Archive for September, 2008
More on my hamstring
I’m so immersed in my own little world of running injury that most of the time I can’t think of anything I would rather talk about than my hamstring. My husband is ready to chop my leg off. My non-running friends have stopped asking me about it and now politely shut me up with some question [...]
Read More..>>The List
There is an approach in cognitive behavior therapy that is premised on the theory that human behavior is based on adaptation. To give a simplistic example (sorry if I offend anyone for ignoring the complexity of this theory), this approach suggests that, for example, people often stay in destructive relationships because over a given period of [...]
Read More..>>Sometimes, there just aren’t enough hours in the day…
It seems that the older you get, the more useless stuff you have to deal with on a daily basis. It just creeps in there and the next thing you know, you’re spending hours attending to stuff that before seemed trivial - at best. So, amid the too many non-essential things I have packed into each day already, [...]
Read More..>>Oh yeah, the MRI is my friend!!
I got the results this morning of Tuesday’s MRI on my hip. No stress fracture. Whew! The old injury to my hamstring/glutes/groin apparently had involved two partial tears and what showed up on the xray was the scarring on the bone. Apparently, I have had some residual flexibility problems and right-sided strength deficit from that [...]
Read More..>>Update on my cross-training life
So, here’s the injury update: I’m very grumpy. My three hour “long run” on the elliptical this morning was, well, not the same as running outside! I’m tempted to sneak out there and do just a little jogging, you know.
I’m actually working really hard on the elliptical, the stretching and strength work, the deep tissue massage. [...]
A Runner’s Greatest Fear: Injured
Ugh, yikes, darn, argh! So, I finally went to the Sports Medicine Clinic at Duke this morning. After about four weeks of right hip pain, I broke down and went in. When Dr. Bytomski came in and said, “come out here and look at this x-ray,” I felt the lump in my throat. Of course, being [...]
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