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It depends. With ibuprofen in particular, the anti-inflammatory properties are beneficial. Initially inflammation is important for healing an injury, but too much inflammation is detrimental. Based on that I prefer to take ibuprofen if the inflammation persists, but not immediately after getting the injury.
Pain killers can also indirectly contribute to ...
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Many people make the mistake in running that they think it's ok to just go out and run, without any base training. This misconception leads to a lot of injuries. My LONG run for the entire week is 10ish miles, and that's when I'm running between 30-40 miles/week.
If you don't have a lot of base, then 10 miles twice a week is not what I would recommend. ...
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Here is some of the the best available evidence regarding knee problems and osteoarthritis (OA):
Virtually all activities require weight bearing will put stress on the knee joints
Activities and sports that will put more stress on the knees are (football, jumping, long distance running, soccer, and any other sports that require constant cutting, pivoting ...
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You can do sit-ups isolating the one leg which you have injured. Planks might help you a little but they are not all that challenging for the abs area after one moment onwards.
The only exercise that I can think of right now that will completely isolate your knee(and is not very advanced) is the dragon flag. It got popular thanks to bruce lee who ...
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The doctor said ... that I would recover 100% movement of the joint.
In the context of your question, this provides us with little help. The fact that you will, at some point, fully recover is not to say that you are fully recovered as of this present moment. In fact, considering that your original question included the wording "my wrist still feels ...
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"Proper running form" is much more comprehensive than just the foot strike. Running with a fore/mid/heel strike are all valid IF you're not suffering as a result and the rest of your mechanics are sound. Focusing on foot strike alone will not yield a more efficient run. It is my opinion (after several years of running and trial and error) that getting your ...
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What you need is a rehab program to get you back to good shape, followed by a proper program to prevent the condition from happening again. I have to qualify my answer by the fact I am not a physical therapist, and I highly recommend you see one.
In general, rehab programs involve ridiculously light weight with ridiculously high repetitions. You will be ...
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Calf tenderness is a common occurrence with barefoot/minimalist running. The achilles is in the back of the leg, from the knee to the back of the heel. It is NOT a shock absorber, but is a stabilizing muscle and propulsing muscle. It works harder when one runs barefoot.
Barefoot running is something that needs to be very gradually introduced into a ...
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I am an active duty Marine and following an injury and MRI that revealed a completely torn ACL, torn MCL, and bilateral miniscal tear, I was back to working out my leg within roughly 2 months. By the way, I was in Afghanistan 3.5 weeks following the tear. It was a slow process and incremental in nature, but effective. To the root of your question though, ...
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Squatting actually helped me recover the normal use of my leg. I tore my ACL 10 years ago and suffered a failed autograft surgery where the surgeon cut out the middle 1/3 of my patella tendon and used that as the acl replacement.
The surgery failed and my knee cap shifted out-of-place because of the cut petella tendon. After 10 years, I was suffering from ...
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You are wise to ask because this is an injury that you want to heal well. 3 weeks is not very long into the healing of a fracture.
Most references that I looked up tell you that your therapist will direct your safe return to activity. A PT (physical therapist) or OT (occupational therapist) who specialize in hands (hand therapist) are the best ones to ...
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I actually run in vibrams, and when I first began my calves were extremely sore for the first week or two. I think this is due mostly to the fact barefoot running forces people to run as nature intended, on the ball of the foot, causing the calf to work harder in order to support the weight. This would also put more tension on the Achilles tendon since it ...
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There are times in our training where you have to train around injuries. This is not bad, just a fact of life. Will you lose some strength and progress? Yes. There's no way around that. However, a small injury will become a big one one if you don't let your body heal.
I recommend letting your torn facia heal. You can focus on other things at the ...
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To quote William Roberts, MD sports medicine physician at the University of Minnesota,
“Muscle fatigue takes away all your protective mechanisms and really increases your risk of all injuries.”
Granted he was referring to specifically athletes and sports-related injuries in his quote, but I feel there is enough parallel here to apply the advice to ...
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I squat and deadlift 600 pounds 10 years after a failed ACL reconstruction. I experience minimal issues while weight lifting heavy 3-5 days/week. (The lack of the ACL never causes me problems. My knee's stable during the exercises. But my failed surgery was a patellar autograft. The graft harvest caused my patella to move, and the poor patellar tracking that ...
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In short, the answer is no, there aren't really any good cardio exercises that are upper body only and don't involve the legs without the knees.
To understand, you need to know the structure of the knee, but suffice to say that there are tendons that go through the knee area and encapsulate the patella (kneecap) and there are ligaments that hold the knee ...
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I hope that your knee issues have gotten better. However, there are a few things that can cause knee pains on a bike.
Seat height - Having a seat that is way too high or low can place odd stresses on the knees, and if it is too high, can also cause hip issues because you have to "rock" back and forth on the seat to stay on the pedals. A good bike fit can ...
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Do controlled exercises until you can get your injured wrist back to the same, or very close to, strength and range of motion of your uninjured wrist. Do light activity that gets you back into using your injured wrist - that could be as simple as playing video games or music for 10-15 minutes, cooking food, kneading bread (if you don't make your own bread, ...
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Had a very very similar injury. Was running for months in the Vibrams and then all of a sudden had similar pain. Probably because I increased the mileage too fast week to week, from about 20 to then 25mi/week.
Diagnosis ended up being an inflammation and to just rest and take prednisolone (pill form) for 2 weeks. Almost no improvement in 4-5 days, and ...
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Bogdanovist,
Read this article as it will give you the best evidence based research about your question and a treatment plan.
If you can have access to a PT near by, I strongly suggest you to go see one. Make sure a PT is experience with sports injuries. Real quick tips to get back on your feet fast:
Get a deep tissue massage.
Perform eccentric ...
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It should go without saying: consult your doctor and physical therapist.
That being said, you should make a point to avoid high-impact activities which aggravate your knee. These can vary depending on your injury, but are typically exercises like running, stairs, squats, deep lunges, and box jumps.
For doing cardio you want to keep it low-impact, and to ...
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I strongly suggest AGAINST working on one arm only. It will only make a bigger disproportion between your arms. One arm would get a workout and improve from its current state, while the other would get weaker because of the immobility causet by the fracture.
Take it easy, give yourself a break and dont do any training with one arm that cant be accomplished ...
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Mike Reinold is the sports Physical Therapist for this - check out "Solving the Patellofemoral Mystery" for a starting point. It leads you to seven heavy duty articles aimed at PTs in clinical practice. It might encourage you to seek out professional guidance as an informed client who can actively participate in his own recovery. Don't forget that in ...
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Sore is a bit too general, and the advice will differ based on the type of pain:
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS): general soreness experienced when you increase the intensity, volume, or type of exercise. Can be ignored and will generally go as you train.
Back pump: feels like the lower back is pumped up. This can be very uncomfortable, but the pain ...
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I'd say this is probably one of the few instances in which using isolation exercises on machines is good. It's not something you'd want to make a habit of, but doing a leg press instead of a squat to keep working your legs would make sense, and one of those tricep machines that lets you push against a pad with your arm instead of gripping something would ...
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Just curious, why was surgery to repair the tendon not an option?
As far as working out, I wouldn't worry about that too much, because that's a short term thing, unless you have a specific event (Your 'A' race for the season or something) that you are training for.
8 weeks is transitory, and yes, you might lose some fitness or a bit of muscle size during ...
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You don't state what activity you do as a primary one. That will have a bearing on what you can/should be doing with the wrist. Every sport is going to have it's risks while still healing.
For instance, running you could fall, swimming is obviously out, same with cycling unless you're in aero bars on a TT bike.
There's nothing to say that you can't get ...
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