this as well.
Why would you start using the elliptical without having imaging/seeing your dr? -
make sure the fracture has healed before you start running. This might mean you run the day you next see your doctor, it might mean you run in winter track next. I had a injury which prevented me from running for 6 months once. Didn't run a step until 10 days before xc practice started, but I still pr'd that season. However, it was mid october, 2 months after practice started before my times were even in line with what I'd done in the past. Don't push yourself when you come back and risk reinjury.
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You don't exactly have all the details here, but I'll roughly guess the timeline. It sounds like you had a stress fracture at the end of the track season and you ran on it anyways. All I'm guessing your track season ended about two months ago, we'll call it 8 weeks. That should be enough time for a stress fracture to heal, especially if you spent any time on crutches at the beginning.
You say you spent some time on the elliptical yesterday and today woke up with pain around your achilles. Was the initial stress fracture pain on the front side or back side of your shin? And is the pain today on the front side or back side of the shin? Again just guessing here, but it sounds like the pain is in different place. I personally don't like the elliptical that much because my feet and lower legs move around more than they should I think, which causes a lot of soreness. If this sounds like the case, then I wouldn't worry too much about it. Elliptical really shouldn't be putting that much pressure on your stress fracture, especially one that should be so far along in healing.
If it really has been 8 weeks or about that long, eventually you need to just try running again. I forget what my coach's advice was, but I think the first day back should be 1 minute running, 1 minute walking for 10 minutes on grass. First week, slowly reduce the walking time until you are 100% running, but still only 10 or maybe 15 minutes per day. Then work your way back from there. You won't be ready at all for early season in cross country, but you want to take it slow with the stress fracture. But, I'm more inclined at this point to believe the elliptical is aggravating something other than the original injury. -
trainelitedotcom wrote:
Use your team's Alter-G...maybe 30% body weight to start.
I would be willing to bet less than a third of DI teams and very few programs at any other level have unrestricted walk-in access to an AlterG treadmill.
The schools that I have seen that have them have one for the performance lab or training room and athletes have to schedule half hour blocks with the training staff to use it. -
Pretty much it. I have another appointment and hopefully it's good news.
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However yesterday I ellipticaled for the first time in a month...
forming verbs from nouns frequently gets deprecated because some of them just don't work. "I'll diary that right away," and "the mall was architected by a team," and so forth. but when I hear people complain about it in general, as though it were always wrong, I ask myself how these dullards water their lawn or butter their toast, or button their shirt.
so when I read in your post, "yesterday I ellipticaled," I thought that a pretty good stab at a verb for using an elliptical trainer. other options might be ellipticated, ellipted, or ellipsed. but none of these are quite right and I doubt they will catch on so we need a few bold folks like you to try out these things, to give it a go and see what works and not worry too much about the unimaginative proles who poke fun at linguistic experiments.
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He should leave the linguistic experimentation to people who have mastered conjugating “to run.”
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Thank you! Love your funny response...I was eating some dry cereal from a bowl and almost spit the Cheerios onto the monitor! Good laugh! Thanks!
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MediocreMiler wrote:
We don't have one or I'd be logging as much miles I can.
It's "many".
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You haven't practiced grammar either.
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grammarian 2.0 wrote:
MediocreMiler wrote:
We don't have one or I'd be logging as much miles I can.
It's "many".
Miles is a countable noun. "Much" is used for uncountable things.
Whilst "much" miles is wrong, I find "biking" more annoying. If cycling on a bike is called "biking" should swimming in a pool be called "pooling?" I don't know if biking is incorrect, but it certainly sounds silly. -
Cottonshirt wrote:
However yesterday I ellipticaled for the first time in a month...
forming verbs from nouns frequently gets deprecated because some of them just don't work. "I'll diary that right away," and "the mall was architected by a team," and so forth. but when I hear people complain about it in general, as though it were always wrong, I ask myself how these dullards water their lawn or butter their toast, or button their shirt.
so when I read in your post, "yesterday I ellipticaled," I thought that a pretty good stab at a verb for using an elliptical trainer. other options might be ellipticated, ellipted, or ellipsed. but none of these are quite right and I doubt they will catch on so we need a few bold folks like you to try out these things, to give it a go and see what works and not worry too much about the unimaginative proles who poke fun at linguistic experiments.
cheers.
Surely "ellipticalled" is better than "ellipticaled"
