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A full analysis of 21 different Golfers Elbow treatments and exercises which work to cure your pain which to avoid and which are Dangerous What is ASTYM therapy and how it helps your soft tissue injuries heal. Foot Fight A minimalist runners road to recovery. How my posterior tibial tendon dysfunction could have been avoided, and why it dont always gotta be the shoes. My feet used to be awesome. After nearly two years of strong, minimalist running, they developed nice high arches, flexible toes and could happily handle all the bludgeoning that endurance and strength training threw their way. Running used to be my strongest sport, and when I registered for Ironman AZ 2. I was so jacked up to go out and dominate that I could barely sleep in the days that followed. Excited, I kept training hard, set the course for the coming year and started to design my training plan. But now, only a few months later, everything has changed. My left foot is injured, deformed and sad. The right one is bored, both are weak and I havent run in over a month. What happened The short answer is that my left foot which suffered a stress fractures last year wasnt ready to handle the long distances of the Ragnar Del Sol race. Its misaligned and primarily hindered by posterior tibial tendonitis and dysfunction. Many would argue that my injury isnt surprising, considering my minimalist footwear. However, its not the minimalist shoes fault. And to understand why, youll need to see the context of my injury and how Im planning on overcoming it. To start, lets take a look at how we got to this point. My Running Timeline Around age 3 My first memory and first taste of a running high doing laps around the backyard, I look up at the stars and feel a calm awesomeness. Footwear Probably plastic sandals. Age 3 to 1. 5 Grow to love baseball, and then basketball. These sports are the hub of my physical activity and life. Any running is a result of either practice or games. Footwear Anything Nike Nikes marketing of the Air Jordans weighed heavily on my young, impressionable mind. I developed a basketball shoe addiction, highlighted by a messy temper tantrum in Foot Locker for a pair of the Air Jordan 6s. I would beg my mom for new mostly unnecessary basketball shoes every six months. High School Despite hours of unproductive weightlifting bordering on being that guy at the gym I learn proper running form through a great strength and conditioning coach. The key points land on the balls of your feet, foot lands under the hip, nose over toes, steady, relaxed head, arms at 9. Footwear Clunky basketball shoes. College to mid 2. Exercise isnt a big part of my life. The only running occurs when Im late for class or about to miss happy hour. Footwear Dont recall. Mid 2. 0s Start doing Crossfit workouts and going on a handful of three mile runs throughout the week. Footwear Standard white guy New Balance running shoes. Late 2. 0s Read the book Born to Run and drink the barefoot Kool Aide gross. I turn to Converse All Stars a few times a week as my first set of minimalist running shoes. After a few months, they become my everyday running shoes. Footwear Nike Free Converse All Stars. Age 2. 9 Nov. 2. Complete my first triathlon Bluewater in 3 0. Footwear Converse All Stars. Age 2. 9 Jan March 2. Slowly transition from the Cons to Vibram Five. Fingers VFF. After three months of easing into it, Im a full time, pseudo barefoot runner. My toes feel like fingers, my arches are high and I never want to wear another running shoe again. Footwear VFF KSOAge 2. Mid March 2. 01. My first running injury At the beginning of a six mile, night time run along a dirt path in VFF, my left foot slams down on a big rock. It stops me in my tracks, but I stubbornly, stupidly, keep running. On the same run, just before returning home, I jam my left big toe into the pavement. I know its bad, but the pain is just beginning. Footwear VFF KSOAge 2. April 2. 01. 2 Despite the injured left foot, I complete the Lavaman Olympic Triathlon in 2 4. I can barely walk after the race and know itll be a long road back. Footwear Converse All Stars. Age 2. 9 April 2. MRI confirms a stress fracture of the second metatarsal. I wear a walking boot for six weeks. When the podiatrist discharges me, he doesnt recommend physical therapy. In the same hurried breathe, he suggests orthotics and more stabilizing footwear. I explain my preference for minimalist running, and he quickly shrugs it off. After seeing how flat my left foot has become since wearing the boot, I ask for a prescription for physical therapy. He obliges scribbling on auto pilot and scurries off to his next surely nonplussed patient. Footwear Walking boot. Age 2. 9 May 2. 01. Physical therapist actually listens and appreciates my allegiance to the barefoot philosophy. We work together for about eight weeks to slowly strengthen my left foot, leg, knee and hips. Despite our strategy to go the natural route, with the goal of getting back to barefoot running, her boss storms over on day 2 to sell orthotics which makes the clinic more monies after a one minute assessment of my foot and leg, he dumps a bucket of big words and medical jargon at me, shoots from the hip, and vehemently recommends orthotics. I tell him that Ive read a lot on the topic, and would rather try the natural route first. If it doesnt solve our problem, I say, orthotics can be the backup. He backs down and after a couple months I am running again, and working out full force, pain free, without orthotics. In the end, my trainer agrees the natural route was the right call. Footwear Saucony cross country racing flats with VFF sprinkled in. Age 3. 0 November 2. Complete Lake Havasu City Olympic Triathlon in 2 5. Footwear Saucony cross country racing flats. Age 3. 0 February 2. Run over 2. 0 miles in about 3. Ragnar del Sol Relay. Arch collapses on left foot during my second leg, and the rest of the race is a painful grind. The inside of my left ankle swells up and hurts with every step I shift the weight balance to deal with the pain, only to develop an ache on the outside of the left foot later on. A great time, but a major setback after the race my foot is swollen, disturbingly flat and visibly misaligned. Its clear my footleg had not built up enough strength to support that distance. Back to physical therapy I go. Footwear Saucony cross country racing flats. Age 3. 0 Early March 2. Go to a new sports therapy clinic recommended by friends and family. Theyre sympathetic to my situation and not hell bent on selling orthotics. Therapy includes many variations of balancing, stretching and strengthening exercises, along with ASTYM, ultrasound and even needling. We are making progress, pain is subsiding, but its a long slow road. Footwear Nike Free. Age 3. 0 Mid March 2. Consult my second podiatrist, primarily for a routine administrative matter, and secondarily for a second opinion on the condition of my foot, and thoughts on my hopes for minimalist running. He said my Posterior Tibial Tendon is diseased and needs to heal completely before I run again, or I risk more complications down the line. All make sense to me. But then I hear that magic word again orthotics. I question that tactic and he defensively snaps back, Would you rather have surgery instead I tune out the next few minutes of his monologue something about literature showing injuries in minimalist runners, and chalk another one up on the big board for closed minded, orthotic salesman doctors. American Horror Story Season 1 Sub Thai more.