Saturday, April 19, 2008

A Medical Update


A Medical Update


First of all, for those of you who actually look at the blog, you'll see a few changes...namely the live blogroll that shows the last 5 posts from people on my blog roll...if you don't see your blog, let me know and I'll add you! :)

So as far as the medical stuff, this year has been challenging from the injury point of view (fortunately no major illnesses although my daughter has had a fever for days :( )

I hurt my back snowboarding at the end of Feb, and it took me about 4 weeks of physical therapy to recover from that. But then as I got better, I started running a lot more, and now I've been diagnosed with Achilles Insertional Calcific Tendonitis. This is causing me a lot of pain in the back of my heel, and some days I can barely run. (no that's not my foot)



So now I'm doing a couple of things for therapy:
  • Wearing a foot splint at night
  • Ultrasound therapy
  • Ice massage (stick your leg into an icy glacial stream for full effect)
  • Eccentric Loading for my calf















2 comments:

  1. Hi! New look is great. My computer seems to be cutting off the ends of all your profundities though. Hope the heel gets better soon.

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  2. Yeah I don't have it quite right yet. Maybe I need to make it narrower...did you get the laptop you wanted?

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