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If you’ve recently picked up a Running Injury, or if you’ve been suffering with an injury for a while – it can be very tempting to pass it off as “nothing serious” and simply “put up with it” carrying on as best you can.
Or, it can be very easy to get disheartened and end up feeling “stuck”, wondering if you’ll ever be able to get back to running or keeping active like you used to…
Most people think that when they get a Running Injury it’ll get better with a few days rest, and that they’ll be able to return to running or exercise again, quickly. But then when they go back to exercise again they’re still restricted – sometimes it’s even worse than it was when it first came on. Often when you rest there is little if any pain – but as soon as you start up again, it comes back and no matter how much rest you give it – it doesn’t seem to be improving.
Does that sound like you?
Another scenario we see all the time in our Clinic is when people go to the Doctors, and the Doctor tells them they need to take a break, rest, wear a support and “try these painkillers” to “see how it goes” – but then 4 weeks later they end up going back to the same Doctor again because the injury hasn’t got any better, only to be given MORE rest, and ANOTHER prescription of even stronger pills.
The problem is that when it comes to running injuries – hips, heel pain, runner’s knee etc., – complete rest is rarely the best advice.
So maybe you’re confused and frustrated because you been told different things, by different people. Maybe you think you have a knee problem – but it’s actually the hip where the problem came from?
This confusion over “resting” often leads people to continue to procrastinate and put off making a decision about what to do to help fix their injury and return back to running. Worse, many people just end up accepting ‘their days of being active are over’ – as if it’s normal, as if it ‘has’ to be that way.
If that’s happening to you, you’re not alone – and we hear this type of thing all the time.
Okanagan Athletic Therapy in Kelowna has been working and helping people like YOU find relief from acute AND chronic running injuries, so they can continue doing the things they love, stay active and mobile WITHOUT pain killers, AND stay out of the doctor’s office.
We are offering you this FREE tips guide to eliminate your running injuries in effective and quick ways.