Its NOT a stress fracture!

Chapter 3- Diagnosis & physical therapy.

I now can go down the stairs without my shin/leg hurting! That’s a good thing right?

I went to for the Free Running Clinic, a wonderful PT helped me treat or begin to fix what I had done to my leg.

Use the diagram above.

Probility Here it goes:

The muscles attached or near the fibula are "stuck" to the bone and move with it for support. Basically I dealt with shin splints before, but that time the muscles of the "extensor digitrum longus" aka outer shin muscle was being stressed from a) bad support b) not strong enough shin muscles c) running down hill/pounding of the foot and leg.

With this said, the first shin splint "episode" was called Anterior Compartment Syndrome--shin splints. Small fractures of the bone due to the stress of the muscle and it pulling away from the bone. After healing from that I got new and efficient support. This gave

1) More arch support

2) More power to my stride

3) Motion control shoe to stabilize me feet from over pronating.

My muscles felt better. However, due to the fact that I was running a lot on "bad shoes" or inefficient support (arch pain/taping and extra movement) cause my muscles to adjust to the problems---which the body is supposed to do. THEN, with the new support and gear, my body needed to readjust and accommodate itself to the new stuff. So as this was happening two things occurred.

1) Mileage went up too quick

2) Less days of running, but longer run periods. (ie: not running everyday, but 3xweek 7-8.5 miles each run)

Thus causing more time, stress, and exercise on the attempting to readjust muscles. This made them (the muscles) UN happy. Basically I did not allow my body to adjust without extra strain and stress caused by my increased mileage and running time.

Bad move Betty.

NOW, the next chapter begins.

My quads and thighs have exploded in my opinion. A friend said, "When you walked towards me, your legs/things look great, super muscular!!!"

a) I was flattered

b) Slightly embarrassed--but I mean come one I’ve been on the bike for a month now!

Continuing with explaining my "diagnosis"...

As you can see on the diagram above, the soleus located on the back part of your calf muscles (there are different names and other muscles back there too, I just don’t know all of them :-o) this muscle was the muscle that was adjusting itself when I had bad support and when I had new good support. This strain on the muscle with the incorporation of extra use caused it to pull back toward my heel/back part of my calf. This is a natural thing the human body does---it was: bulking: up to support, so the muscles pulled back. This caused a pain in my lower front shin. As of right now the SOLEUS is damaged and that is the pain.

I assume.... to be continued.

Anyways.

Got new shoes.

Best 140 I’ve ever spent. Now I can spin inside with actual spinning shoes. Boo-yaw

Now that I'm broke, it’s a good day.

Note to whom ever reads/to runners:

LISTEN TO YOUR BODY, I feel like runners are notorious for this. We run, and don’t stop. If you have pain, play it safe, rest. Don’t do what I did.

Second, follow the 10% rule. Increase total mileage and daily miles by 10%, this allows your body to adjust to the stress that is put on it.