Medial tibial stress syndrome is an overuse injury that causes pain along the medial lower third of the tibia bone. It is usually very tender to palpation along the edges of the bone. There are a number of hypothesis as to what causes medial tibial...
Medial tibial stress syndrome is an overuse injury that is common in runners. The pain from this is usually felt when you run the finger and press hard down the inside of the tibial bone. The actual pathology is unclear as it probably varies from...
Maximalist running shoes are those running shoes that are super cushioned and have a large stack height with plenty of midsole material. Who should wear them? Anyone who feels like running in them. Despite the fanatical fan boys who liked to promote...
They don’t do anything expect lighten your wallet and take up room in your shoe. There are no health benefits from wearing magnetic insoles despite what those who sell them like to claim. The research evidence does not back up the claims that...
They don’t work. Don’t be gullible. Don’t fall for them. There are no health benefits from wearing magnetic insoles. All sorts of nonsensical claims about them affecting energy balance (what ever that is), pain relief and improving...
There is only one way to treat a calcaneal stress fracture and that is to get off it. You have to rest, you have to stop running or stop what ever activity you were doing that caused the stress fracture. If its really painful, you may even need to...
Calcaneal stress fractures can take a while to get back to full activity – count on it taking months and not weeks. To start with you are probably going to need up to 2-3 weeks without any or very reduced weightbearing activity for the initial...
A stress fracture occurs when the repetitive loads on a bone exceed what the bone can take, so a small crack or fracture develops in the bone. It can happen in any bone, but is more likely to happen in bones that get put under a lot of stress. The...
The pain for a calcaneal stress fracture can be anywhere in the calcaneus or heel bone. The most common site for the pain is when you squeeze both sides of the heel bone and the pain can be quite exquisite and that is in the bone just below the...
The calcaneal squeeze test is when you apply pressure with your hand to both sides of the calcaneus or heel bone and squeeze it. If doing that elicits symptoms, then you have a ‘positive calcaneal squeeze test’. This means that you...
