It has been a week now since I first felt pain on the outer-side of my lower shin/front ankle area.
I didn't have a definitive incident which caused the pain, it just started hurting during my run last Friday. On Saturday afternoon I tried running again, making it 3 or so miles before I had to stop with much more discomfort than the previous day.
Yesterday after work, and after 5 days of no running, I decided to test it out on the soft-cushy track. It wasn't a good sign that I could feel pain just walking the slight incline up to the track, but I decided to try it out anyway. I jogged super slow and felt discomfort immediately.... making it a whopping 100yds. Suck suck sucky suckfest!
I have been on-line doing a little detective work, and I believe it might have something to do with my Anterior Tibial Tendon Sheath? My symptoms are right on spot with the ones on the internet below:
Symptoms include:
- Pain when you bend your foot and toes up.
- Swelling and redness over the front of the ankle where the tendon is.
- If you push your fingers into the tendon you can sometimes feel a creaking when you move the foot up and down.
I have an appointment on Tuesday with my Primary Care and I'm looking to get a referral to the Sports Medicine guru in my area. I'm obviously bummed to not be running, but this particular go around with injury, I want to cross-train and keep some level of fitness going. I just went up to the "Workout Room" here @ work and tried the Elliptical.... ouch! Too much flexing of the foot. The Stationary Bike felt fine though.... I'm not a stranger to weight training either, so we'll see if I get more ripped than I already am. Ha ha!
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