Ok so yesterday was 4 weeks from my injury. I haven't worked out in 4 weeks!!!!!! :(((
I have only been able to do some situps and pushups but believe it or not you sort of use your calf for those too ( when you tighten up to go down on a pushup or to come up on a situp) so I am extremely frustrated. I also am starting to gain a pound here and there which is making me even crazier. I was doing amazing!! Weight was melting off, saw a great gain in muscle and my cardio was ridiculous. Now i have to start all over. Whenever the start will be I have no idea. I can finally walk 98% pain free. Can stretch the calf as much as my "good" one but definitely feel major weakness in the injured calf. I start PT on wednesday which will be 1 month to the day of injury. I hope the rest of the healing is speedier than it has been so far. I'm thinking i may be half way to recovery. ( When i say recovery i mean be able to do MMA 4 days a week like i was and playing soccer at least 3 days a week. Not recovery like walking.) I am afraid to try to run or even lightly jog. Last time i had something like this I re injured it like i posted in older posts and I do not want to slow down the healing at all. Considering it popped again 21 days in. ( almost a week ago) I have to say the fact that I used the R.I.C.E "technique" helped a lot but i think just as important was taking a good protein shake through the first 2/3 weeks of my injury and liquid amino acid supplements with Ibuprophen the first 7/8 days.
Anyway, hope i have better news in my next post.
DL
3 comments:
Well, you already know that I feel your pain :-) Thanks for the link on my sparkpage :-)
I can see you're getting antsy, but seriously, you gotta keep on chillin'. I still worry every day when I'm out on that tennis court that I'll re-injure my leg. Mine was a year ago August, and I took till just before Thanksgiving of last year off to heal. I SLOWLY worked back into my tennis routine (daily habit...) and was only playing LIGHT tennis, easy clinics, etc. through January. In January, I started getting out 2-3 days a week, and then probably about February started going 4 days. Over the summer, I had a little "set back" - nothing re-injured, just more and more little weird aches, tight muscles, etc. so I backed off again. I'm back to 5+ days a week, 3+ hours some of those days, and it's SO WONDERFUL! I'll never forget the horror of being laid up, the pain - mental and physical.
Another girl at the club recently tore her calf muscle, and I called her immediately. I sent her every link, etc. I could find that I'd used. I felt HORRIBLE for her.
I'll look forward to reading more on your recovery. Thanks for sharing, and HANG IN THERE! :-)
THANKS!!!
Hope you heal up soon.I thought i had torn mine but think it was only a strain , but was very painful and was limping for a week , have just started taking ibuprofen tablets and ketoprofum gel , feels a lot better now, hope i will be ok soon.
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