[at-l] Tendonitis (status)

[Nightwalker]

I lost my entire Spring hiking season this year with it. It really sucked.

And someone please tell me that Flix is not really 56 years old?!?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sloetoe" <sloetoe at yahoo.com>
To: "JPL" <jplynch at crosslink.net>; <at-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Tendonitis (status)


> --- JPL <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:
> 
>> My tendonitis seems to be getting marginally better,
>> but very slowly.
> ### Yeah, as was posted, this stuff takes a *really*
> long time to recover, even when it's quick. Sheesh.
> 
>> I 
>> still can't push off on the ball of my foot.  A
>> small "knot" has developed 
>> on the tendon,
> ### Probably the rip your MD want to MRI. It'll look
> like frayed rope. Ewwwww.
> 
>> and the pain has migrated upward a
>> bit, away from where the 
>> tendon joins the heel (I'm guess about this
>> 'migration'; its hard to tell).
> ### The pain might too be new muscular stresses, as
> healing and muscle elongation change where/how
> friction points are. Dynamic little devil.
> 
>> I can walk but with a limp.  I'm not doing any
>> hiking, but just everyday 
>> walking, about 4-5000 steps a day.
> ### Hopefully in low or no-heeled shoes. Shoe heels
> are evil.
> 
>> My doctor now wants me to have an MRI, 
>> thinking that there is a small tear in the tendon.
> ### That knotty thing. OOo! Google "cross-fiber
> massage."
> 
>> I use heat and cold packs, and gently stretch the
> tendon several times a day.
> ### You're stretching the muscle, not the tendon.
> (Which is good.) Cool the tendon (deflamatory), heat
> the muscle (relaxing and lengthening)...
> 
>> Thanks for all the input.
> ### I know patience was mentioned, right?
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