After speaking with my coaches.. Ruthie has me on a day to day basis pending approval from Dr Dec. Amazingly I was able to land a 2:00 p.m. appointment to get it looked at. I wouldnt normally go to the doctor this soon for a muscle injury but ive got too much invested to not do everything in my power to get this calf worked out. Further details to follow. Dr
Dec with CJW Sports Medicine was able to squeeze me in today. She
noticed several muscular issues (tight hamstrings, tight calf’s and some
tenderness
in some tendons that I cant pronounce.. she also said my right ankle
isn’t performing 100 percent).. all of which when combined are probably
related to Saturday’s cramping session.
Her
course of action for today was to put an orthotic in my shoe and give
me a laser treatment to speed the recovery in the calf. She wants me to
run one
mile tomorrow with the orthotic to see if the calf will loosen up. If
it does then I will probably go on a reduced mileage week at least until
after the weekend (she mentioned running half my normal weekend
miles). She also mentioned getting me a gait analysis
and probably starting some physical therapy to address the root cause
of a potential alignment problem.
I
think all in all its probably good news.. I highly doubt she would let
me run at all so soon if she truly thought I was severely injured.
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