Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Why Do Injuries Improve When You Run ? Any ideas ?

The body is a strange and unpredictable thing. Im trying to work out some strange happenings with mine ?

Why does my sore ankle get better when I run ?
How much of pain is real vs psychological ?
Is there a link between worrying your injured and being hypervigilant and careful leading to more injury ?

I hurt my ankle again slightly today running hills and tried an experiment. Later in the day I stopped off at an oval on my way to pick up the kids and ran round it once...hey presto..no more pain...what the ?...how come..am I stretching it....are the remnants of an injury tightness ?

Any thoughts?

2 comments:

  1. Just as you don't believe your crazy, same thing happens to me. The quandry is - how do you know when you need to take it easy / or to give it a go to see if its healed?

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  2. wierd? my soultion has been to just run and if it hurts stop...i fond myself test8ing it in the shops, up the stairs at home, at my kids school (when noones looking)

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