It was this chronic stress that was preventing the tendon from completing the healing.
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The therapist showed me how to continue the treatment at home by myself, teaching me how to use the thumbs effectively and safely, ad explaining that the problem was being maintained by a trigger point in the Peroneus muscle that was causing stress at the lower attachment with the tendon that had been traumatized by the sprain. But when I stood up from the table, the pain at the Malleolus had disappeared - after four months! And the foot seemed more stable. The therapist found an extremely tender spot right below the knee on the outer side of the leg, and he truly caused me to see stars for a good five minutes. But that turned out to be the best decision I could have taken. I really feared I would need to undergo ligament repair surgery.īut then a friend advised me to see a massage therapist experienced in trigger point therapy, and so half-heartedly I booked an appointment.
After three months however, the pain was still present and the foot seemed unstable when walking, and new ankle sprains tended to reoccur very easily. I decided to stop running and to try to improve the damage with rest. So I became really worried and convinced myslf that I had damaged my leg beyond hope. Her ligaments had weakened so much from the repeated traumas that eventually she had to undergo repairing surgery. But the pain came back quite intense, and I started worrying that I could have damaged my ligaments irremediably.Ī collegue of mine at work had explaied to me that as a child she experienced exactly the same situation, and that after a sprained ankle accident, the ligament weakens and as a results it is easier to incur in repeated sprains. But it happened again! And I sprained the same ankle, although luckily not so violently as the first time. At any rate, I decided it was time to go back to my running program, and so I went to the park for a slow-paced run. So I bandaged the leg in an improvised fashion and went limping to work.Īfter a couple of weeks, the swelling had subsided, even though when walking I had the sensation of my right foot being slightly unstable. It didn't hurt that much at first, but then after I retuned home I could see that the ankle was swollen and I started to feel a burning pain in the area of the external Malleolus. I stepped into a hole in the sidewalk and fell badly twisting my right ankle. I knew I was to go slowly for the first few weeks and pay attention to maintain a low heart rate, and then I had to concentrate on breathing and keep the shoulders relaxed and. So I managed to get a pair of very expensive running shoes as a gift, and the following day, early in the morning, I gulped a cup of coffe and out I went, running on the street.
On the occasion of my fortieth birthday though, I looked at myself in the mirror, and noticing with horror the belly that had transformed my outline, I promised myself I would return to running regularly the way I used to do when I was twenty. Then, when I was about 35, I became overburdened with work and family obligations, and so I let myself go a bit.
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