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** I'm not asking for medical advice. I've been checked out and am going to physio. I would like to hear from others who've dealt with this, thanks!**
I'm currently dealing with microtears in my achilles, and it's healing much slower than my physio and I expected. It's not from any one incident in particular, it started hurting when I was tumbling and got worse instead of better a couple days after. I want to be really, really careful because I'm terrified of rupturing it, but I'm at a loss as to what else I can be doing. I'm stretching my calf and achilles 3x a day, only doing bars with mats for soft landings, going to physio 2x a week and not doing any other activity except low-impact dance class once a week. It's been 3 weeks so far. Has anyone else dealt with this before? How long did you find it took you/your gymnast to heal? Were you ever able to return to full tumbling?
The other thing that's been bothering me are inflamed popliteus tendons behind my knees, particularly when I "absorb" deep in a landing or push off in an "explosive manner" (if that makes any sense). It's mostly a problem in front handspring front tucks if I'm not perfectly tight coming out of the handspring, and for high landings like off bars. I haven't been tumbling or running for at least 3 weeks now and it still hurts to "push off" like if I skip steps running up the stairs, or "absorb" when running/walking down a hill. Aside from physio I don't know what to do. My knees hyperextend so stretching behind the knee to reduce the muscle tension just makes it worse. Physio helps but the effects don't last unless I stop all activity, and then the pain comes back the minute I run or tumble again.
I'm 21 and only training 4 hours a week at a drop-in class (I'm level 5/6 so it's not like I'm doing crazy skills), and I just feel like my body is falling apart. I'm supposed to run a half-marathon at the end of May and now I'm worried that's not going to happen
I also tend to tumble with my feet turned out so I'm assuming that doesn't help the ankle/knee situation.
Thanks for letting me go on and on, congrats if you've made it this far! I would really appreciate any advice anyone can give me, and if you/your gymmie has dealt with this and you could let me know how it turned out that would be terrific![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I'm currently dealing with microtears in my achilles, and it's healing much slower than my physio and I expected. It's not from any one incident in particular, it started hurting when I was tumbling and got worse instead of better a couple days after. I want to be really, really careful because I'm terrified of rupturing it, but I'm at a loss as to what else I can be doing. I'm stretching my calf and achilles 3x a day, only doing bars with mats for soft landings, going to physio 2x a week and not doing any other activity except low-impact dance class once a week. It's been 3 weeks so far. Has anyone else dealt with this before? How long did you find it took you/your gymnast to heal? Were you ever able to return to full tumbling?
The other thing that's been bothering me are inflamed popliteus tendons behind my knees, particularly when I "absorb" deep in a landing or push off in an "explosive manner" (if that makes any sense). It's mostly a problem in front handspring front tucks if I'm not perfectly tight coming out of the handspring, and for high landings like off bars. I haven't been tumbling or running for at least 3 weeks now and it still hurts to "push off" like if I skip steps running up the stairs, or "absorb" when running/walking down a hill. Aside from physio I don't know what to do. My knees hyperextend so stretching behind the knee to reduce the muscle tension just makes it worse. Physio helps but the effects don't last unless I stop all activity, and then the pain comes back the minute I run or tumble again.
I'm 21 and only training 4 hours a week at a drop-in class (I'm level 5/6 so it's not like I'm doing crazy skills), and I just feel like my body is falling apart. I'm supposed to run a half-marathon at the end of May and now I'm worried that's not going to happen
Thanks for letting me go on and on, congrats if you've made it this far! I would really appreciate any advice anyone can give me, and if you/your gymmie has dealt with this and you could let me know how it turned out that would be terrific