Foot Tendinitis!!!!

[aussiebound]

I went to the ER the other day thinking I broke my foot but I found out it is just tendinitis. It hurts like crazy and the doc wouldn't even give me pain killers, just frieken Lodine, an anti-inflam. Anyone ever experience this b4? I'm cutting up and this is hindering my cardio schedule.

 

[thate]

I'm getting horrible foot cramping that I've never experienced before. I'm on fina/dbol/winny/slin right now and have gained a fair amount of weight, but they are in serious pain at times.

 

[Zyglamail]

I have it in my left foot, comonly refered to as planar fasceitis (sp?). Im not a big runner but it does ache a lot after working calves.

As for healing, if you stay on the anti-inflamatories you are going to set yourself up for future problems. I am in the minority when I say anti-inflamatories (at least for tendon/ligament injuries) HINDER HEALING BIGTIME and by using them you are trading comfort for healing. Goto prolonews.com and do some reading and see if you can find a prolo doc in your area, he can treat you, speed up healing and it will have little impact on your training.

 

[fresh]

Ultrasound and ART--both done by a chiropractor will decrease inflamation and break up scar tissue and adhesions

www.activerelease.com--you can find a provider by you.

 

[Zyglamail]

Ultrasound and ART--both done by a chiropractor will decrease inflamation and break up scar tissue and adhesions

www.activerelease.com--you can find a provider by you.

Why does everyone want to stop inflamation?

 

[ironcowboy]

If this is plantar fasciitis it can take a long time to heal. Some runners deal with this for a year or more. Really.

What you really need to do is keep the tendon on the bottom of your foot and your calf stretched out. Stretch your calfs like every hour or more during the day. Be very careful getting out of bed in the morning as the tendon is tight and stepping with it will just tear it again.

I run and I got over mine by wearing my birkenstocks around the house, never barefoot, and getting an orthotic for my work shoes. You'll have to cut back or stop your running for a couple of weeks or more. (Try rowing for cardio.) Some people say toe exercises and rolling a golf ball under your foot but these didn't help me. You can get a cortisone shot but that won't really solve it long term. Get an insole with good arch support.

I'm not a doctor so take this with a grain of salt.

 

[Zyglamail]

You can get a cortisone shot but that won't really solve it long term.

Once again, cortisone will eliminate inflamation, it will also eliminate healing. You will sacrifice heling for comfort and likely suffer long term damage. DO NOT associate lack of pain with healing. For a group that day in and day out trains and suffers through grueling workouts you are all a bunch of pussies. You work your ass off and suffer, often times painfully in the gym because it is a means to and end and you know the pain and effort will pay off in your physique but when you have a little tendon/ligament injury the first thing everyone does is run to the medicine cabinet.

 

[fresh]

Zyglamail--I did not say stop inflamation I said decrease inflamation. Inflamation is good in the healing process but not from an injured state. there is too much you nedd to decrease it not stop it.

As for plantar fac. if this is truly what you have i have seen many people including marathon runners and sprinters benefit greatly with ultrasound.

 

[Zyglamail]

Zyglamail--I did not say stop inflamation I said decrease inflamation. Inflamation is good in the healing process but not from an injured state. there is too much you nedd to decrease it not stop it.

As for plantar fac. if this is truly what you have i have seen many people including marathon runners and sprinters benefit greatly with ultrasound.

Im not discounting ultra sound or ART, one of the things that makes these methods effective is that they promote blood flow and in turn aid healing. What I dislike is when people recomend that someone increases blood flow with one method and in the same breath tell them to use ice or anti-inflamatories to reduce inflamation.

Granted, in certain cases inflamation can be detrimental such as in an alergic reaction, however, the only problem with inflamation due to a tendon/ligament injury is pain and in some cases mobility. Decreasing inflamation decreases pain and also has a negative impact on healing. Even reducing inflamation a little bit can have a drastic effect on tendons and ligaments simply due to the turnover rate of the cell types involved. These types of injuries normally heal slowly as is, even in a fully inflamed state but to futher reduce inflamation more often than not serves absolutely no purpose other than comfort and that comfort is gained at the expense of healing.

Simply put, I see people, including doctors, recomending thet inflamation for tendons/ligament be reduced but I have yet to have anyone showme/tell me why this is to be done. There is information abound on why inflamation is a key element in healing but I have yet to see one shred of scientific, verifiable proof from anyone recomending inflamation be reduced as to the benefits of doing so(specifically in the case of tendon.ligament damage).

 

[ironcowboy]

I just want to make clear that although many doctors WILL recommend cortisone for immediate relief, but I certainly was not recommending it. It is short term relief at best.

This is one of those injuries that is very likely to recur later if you don't make some long-term changes in the way you do things. I'll wear orthotics the rest of my life even though I don't have symptons anymore because I know I'm susceptible.

 

[aussiebound]

I just need to know if a fews solid days of crutches will help mitigate the pain. Right now I have to walk all over campus and irritates the hell out of my foot. There is no way my doc will give me a cortisone shit. I just want to know the best to get this thing healed so I get get back to my normal routine without gimping around and punching the wall in pain.

 

[Zyglamail]

I just need to know if a fews solid days of crutches will help mitigate the pain. Right now I have to walk all over campus and irritates the hell out of my foot. There is no way my doc will give me a cortisone shit. I just want to know the best to get this thing healed so I get get back to my normal routine without gimping around and punching the wall in pain.

Using a sprained/strained tendon/ligament helps blood flow and promotes healing (assuming you havent allready gotten rid of inflamation with ice or anti-inflamatories) so crutches wont really benefit you. Just make sure you have a good pair of shoes with proper support or nice insoles and take it easy as far as running etc goes. These types of injuries take a very long time to heal and regardless of what most people think anti-inflamatories(icluding ice and cortisone) will help the pain but they will also greatly increase the time it takes for it to heal.

 

[BowlingForSoup]

Hey Aussie, Fresh is right..ultasound does work. As most have been saying, inflammation is the body's way of healing. Same as a scab. I get a wound, it heals over with a scab, underneath the scab it's healing. Basically, as you know, you've got an overuse injury that you've probably got in your posterior tibial tendon. This helps hold your foot arch and keeps you from rolling your foot too much. Are your symptions things like pain when you step (especially along the tendon), pain and swelling behind the inner ankle bone and burning,tingling or shooting pain in your foot? If that pertains to you then you've got inflammation in the nerve that surrounds the tendon and it hurts more when you walk, of course. If you go to the doctor, they'll ask you to stand on your toes and if this IS what you have you'll get intense pain and pressure on the arch of your foot. Ultrasound definitely wouledn't hurt, but I'd steer clear of the anti-inflammatories, cortizone, etc. They're going to make the problem worse. Ironcowboy touched on it, get an insole of some sort and keep it stretched out. Once you start taking care of it for a few weeks, the pain will decrease.

 

[aussiebound]

Thanks for all the insight. I'm going back to the doc on Monday for some insole insight. I got to a big 10 university and see the Team Physician so he knows his shit pretty well. The pain just sucks, especially since I'm used to doing cardio twice a day and I feel like a fat since returning from spring break. I just want to get this out of the way b4 I start up on my next cycle. Could the gear have anything to do with having this injury?

 

[BowlingForSoup]

What gear where you on? I don't recall if you said before.

 

[aussiebound]

just fina at 75 mg EOD

 

[BowlingForSoup]

Hmmmm. to be honest, I really wouldn't know. I doubt it because you obviously have had a lot of wear and tear on your feet, so it was one of those things that was bound to happen eventually if it was going to happen at all.But there's a lot of Fina experts on here. Somebody let him know if the Fina had anything to do with all this.